Wilhelm Klatte

Wilhelm Klatte (13 February 1870 – 25 July 1930) was a German music theoretician, pedagogue, journalist and conductor.

Born in Bremen, after studying music in Leipzig, Klatte began his professional career as a musician first at the Deutsches Nationaltheater und Staatskapelle Weimar with Richard Strauss. During this time he was also active as a conductor on various occasions. In 1897 he became the first music consultant at the Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger. From 1904 Klatte also taught music theory at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin, where he was appointed professor in 1919. His students there included Else Schmitz-Gohr. Since 1925 he had also held a teaching position for theory at the Royal Music Institute of Berlin.

Klatte also held several honorary posts. He was a member of the board of directors of the Allgemeiner Deutscher Musikverein (from 1909) and representative of the musical arts in the Vorläufiger Reichswirtschaftsrat [de] (from 1925).

Klatte died in Berlin at the age of 60.^[1]

• Zur Geschichte der Programm-Musik,^[2] 1905
• Franz Schubert, 1907
• Aufgaben für den einfachen Kontrapunkt,^[3] 1915
• Grundlagen des mehrstimmigen Satzes (Harmonielehre),^[4] 1922
• Das Sternsche Konservatorium der Musik zu Berlin,^[5] 1925

• Hugo Riemann: Riemann Musiklexikon 11th edition, edited by Alfred Einstein. Max Hesse Verlag, Berlin 1929, p. 899
• Wilhelm Kosch (edit.): Deutsches Theater-Lexikon. Volume II, Hurka–Pallenberg. De Gruyter, Berlin [among others.] 1960, p. 1007. ISBN 978-3-907820-28-5 (retrieved via De Gruyter Online).

• Werke von und über Wilhelm Klatte in the German National Library catalogue
• Works by and about Wilhelm Klatte in the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (German Digital Library)