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Paul Kletzki (born Paweł Klecki; 21 March 1900 – 5 March 1973) was a Polish conductor and composer.
EMI’s inclusion of Paul Kletzki among the elite podium masters represented in its Great Conductors of the 20th Century series surely is one of its odder choices, but forgivable if it helps generate interest in one of the fine second-tier conductors of the 1950s and 1960s.
In the Eighth’s first movement, Kletzki points up the debt owed to Beethoven by today’s jazz and rock musicians: the original funky bass line. He also shows how Beethoven’s antiphonal effects in the Ninth’s first movement lead right to the manuscripts of Anton Bruckner. But Kletzki acts as more than just an illuminator.
Those who have taken up the challenge to record the complete cycle include the Polish-born conductor Paul Kletzki, who gained great renown after thewar, primarily in America.
Paul Kletzki (1900-1973) was once a very promising composer and conductor, supported by Toscanini and Wilhelm Furtwängler, who had invited him to conduct the Berlin Philharmonic in 1925.
Paul Kletzki was born in Poland 100 years ago, and he enjoyed a conducting career that took him practically all around the world. He succeeded Ernest Ansermet as principal conductor of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, and earlier, he conducted the Dallas Symphony Orchestra for three seasons.
Mar 7, 1973 · LIVERPOOL, England, March 6—Paul Kletzki, the Polish‐born conductor, died in a hospital here last night after collapsing during a rehearsal with the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra for a...
Born in Łódź, Poland, on the 21st of March 1900, Paul Kletzki (the German spelling of his Polish name Paweł Klecki) was a Polish conductor and composer.
Feb 19, 2021 · Paul Kletzki (1900–1973) brings out the fundamental strangeness and feverish excitement of Schumann’s orchestral writing. His readings of these iconic works are key to understanding the path they have travelled towards the recognition they enjoy today.
May 29, 2017 · Died: March 5, 1973 - Liverpool, England. The distinguished Polish-born Swiss conductor and composer, Paul Kletzki (Born: Paweł Klecki in, he later adopted the German spelling), came from an upper middle-class Polish-Jewish family in Łódž.
