Release Date: 30 April 2005
Label: Marco Polo
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 636943530429
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: KLEBE
Description
Giselher Klebe (b. 1925)Music for ViolinGiselher Klebe was born in Mannheim in 1925 and in1940 entered the Berlin Conservatory with ascholarship, studying the violin, viola and musichistory, and composition with Kurt von Wolfurt. Heresumed his studies after the war as a pupil of JosefRufer at the newly founded Berlin International MusicInstitute, and, privately, with Boris Blacher. HisDivertimento, Op. 1/2, for piano, had its firstperformance in 1947, the year of his first meeting withthe composer Wolfgang Fortner, whom he succeededten years later as senior lecturer in composition andmusic theory at the Detmold North-West GermanMusic Academy. He became a professor at theAcademy in 1962. By this time he had establishedhimself as a composer, with works performed atDarmstadt and at Donaueschingen and notable successin 1950 with his orchestral Zwitschermaschine,described as a musical metamorphosis for full orchestraand inspired by Paul Klee's The Twittering Machine.He won various awards and became one of the mostimportant contemporary composers of opera inGermany, with a series of works, first with his ownlibretti and then with texts by his wife Lore Klebe,generally based on existing literary works. Over theyears he has won great distinction, with further prizewinningcompositions and public honours. In 1981 hebecame director of the music section of the BerlinAcademy of Arts, of which he served as president from1986 until 1989.Klebe's Sonata No. 1, Op. 8, for solo violin, waswritten in the summer of 1950 in Berlin-Frohnau, anddedicated, in gratitude, to Hans Werner Henze, who hadrecommended his orchestral piece The TwitteringMachine to the then director of the DonaueschingenFestival, Heinrich Strobel. It was performed at thefestival in the same year by the South-West RadioSymphony Orchestra under Hans Rosbaud, aperformance that brought Klebe's internationalbreakthrough. The Sonata marks the first stages ofdevelopment of his musical language. Both movementsare linked by rhythmic-formal structures. Klebe's beliefin the unifying function of melody is a continuingfeature of his work.Sonata No. 1, Op. 14, for violin and piano, waswritten in autumn 1952 and dedicated to the Alsatianpoet Rene Schickele (1883-1941), with whose workKlebe at the time had particular affinity. The three shortmovements are played without a break, the ostinatomotif groups and development of the first movementundergoing intensive changes in the second, with itsnew patterns, taking the form of several melodic archforms in the third.Dedicated to his wife, Klebe's Sonata No. 2, Op.20, for solo violin, was commissioned by Darmstadt forthe Tenth International Vacation Courses for NewMusic in 1955. It was written between January andMarch in that year, under the strong influence ofHaydn's Symphony No. 92 in G major, 'Oxford'. Thesonata has three movements. The first of these startswith an idea that is fundamental to the structure of thesonata. Its first pattern, double stops marked piano a
Tracklisting
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Wong On-Yuen/Hk Po/Wing-Sie
Wexford Opera
Vlach Quartet Prague
Various Artists
Tokyo Po/Kek-Tijang
The red Lantern occompanied by
Ten Classics for Chinese Bowed
David Darling
Various
Trio con Brio Copenhagen
Tagliaferri/Sciddurlo
Swr So Baden Freiburg
Seung-Yeun Huh
Oxford Girls Choir/Skinner
Monks Of Solesmes
