Name Paul Klenau | Role Composer | |
Died August 31, 1946, Copenhagen, Denmark | ||
Paul von klenau symphony no 9 1945
Paul August von Klenau (11 February 1883 – 31 August 1946) was a Danish-born composer who worked primarily in Germany and Austria.
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- Paul von klenau symphony no 9 1945
- Paul von klenau 1883 1946 symphony no 7 storm symphony 1941
- Selected Works
- References
Klenau was born and died in Copenhagen. His teachers included Otto Malling, Max Bruch, Ludwig Thuille and Max von Schillings.
Klenau was among Arnold Schoenberg's advocates during the 1920s, and Schoenberg attended a concert of his music conducted by Klenau in 1923 in Freiburg.
Also according to Schoenberg, Klenau once defended his use of the twelve-tone technique as the basis of an opera (Klenau's output includes three twelve-tone-based operas in all, the first from 1932–33) as an example of National Socialist art, making an analogy of the row with the leader that everything else in the piece needed to follow. (This, and a political analogy made by Socialist composers, Schoenberg equally derided as "nonsense." He refers to Klenau as "the German composer, Paul von Klenau".)
Klenau's musical output, some of which is undergoing recording revival, includes nine symphonies, three string quartets, and a setting (1919) of Rainer Maria Rilke's "Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke" among other works.