Klengel, Julius
Klengel Paul, *13 May 1854 Leipzig, †24 April 1935 Leipzig, German violinist, pianist, and composer. He studied at the Leipzig Conservatory from 1868 to 1872 under F. David (violin), C. Reinecke (piano), E.F. Richter and O. Paul (music theory and composition). He also studied at the University of Leipzig, where he received his doctorate in philosophy in 1876 on the basis of his work Zur Ästhetik der Tonkunst. From 1874 he performed as a soloist and also in duo with his brother Julius. He was director of the Euterpe concert society in the years 1881–1886. Additionally, he taught violin and music theory at the Leipzig Conservatory from 1883. In 1887, he became music director of the Stuttgart opera, and in 1888, Kapellmeister in court of that city. In 1892 he returned to Leipzig, where he directed numerous singing societies (Arion, Singakademie and others) until 1898. He was conductor of the largest American choral society, under the name the Deutsche Liederkranz, in New York from 1898 to 1902. After returning to Leipzig until 1921, he again headed the Arion Society and was active as a composer, publisher, and editor as well as a teacher at the conservatory (piano, music theory, chamber music, choir). He composed mainly songs and short works for violin, cello and piano, and made numerous chamber and orchestral arrangements of works from the Baroque, Classical and Romantic periods.