Paul Kletzki

Paul Kletzki (at the origin Pawel Klecki) is a Leader and Compositeur Polish, naturalized Suisse, born with Lodz the March 21st 1900 and deceased in repetition of orchestra with Liverpool the March 5th 1973

Biography

It integrates the Orchestra of the Philharmonic society of Lodz, at the fifteen years age. It goes then to Warsaw, where it studies the violin with Emil Mlynarski with the National Academy. There, it also follows courses of philosophy. It joined Berlin in 1921 to complete its formation. Its talents of type-setter will be encouraged and constant by Toscanini, then by Furtwängler which will even enable him to direct the famous Philharmonic orchestra of Berlin in 1925. But the policy anti-semite of the leaders German national-Socialists will force it to leave Berlin. Begin for him one period from successive emigrations: in Italy, he teaches the composition with Milan, but the mode mussolinien of fascistic obedience causes, again, its departure towards the Soviet Union. There too, it cannot live there without fear, taking into account the policy of Great Terror started by Stalin since 1936. Kletzki will settle, ultimately, in Switzerland.

Paul Kletzki had real gifts of type-setter: its moving Third Symphony “In Memoriam” , completed in October 1939, is a perfect example. This work pays homage to the victims of the Holocauste. Kletzki, like many its compatriots, lost most of its family in the death camps Nazis. As from 1942, it ceases composing, asserting that the Nazisme had destroyed its spiritual faculties and its creative capacity.

Post-war period, it will reach, however, the fame thanks to its capacities of leader. It will direct the Symphony orchestra of Dallas between 1958 and 1961, then the Orchestre of the French-speaking Switzerland, founded by Ansermet, of 1967 to 1970.

Repertory

Kletzki defended, with constancy, the symphonies of Sibelius and Mahler, at one time when those had not yet completely convinced the public. It leaves, with the head Czech Philharmonie, a recording of the symphonies of Beethoven, marked by the preoccupation of objectivity and a clearness in detail.

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