August Klughardt

Klughardt, who was born in Köthen, took his first piano and music theory lessons at the age of 10.

Soon he began to compose his first pieces, which were performed by a music circle Klughardt had founded himself at school.

He received many distinctions in his last years: he was appointed member of the Berlin Academy of Arts in 1898 and he was made honorary doctor by the University of Erlangen.

Likewise, he did not compose a single symphonic poem[disputed – discuss], a genre that was propagated by Liszt, but several more old-fashioned programmatic overtures.

Some of his compositions show Klughardt as a child of his times, for example his choral work Die Grenzberichtigung (The correction of the frontier), Op.

Altogether, Klughardt must be considered as a rather conservative composer in spite of his interest in more modern tendencies.

65 with the Dessau Anhalt Philharmonic Orchestra, soloist Miriam Tschopp and conductor Golo Berg.

87, a series of three well-contrasted pieces (Capriccio, Gavotte, and Tarantelle), performed by the same orchestra but this time conducted by Antony Hermus.

71 was also recorded on CPO in 2013 with the same orchestra and conductor and also contains the Concert Overture in E "Im Frühling" (In Spring), Op.

67, an orchestration by the composer of an earlier piano suite that he composed after he and his wife holidayed in the Harz mountains; they are performed by Rolf-Julius Koch (oboe), Horst Beckedorf (cello) and the NDR Radiophilarmonie with three different conductors.