Editing Paul Klee (section)

=== Musical interpretations ===
[[File:Le centre Paul Klee (Berne, Suisse) (28648115807).jpg|thumb|[[Zentrum Paul Klee]] in Bern, Switzerland, designed by [[Renzo Piano]]]]

Unlike his taste for adventurous modern experiment in painting, Klee, though musically talented, was attracted to older traditions of music; he appreciated neither composers of the late 19th century, such as [[Richard Wagner|Wagner]], [[Anton Bruckner|Bruckner]] and [[Gustav Mahler|Mahler]], nor contemporary music. [[Johann Sebastian Bach|Bach]] and [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]] were for him the greatest composers; he most enjoyed playing the works by the latter.<ref name="Baumgartner208">Beate Ofczarek, Stefan Frey: ''Chronologie einer Freundschaft''. In: Michael Baumgartner, Cathrin Klingsöhr-Leroy, Katja Schneider, p.&nbsp;208</ref>

Klee's work has influenced composers such as Argentinian [[Roberto García Morillo]] in 1943, with ''Tres pinturas de Paul Klee''. Others include the American composer [[David Diamond (composer)|David Diamond]] in 1958, with the four-part [[Opus number|Opus]] ''Welt von Paul Klee'' (World of Paul Klee). [[Gunther Schuller]] composed ''Seven Studies on Themes of Paul Klee'' in the years 1959/60, consisting of ''Antique Harmonies'', ''Abstract Trio'', ''Little Blue Devil'', ''Twittering Machine'', ''Arab Village'', ''An Eerie Moment'', and ''Pastorale''. The Spanish composer [[Benet Casablancas]] wrote ''Alter Klang'', Impromptu for Orchestra after Klee (2006);<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://blog.trito.es/2009/06/concluye-la-gira-europea-de-alter-klang/ |title=Concluye la gira europea de "Alter Klang" &#124; el Blog de Tritó |access-date=24 March 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160324060028/http://blog.trito.es/2009/06/concluye-la-gira-europea-de-alter-klang/ |archive-date=24 March 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=|first=|date=3 June 2013|title=Alter Klang, Impromptu per a orquestra|url=http://www.trito.es/img/mostres/fotos/ptr_mostres/MTR_547.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130603232539/http://www.trito.es/img/mostres/fotos/ptr_mostres/MTR_547.pdf|archive-date=3 June 2013|access-date=18 December 2018|website=}}</ref> Casablancas is author also of the ''Retablo on texts by Paul Klee'', Cantata da Camera for Soprano, Mezzo and Piano (2007).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.chesternovello.com/default.aspx?TabId=2431&State_2905=3&ComposerID_2905=4155&CategoryID_2905=0&#93; |title=Composers |access-date=23 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130530132627/http://www.chesternovello.com/default.aspx?tabId=2431 |archive-date=30 May 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.stradivarius.it/scheda.php?ID=801157033828000|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110415014942/http://www.stradivarius.it/scheda.php?ID=801157033828000|url-status=dead|archive-date=15 April 2011|title=Stradivarius – The leading italian classical music label|date=15 April 2011}}</ref> In 1950, [[Giselher Klebe]] performed his orchestral work ''Die Zwitschermaschine'' with the subtitle ''Metamorphosen über das Bild von Paul Klee'' at the [[Donaueschinger Musiktage]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Das tönende Museum. Musik des 20. Jahrhunderts interpretiert Werke bildender Kunst |section=Die Zwitschermaschine: Klangsymbole der Moderne|author=Siglind Bruhn|publisher=Edition Gorz|url=http://home.vrweb.de/~edition-gorz/bruhn1-01.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061218101430/http://home.vrweb.de/~edition-gorz/bruhn1-01.pdf|archive-date=18 December 2006|language=de|access-date=3 October 2008}}</ref> ''[[8 Pieces on Paul Klee]]'' is the title of the debut album by the [[Ensemble Sortisatio]], recorded February and March 2002 in [[Leipzig]] and August 2002 in Lucerne, Switzerland. The composition "Wie der Klee vierblättrig wurde" (How the clover became four-leaved) was inspired by the watercolor painting ''[[Hat Kopf, Hand, Fuss und Herz]]'' (1930), ''[[Angelus Novus]]'' and ''Hauptweg und Nebenwege''.

