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German pianist, conductor and teacher (b. 25 September 1830 {{NS}} in [[Hannover]]; d. 27 July 1916 {{NS}} in Stolpe, near Oranienburg), born '''''Karl Ludwig Klindworth'''''.

==Biography==
During his youth, Klindworth was trained to play the violin, but later taught himself the piano. At the age of 17 he became conductor of a travelling theatre company, and from 1852 to 1854 he studied under [[Franz Liszt]] at Weimar.

After moving to [[London]] in 1854, he spent fourteen years as a conductor, where audiences generally found his programmes of traditional works juxtaposed with modern music too challenging for popular tastes. However, he was highly rated by fellow musicians, including [[Richard Wagner]] and [[Edward Dannreuther]].

==Tchaikovsky and Klindworth==
In 1868, Klindworth was invited by [[Nikolay Rubinstein]] to join the staff of the [[Moscow]] Conservatory, where he befriended Tchaikovsky, and made several piano arrangements of Tchaikovsky's works. Together with [[Hans von Bülow]], Klindworth endorsed Tchaikovsky's overture-fantasia ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' to the [[Berlin]] publishers [[Bote & Bock]] when the score was sent to them by [[Nikolay Rubinstein]] in May 1870. [[Bote & Bock]] eventually published the full score of the overture (revised version) in 1871, thereby laying the foundation-stone of Tchaikovsky's growing fame in Germany.

After [[Nikolay Rubinstein]]'s death, Klindworth returned to Germany where he became co-conductor of the [[Berlin]] Philharmonic Orchestra in 1882, and founded his own piano conservatory in the German capital two years later.

==Dedications==
Tchaikovsky dedicated two of his piano works to Karl Klindworth:
* ''[[Capriccio]]'' in G-flat major, for piano, Op. 8 (1870) — "à Mr. Ch. Klindworth"
* [[Grand Sonata]] in G major, for piano, Op. 37 (1878) — à Mr. Charles Klindworth".

==Correspondence with Tchaikovsky==
4 letters from Tchaikovsky to Karl Klindworth have survived, dating from 1878 to 1890, all of which have been translated into English on this website:
* '''[[Letter 932a]]''' – 7/19 October 1878, from [[Moscow]]
* '''[[Letter 2829a]]''' – 9/21 December 1885, from [[Maydanovo]]
* '''[[Letter 3976a]]''' – 27 November/9 December 1889, from [[Moscow]]
* '''[[Letter 4038a]]''' – 16/28 February 1890, from [[Florence]].

4 letters from Klindworth to the composer, dating from 1879 to 1890, are preserved in the {{RUS-KLč}} at [[Klin]] (a{{sup|4}}, Nos. 1454–1457).

==Bibliography==
* {{bib|1965/26}} (1965)
* {{bib|2000/22}} (2000)
* {{bib|2008/13}} (2008)

==External Links==
* [[wikipedia:Karl_Klindworth|Wikipedia]] 
* {{IMSLP|Klindworth,_Karl}}
* {{viaf|24868466}}

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