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Festival in Detmold, Germany to Honor Giselher Klebe on the 100th Anniversary of his Birth

Nov. 24, 2025

From October to December, the Hochschule für Musik Detmold in Germany is celebrating a very special anniversary: June 28, 2025 marked the 100th birthday of Giselher Klebe, one of the most important composers of the German postwar period. His varied oeuvre, published by Bärenreiter since the mid-1960s, including 14 operas and eight symphonies, numerous concert works, and compositions in all genres, is being commemorated in a selected festival program. The first concert marked the beginning of the academic year on October 24 in the Konzerthaus Detmold, when Soirée for trombone and chamber ensemble was performed. This was followed by orchestral and chamber concerts and, on November 23, by an abridged and semi-staged performance of the opera Das Mädchen aus Domrémy, based on Schiller’s Die Jungfrau von Orleans, the essence of which is described by the composer as follows: “It is not the historical aspect, not the stylistic speculation, but just the concentration on the eternal conflict between the individual and society which determines the conception of this opera.”

On December 14, Ensemble Earquake concludes the celebrations with Al Rovescio for flute, harp, piano and metal idiophone.

Read a portrait of Giselher Klebe in [t]aktehere.

To learn more about Giselher Klebe, visit: baerenreiter.com.

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