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Giselher Klebe

Giselher Wolfgang Klebe (28 June 19255 October 2009) was a German composer, and an academic teacher. He composed more than 140 works, among them 14 operas, all based on literary works, eight

Giselher Wolfgang Klebe (28 June 19255 October 2009) was a German composer, and an academic teacher. He composed more than 140 works, among them 14 operas, all based on literary works, eight symphonies, 15 solo concerts, chamber music, piano works, and sacred music. Biography Giselher Klebe was born in Mannheim, Germany. He received musical tuition early in his life from his mother, the violinist Gertrud Klebe. The family relocated in 1932 to Munich, where his mother’s sister, Melanie Michaelis, continued the training. His father’s profession required a further relocation in 1936 to Rostock. His first opera, based on Friedrich Schiller’s play Die Räuber (The Robbers), was produced in 1957. Works References Notes Sources *Erik Levi, “Klebe, Giselher”, in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London, 1992) * External links * Giselher-Klebe-Archiv, Archive of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin * “Giselher Klebe (1925–2009)”, Klassika * “Giselher Klebe_100, Festival zum 100. Geburtstag von Giselher Klebe in Detmold, vom 24.10. bis zum 14.12.2025”, program notes for the commemoration of Klebe’s 100th birthday, Christian Köhn, Detmold

Era
Post-War
Lived
1925–2009
From
Germany
Born in
Mannheim · died Detmold
Known as
composer, university teacher, music educator
Genres
opera

Contemporaries

Composers of the same nationality whose working lives overlapped — computed across all 11,984 dated composers in this library, not taken from any single article.