Eberhard Kloke
*24 November 1948
Works by Eberhard Kloke
Biography
Born in Hamburg in 1948, Eberhard Kloke began his career as a répètiteur and conductor in Mainz, Darmstadt, Düsseldorf and Lübeck, before he was appointed General Music Director in Ulm in 1980. He took on the same position in Freiburg/Breisgau in 1983.
Kloke was General Music Director of the Bochum Symphony Orchestra from 1988 to 1994, also leading the Nuremberg Opera and the Nuremberg Philharmonic Orchestra from 1993 to 1998. He was awarded the German Critics’ Prize in 1990.
Kloke’s artistic work centres above all on modern music and realising new conceptual approaches to music; in Freiburg, Bochum and Nuremberg he organised and conducted large-scale cycles of contemporary music programmes (the works performed including Götterdämmerung_Maßstab und Gemessenes, Jakobsleiter, Ein deutscher Traum, Aufbrechen America, Prometheus, Jenseits des Klanges). He has been living in Berlin
since 1998, working as a freelance conductor, project initiator and composer.
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Since 2002 Kloke has been published as a composer and arranger by Universal Edition (Vienna), since 2017 also by Schott-Music (Mainz), since 2018 by Sikorski (Hamburg) and since 2019 also by Boosey&Hawkes (New York-London-Berlin).
About the music
The works arranged by composer:
Béla Bartók
- Transkription of Bartóks Herzog Blaubarts Burg op. 11 (1911), transcription for small orchestra op. 2
Alban Berg
- Fünf Orchester-Lieder nach Ansichtskartentexten ive orchestral songs based on postcard texts by Peter Altenberg, op. 4 (1912) in an arrangement for soprano/mezzo-soprano and medium-sized orchestra by Eberhard Kloke, also version for chamber ensemble op. 21
- Complete arrangement of Alban Bergs opera Lulu (I, II, III) for soloists and chamber orchestra op. 13,
- also new version of III. Act (large orchestral version)
- Lulu_Bruchstücke123, transcription after Alban Berg's Lulu (1935) Newly selected and arranged for soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone and chamber orchestra op. 13a
- Sieben frühe Lieder, version for soprano and piano (1905-08) and version for large orchestra (1928)
- Arrangement for soprano and small orchestra by Eberhard Kloke
- Wozzeck-Bruchstücke Arrangement for soprano and small orchestra by Eberhard Kloke,
- Der Wein, concert aria for soprano/tenor and orchestra by Alban Berg (1929) based on texts by Charles Baudelaire (translated by Stefan George), arranged for soprano/tenor and chamber orchestra op. 9
- Wozzeck ©1926, Wien, arrangement for soloists and smal orchestra op. 7 by Eberhard Kloke
Charles Ives
- The Answered Question or small orchestra op. 131 by Eberhard Kloke after Charles Ives. On behalf of the Berliner Festspiele-Music Festival Berlin
Leoš Janáček
- Jenůfa, new version for soloists, choir and small orchestra (op. 72) by Eberhard Kloke
- Káta Kabanová, new version for soloists and chamber orchestra (op. 73) by Eberhard Kloke
Gustav Mahler
- Kindertoten-Lieder, transcription for lower voice and chamber ensemble op. 25.1 (10 players)
- Rückert-Lieder, transcription for low voice and chamber ensemble op. 26.1 (15 players)
- Sieben frühe Lieder, Ttranscription for soprano and orchestra op. 20; also version of chamber music op. 20a with sound band ad lib.
- Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen arranged for chamber ensemble for baritone/soprano and chamber orchestra op. 6
- Das Lied von der Erde, 1908, Abschied in the arrangement for soprano, baritone and chamber orchestra op. 5
Arnold Schönberg
- Transcription of Schönbergs Die Glückliche Hand, drama with music op. 18 for baritone (one man), 3 speakers/singers, 3 singers/speakers, 2 silent roles (one woman, one gentleman) and chamber ensemble (17 players) op 3
- Transcription of Schönbergs Erwartung op. 17, ext by Marie Pappenheim Transcription for small orchestra op. 4
Richard Strauss
- Lieder-Zyklus und Arie for soprano and instrumental ensemble (arr. Eberhard Kloke, op. 106 and op. 117 to op. 121) Universal Edition Wien and Boosey&Hawkes (London) / Schott-Music High soprano and instrumental ensemble, string quintet (2 Vl, Va , Vc, Db); Wind quintet (Fl-also Picc, Ob-also Eh, Cl in Bb+A- also Bass-Cl in Bb, Fg, Hr)
- Bearbeitung EK-Strauss op. 121, Das Rosenband aus Vier Lieder, from op. 36 (1897)
- Arrangement EK-Strauss, op. 117 "Wozu noch, Mädchen ", "Breit über mein Haupt", "Schön sind, doch kalt", "Wie sollten wir geheim sie halten?" aus Strauss' Lotosblätter op.19 (1888)
- Arrangement EK-Strauss, op. 118 Zueignung, Nichts, Die Nacht, Allerseelen from Letzte Blätter op. 10 (1885)
Richard Wagner
- Richard Wagner, Bühnenfestspiel Der Ring des Nibelungen arranged for soloists, choir (GD) and medium-sized orchestra op. 16-19
- Transcriptions of Siegfried op. 18 and Götterdämmerung op. 19, arranged for soloists, choir (GD) and medium-sized orchestra
- Transkription von Richard Wagners Die Walküre für 11 Soli und 57 Instrumentalisten/Innen (mittleres Orchester) op. 17, (UE) Wien 2012
- Transcription of Das Rheingold for 11 solos (double roles of Woglinde and Freia, Mime and Froh, Fasolt and Donner) and 54 instrumentalists op. 16
- Richard Wagner, Isoldes Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde, version for soprano and chamber orchestra
- PARSIFAL ENTFERNUNG. Sakrileg Kundry after Richard Wagner's Parsifal Montage from Wagner's PARSIFAL (Kundry passages) and music, speech and image répliques for 1 soprano, actor, string quartet, piano, video and tape op. 14
