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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

It was slightly more than a century ago, in November 1918, that revolution swept through Germany, bringing chaos to a country that, in the final days of World War I, was already in desperate straits ...

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 ...

It's a strange phenomenon that the victims of genocide are frequently the sole witnesses to the atrocities directed at them. In the case of the Holocaust—the most horrific, extensive, and organized ...

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 ...