In 1968, a jazz group called The National Gallery featuring composer [[Chuck Mangione]] released the album ''Performing Musical Interpretations of the Paintings of Paul Klee''.<ref>Vinyl LP, Philips catalog number: PHS 600-266.</ref> In 1995 the Greek experimental filmmaker, Kostas Sfikas, created a film based entirely on Paul Klee's paintings. The film is entitled "''Paul Klee's Prophetic Bird of Sorrows''", and draws its title from Klee's Landscape with Yellow Birds. It was made using portions and cutouts from Paul Klee's paintings.

==== Additional musical interpretations ====
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* [[Sándor Veress]]: ''Hommage à Paul Klee'' (1951), phantasy for two pianos and strings
* [[Peter Maxwell Davies]]: ''Five Klee-Pictures'' (1962), orchestral
* [[Harrison Birtwistle]]: ''Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum'' (The Perpetual Song of Mechanical Arcadia) (1977), for orchestra
* [[Edison Denisov]]: ''Drei Bilder von Paul Klee'' (Three Pictures of Paul Klee) (1985), for six players (''Diana im Herbstwind'' − ''Senecio'' – ''Kind auf der Freitreppe'')
* [[Tōru Takemitsu]]: ''All in Twilight'' (1987), for guitar
* [[John Woolrich]]: ''The kingdom of dreams'' (1989), for oboe and piano ('Landscape with Yellow Birds', 'The Bavarian Don Giovanni', 'Tale à la Hoffmann', 'Fish Magic')  
* [[Leo Brouwer]]: ''Sonata'' (1990), for guitar<ref>Marçal, Ricardo. Ekphrasis em música: os quadrados mágicos de Paul Klee na Sonata para violão solo de Leo Brouwer. Per Musi n. 19, jan–jun 2009, pp. 47–62.</ref>
* [[Walter Steffens (composer)|Walter Steffens]]: ''Vier Aquarelle nach Paul Klee'' (Four Watercolor Pictures to Paul Klee) (1991), op. 63, for recorder(s)
* [[Tan Dun]]: ''Death and Fire'' (1992), Dialogue with Paul Klee, orchestral
* [[Judith Weir]]: ''Heroic Strokes of the Bow'' (1992), for orchestra
* [[Jean-Luc Darbellay]]: ''Ein Garten für Orpheus'' (A Garden for Orpheus) (1996), for six instruments
* [[Michael Denhoff]]: ''Haupt- und Nebenwege'' (Main and Sideways) (1998), for strings and piano
* [[Iris Szeghy]]: ''Ad parnassum'' (2005), for strings
* [[Patrick van Deurzen]]: ''Six: a line is a dot that went for a walk'' (2006), for Flugelhorn, DoubleBass & Percussion
* [[Jim McNeely]]: ''Paul Klee'' (2007), Jazz album written for the Swiss Jazz Orchestra composed of 8 pieces 
* [[Jason Wright Wingate]]: ''[[Symphony No. 2: Kleetüden]]; Variationen für Orchester nach Paul Klee (Variations for Orchestra after Paul Klee)'' (2009), for orchestra in 27 movements
* [[Sakanaction]]: "Klee" (2010), from the album ''[[Kikuuiki]]''; a song envisioned as a dialogue with Klee's paintings.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.excite.co.jp/music/close_up/1003_sakanaction/ | script-title=ja:クローズアップ サカナクション |author=Nachi Ebisawa |publisher=Excite | language=ja |date=18 March 2015 | access-date=14 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111025115421/http://www.excite.co.jp/music/close_up/1003_sakanaction/ |archive-date=25 October 2011 }}</ref>
* [[Ludger Stühlmeyer]]: ''Super flumina Babylonis [An den Wassern zu Babel]''. (2019), fantasia for organ (Introduzione, Scontro, Elegie, Appassionato) on an aquarelle by Paul Klee.
* [[George Crumb]]: ''Metamorphoses, Book 1: No. 1, Black Prince; No. 2, Goldfish'' and ''Metamorphoses, Book 2: No. 1, Ancient Sound, Abstract on Black; No. 2, Landscape with Yellow Birds'' (2019), for piano after paintings of the same name by Paul Klee