Spuren der Avantgarde

Known to many music lovers in East and West Germany for decades as an enthusiastic connoisseur and researcher of new music since Gustav Mahler, as a program designer for radio concerts and broadcasts, and as a permanent employee of music publishers, Eberhardt Klemm, born in Zwickau in 1928, was a striking and highly original personality until his death in June 1991. This naturally had an impact on his numerous works, which were to be published in a Reclam paperback during Klemm's lifetime. The turn of events in the 1980s and 1990s led to a book project by the Cologne-based music magazine publisher MusikTexte, which brings together Klemm's most important works in the broad field of musical thought, from Berlioz to minimal music. In his writings on the greats of the century, on Bartók, Mahler, Debussy, Schoenberg, on Ives, Varèse, Webern, and Berg, on Krenek and Eisler, and on the outsiders Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Satie, Zemlinsky, Scott Joplin, Carl Ruggles, and Stefan Wolpe, on music thinkers such as George Bernard Shaw, Ernst Bloch, and—if you will—Karl Valentin, about controversial performers such as Hermann Scherchen and the brilliant Leipzig pianist Manfred Reinelt, who took his own life after finding that there was no longer even a minimal space for him to survive in the GDR, a panorama of rare diversity becomes comprehensible.

This book, produced with the support of the Kulturfonds Foundation, is an extraordinarily vital document of what gradually prevailed—despite all the isolation in the music scene of the GDR—not least thanks to the tireless mediation work of a few highly knowledgeable professional music experts who were persistent in their own way, such as Eberhardt Klemm.

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