Paul Kletzki, the composer, joined the Łódź Philharmonic Orchestra as a violinist at age fifteen, becoming its youngest member.
Composition History
A wooden chest containing Kletzki's published scores, which he thought destroyed, was rediscovered in 1965 and returned to him, but he was afraid to open it.
Compositional Technique
Kletzki's Third Symphony uses 'hysterically fleeing' fugues and a 'tragic dislocation' of a reversed recapitulation in its finale to represent the plight of the Jewish people and deform the German classical tradition.
Composer Biography
Kletzki's career as a composer in Germany was flourishing in the late 1920s, and he enjoyed the patronage of renowned musicians Arturo Toscanini and Wilhelm Furtwängler.
Composer's Artistic Vision
The Third Symphony's subtitle 'In memoriam' may refer to the victims of Nazism, including Kletzki's own family who were murdered in the Holocaust, or to the German art-music tradition he felt rejected by.
Composition History
Kletzki's music was "buried" for many years after the Nazis came to power, and he believed his pre-1933 output was destroyed during World War II.
Composition History
Kletzki's Third Symphony, 'In memoriam', completed in October 1939, is dedicated to Madame Olga Oboussier, who purchased music paper for him as a refugee.
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