Lotte Klemperer: born Cologne 1 November 1923; died Zurich 1 July 2003. Lotte Klemperer's life was one of quiet dignity and self-effacement. Thrust into the limelight as the daughter of the conductor ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Recording collections reveal the talents of an essential 20th-century musician who lived through mental illness, Nazism and other tribulations. By ...

Victor Klemperer considered himself a German above all else. His diaries of life in the Third Reich chronicle his painful awakening to violent antisemitism. Eva and Victor Klemperer in 1936.

Born in 1881, Victor Klemperer was a German academic of the old school—proud, dignified, intensely conscious of his high position in the social hierarchy, and convinced of the superiority of Germany ...

Nothing annoys Conductor Otto Klemperer quite so much as applause. He takes his bows almost grudgingly, his craggy face expressionless, his eyes apparently unseeing. To Klemperer, musicmaking is ...

Werner Klemperer was a veteran actor who escaped Germany with his family prior to the start of World War II. Classically trained as a violinist and the son of noted conductor Otto Klemperer, he played ...

Great! One word, perhaps, suffices to estimate the new conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra. Superenthusiastic, the audience gave its verdict last night, and it was preponderantly in favor of Otto ...

Music is a thing apart politics, Otto Klemperer, noted conductor who was forced to leave Germany when the Nazis assumed control, declared Friday when he arrived on the liner Aquitania to conduct the ...

Last week in Manhattan, at considerable personal expense, after great personal effort, a musician conducted an orchestra to prove to the world that he is not crazy. There have been worse reasons for a ...