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Author: fantasmacantos
Date: 2011-05-25 14:10
Dieter Klocker, 75, died on saturday in Friburg.
http://aktuell.klassik.com/news/teaser.cfm?ID=8653&nachricht=Klarinettist%20Dieter%20Kl%F6cker%20verstorben
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2011-05-25 15:16
Here's a cleaned up Google Translate version:
"Founder of the Consortium Classicum dies at the age of 75
"Clarinetist Dieter Klöcker has died
"Freiburg, 05.23.2011. Clarinetist Dieter Klöcker, died last Saturday at the age of 75 in Freiburg. He taught clarinet and wind chamber music at the Academy of Music
"Born 1936 in Wuppertal, Dieter Klöcker studied at the Academy of Music in Detmold with Karl Kroll and later with Jost Michaels. He then spent nine years as solo clarinetist with several orchestras. In the early sixties, he founded the Consortium Classicum. With this ensemble, as well as solo clarinetist, he recorded numerous LPs and CDs and toured all over the world. He also held master classes in many countries, which gained an excellent reputation.
"Besides being a musician, he also worked as a music researcher. Here he devoted himself particularly to building a chamber music archive of the classical music of the 18th and 19th centuries."
Ken Shaw
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Author: Katrina
Date: 2011-05-25 15:45
Oh no!
I've always loved his playing. And I was hoping against hope to travel there and study with him. Of course that was not likely anyway...
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2011-05-25 16:02
That's such a shame - probably one of the last (if not the last) of his generation with the true German sound.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: Buster
Date: 2011-05-25 16:24
A former teacher met Mr. Klocker in the 80's while taking an extended "vacation" in Germany. He spoke very kindly of him as a gentleman, and had the occasion to play for him on several occasions. Mr. Klocker actually encouraged him to enroll at the university (don't know the name) where he was teaching at the time. In a snap judgement of youthful naivety, and perhaps ego as it was a "different" school of playing, he passed. In later years he did look back with some regret on his decision, and perhaps relayed this story to me to encourage having an open mind.
Nevertheless, a notated player has passed and a voice has been silenced. Do any know if he was still active in the community or had been in poor health?
-JH
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Author: MarlboroughMan
Date: 2011-05-25 19:38
May he rest in peace.
There is some good news regarding his instruments, (Warschewski in B flat and Oehler in A) which are now in the hands of Luigi Magistrelli of Milan. Magistrelli is committed to the German sound tradition and has already recorded on the instruments, though I'm not sure if they're commercially available as of yet.
No one will replace Dieter Klocker, but it's good to know that the tradition is valued.
Eric
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The Jazz Clarinet
http://thejazzclarinet.blogspot.com/
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Author: Pastor Rob
Date: 2011-05-26 01:02
l have quite a few of his CDs. The picture of his clarinet showed significantly different keywork than mine. I assume it was an Oelher system instrument? I absolutely loved the distinctive tone of his music! His notations about the various minor masters whose music he brought to the attention of modern audiences were also enlightening.
Pastor Rob Oetman
Leblanc LL (today)
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Author: graham
Date: 2011-05-26 07:06
Oh Dear. That's my favourite living player now consigned to one of the past greats.
I first heard his playing on an LP which my brother bought in the 1970s while he was on a trip to Germany. It was a mix of Vivaldi, Telemann, and Molter. It was entrancing. And so, when his recordings started to appear in large numbers in the 1980s, I bought a number of them. He had what many would regard as a quirky style, but I always felt that there was a strong musical message and a sound that was lovely on the ear just for its own sake.
I once cotacted his agent to see if he was playing live anywhere that was accessible from London. But the short list that came back showed that he was only performing in out of the way German locations. I am not aware that he ever toured to the UK, and it would be interesting to hear if he had.
Obviously, he had retired, so we have not missed out by his early death, but it is a pity that it happened this soon.
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Author: John Peacock
Date: 2011-05-26 08:18
This is very sad. I first heard his playing as an 18-year-old, in a radio broadcast of the Hoffmeister concerto. I was so struck by it that I spent hours with a tape recorder writing out the piece. It was the first time I'd come across the perky articulation that's possible in the German system, and it made a big impression. He did a great service over the years with consortium classicum in championing neglected chamber works, and he's left a rich legacy.
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Author: ronjohn
Date: 2011-05-26 16:16
Very sad news indeed. - My first acoustical experience was his LP "Romantische Klarinettenkonzerte", performed with briskness and virtuosity (very emotive and soulful in slow movements as well) - in my ears an unmistakably individual sound ...
Years later I started my collection of all CDs with him as a soloist or with his Consortium Classicum (nearly 150 CDs so far). Listening to these recordings was often my "private nutshell"; to music he had tirelessly discovered in old archives and reanimated in such a sparkling way.
In May 2007 he gave a concert, here in Bayreuth, and it was such an impressive evening to her him play with the Consortium Classicum ...
Regrettably there didn't exist - up to now - any youtube-video of Mr. Klocker where you could see him perform live. But yesterday I found one (all 3 movements of the Hoffmeister Concertante, together with Guiseppe Porgo):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4XUXT4DMlE
(Quite sharp fidelity - but better than no remininscence at all)
In an interview in the occasion of his 75th birthday he talked about his memoires which he started to write down to be published - but unfortunately he cannot carry on with this project ...
(I'm a German native speaker - hope you could catch what I wanted to say)
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Author: Gary Van Cott
Date: 2011-05-26 17:16
So what happens to all that music he collected and hid from the experts? I heard he was trying to sell it for 250,000 Euros.
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Author: Buster
Date: 2011-05-26 20:21
ronjohn,
I had no problem understanding what you wrote. As a native english speaker that lived in a foreign country for many years, I know the paralysis felt communicating ideas in a different language. I had to learn to function in everyday situations- (grocery shopping was interesting the first few times!), rehearsals, and in an academic Conservatory. You do not need to "apologize" for not being a native speaker of English; and I would bet you actually communicate in English much better than you realize! have no fear!!
-JH
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