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...Kletzsch says he grew up the scion of an established and wealthy Milwaukee family and came to Harvard "to become a composer." He left college to gain practical musical experience in a music conservatory in Milwaukee and returned five years later to finish his undergraduate. education and get a Master of Arts in Music...
...Kletzsch says he did not know on the fall, 1952day he moved into Dunster House as house librarianthat it was to be his home for the next 38 years.Despite "an offer from another very gooduniversity," he stayed on as a tutor afterreceiving his M.A. with highest honors, and wasmade composer-in-residence...
During this time, he says, he was shunned byhis family for "wasting [his] life on music." Helived in a small "secret room" abutting theDunster House Library on a yearly salary of $1000,the amount that was to be Kletzsch's sole incomeuntil he turned...
Teaching, too, brought him the gratificationthat made those lean years so rich, Kletzsch says."Teaching is extremely important to me and if youdo it right it takes the same creative energy ascomposing...
...estimates that he was about 40 years-oldwhen his parents and "an aunt or two" died,leaving him, as he says, "not a multi-millionaire,but far more comfortably off than before."Kletzsch could indulge his love for travel...