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German Musician Once Called Greatest Living Conductor of Beethoven, Mahler
July 8, 1973
Conductor Otto Klemperer (1885-1973) was born long enough ago to have heard the music of Brahms, Wagner and Mahler when it was new and those Teutonic Romantic giants still trod the earth, or had so recently departed it that their presences remained palpable.
Sept. 22, 1985
Great! One word, perhaps, suffices to estimate the new conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra.
Oct. 21, 1933
BEETHOVEN: THE NINE SYMPHONIES; SIX OVERTURES. Otto Klemperer conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra.
Oct. 19, 1986
On Tuesday, the 100th birthday of Otto Klemperer (1885-1973) will be marked internationally in London, where Carlo Maria Giulini will conduct the Philharmonia Orchestra in Beethoven’s “Missa Solemnis” at a Klemperer memorial concert in Royal Festival Hall.
May 12, 1985
On Oct. 14, 1933, the great German conductor Otto Klemperer stepped off the train in Los Angeles and into a world unlike any he had ever imagined.
April 27, 1997
Peter Heyworth, who is working on a biography of conductor Otto Klemperer, will be in Los Angeles through Tuesday to complete his research on Klemperer’s years in America (1933-1953).
Feb. 16, 1986
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Book review: A review in Thursday’s Calendar of Dorothy Lamb Crawford’s “A Windfall of Musicians: Hitler’s Emigres and Exiles in Southern California” quoted a number of exiled musicians who had come to live in America.
July 18, 2009
EMI Classics, the former (in this country) Angel Records, has entered the big-box reissue market by trotting out one of its past heavyweights, conductor Otto Klemperer (1885-1973), in a 10-CD, budget-priced “Limited Edition”--whatever that means--that serves as a potent reminder of what monumental, Germanic music-making was like.
Jan. 15, 1995
Feb. 6, 2015