Leonhard Kleber

Leonhard Kleber (~1495-1556) was a German organist. He is best known for his expansive and intricately decorated tablature, which contains organ arrangements of polyphonic music both sacred and secular.

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Biography

Kleber was born in Göppingen, studied at Heidelberg University, and afterwards served as organist in Horb am Neckar, Esslingen am Neckar, and Pforzheim, where he died in 1556. His stay at Heidelberg in the years preceding 1512 suggests that he may have studied under Arnolt Schlick.

References

Apel, W. (1967). Geschichte der Orgel- und Klaviermusik bis 1700. Kassel, Bärenreiter Verlag.

Loewenfeld, H. (1897). Leonhard Kleber und sein Orgeltabulaturbuch als Beitrag zur Geschichte der Orgelmusik im beginnenden XVI. Jahrhundert. Doctoral dissertation, Humboldt University, Berlin (then Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin).