Wilhelm Klatte

Certificate of the Stern Conservatory from the year 1920 with the signature of Wilhelm Klatte (right)

Wilhelm Klatte (13 February 1870 – 25 July 1930) was a German music theoretician, pedagogue, journalist and conductor.

Life

Born in Bremen, after studying music in Leipzig, Klatte began his professional career as a musician first at the Deutsches Nationaltheater und Staatskapelle Weimar with Richard Strauss. During this time he was also active as a conductor on various occasions. In 1897 he became the first music consultant at the Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger. From 1904 Klatte also taught music theory at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin, where he was appointed professor in 1919. His students there included Else Schmitz-Gohr. Since 1925 he had also held a teaching position for theory at the Royal Music Institute of Berlin.

Klatte also held several honorary posts. He was a member of the board of directors of the Allgemeiner Deutscher Musikverein (from 1909) and representative of the musical arts in the Vorläufiger Reichswirtschaftsrat [de] (from 1925).

Klatte died in Berlin at the age of 60.[1]

Work

  • Zur Geschichte der Programm-Musik,[2] 1905
  • Franz Schubert, 1907
  • Aufgaben für den einfachen Kontrapunkt,[3] 1915
  • Grundlagen des mehrstimmigen Satzes (Harmonielehre),[4] 1922
  • Das Sternsche Konservatorium der Musik zu Berlin,[5] 1925

Further reading

  • Hugo Riemann: Riemann Musiklexikon 11th edition, edited by Alfred Einstein. Max Hesse Verlag, Berlin 1929, p. 899
  • Wilhelm Kosch (edit.): Deutsches Theater-Lexikon. Volume II, Hurka–Pallenberg. De Gruyter, Berlin [among others.] 1960, p. 1007. ISBN 978-3-907820-28-5 (retrieved via De Gruyter Online).

References

  1. ^ Wilhelm Klatte on Geni
  2. ^ Zur Geschichte der Programm-Musik on WorldCat
  3. ^ Aufgaben für den einfachen Kontrapunkt on WorldCat
  4. ^ Grundlagen des mehrstimmigen Satzes (Harmonielehre) on WorldCat
  5. ^ Das Sternsche Konservatorium der Musik zu Berlin on WorldCat