August Alexander Klengel’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro German composer
Was Musician 
Composer 
Pianist 
From Germany 
Type Music 
Gender male
Birth 29 June 1783, Dresden
Death 22 November 1852, Dresden
(aged 69 years)
Family
Father: Johann Christian Klengel

August Alexander Klengel (29 June 1783, Dresden – 22 November 1852, Dresden) was a German pianist, organist and composer.

Biography

Klengel was the son of landscape painter Johann Christian Klengel (de). He showed an early talent for music, and studied piano under (among others) Johann Peter Milchmeyer (1750–1813).

In 1803, Muzio Clementi, a renowned teacher, visited Dresden. He accepted Klengel as pupil, and took him with him on his travels. In 1805, they met Ludwig Berger in St Petersburg. Clementi next travelled to London, but Klengel remained in St Petersburg until 1811, continuing his studies. He next moved to Paris; in 1814, he returned to Dresden; in 1815, he visited London, where the Philharmonic Society commissioned him to write a piece, and he wrote for them his Piano Quintet (for piano, violin, viola, cello and double bass). In 1816, he was appointed court composer to the King of Saxony (at the time, Frederick Augustus I), in Dresden. Except for brief visits to Paris and Brussels, he remained in that city for the rest of his life.

His Canons and Fugues for Piano, in All the Major and Minor Keys were first published in 1854, after his death. In them, Klengel attempted to synthesise the lessons he had drawn both from Bach and from Clementi.

Compositions

These include:

  • Canons and Fugues for Piano, in All the Major and Minor Keys (1854)
  • Fantasy for piano four hands, Op. 31
  • Grande Polonaise Concertante for piano, flute, clarinet and strings, Op. 35
  • Piano Concertos, Op. 4 and 29
  • Piano Sonatas, Op. 1, 2 and 9
  • Piano Trio, Op. 36
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