Welcome to the Klaus Lendzian Archive!

This website is near completion! Content and sitemap is there, and there’ll still be a general display and aesthetic makeover, but there’s a very key thing missing—the music itself!

Klaus’s music is not yet available across streaming platforms as the Archive is currently negotiating with beneficiaries of the Klaus Lendzian Estate to determine proper revenue splitting before going public and beginning promotion efforts.

Stay tuned and go check out the Transcriptions page to view or download 91 completed scores!

-Austin
July 3rd, 2025

Klaus Lendzian,

(October 3rd, 1943 – April 15, 2009) was a world-class guitarist and composer. He made 25 recordings over the course of his career; hundreds more compositions were never recorded. He played numerous concerts, the Folk Life Festival, and many restaurants and coffee houses. Klaus was born in Garmisch, Bavaria, on October 3, 1943. He came to the US at the age of 10. During his first year of college at the University of Washington, he discovered the guitar, and found the real purpose of his life. He went on to support himself entirely with his music.