By David Allen There is a touching documentary about Otto Klemperer, that steadfast titan of conducting who died 50 years ago, by the filmmaker Philo Bregstein. Watch it for long enough ...

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 ...

Superenthusiastic, the audience gave its verdict last night, and it was preponderantly in favor of Otto Klemperer. Cool judgment may dictate reserve in respect to all things new, but the public of ...

Dark, fierce-eyed Otto Klemperer has the awe-inspiring, fiery look of an Old Testament prophet. And, like Job, he has been sorely afflicted. Last week, at 61, after years of tragedy, Conductor ...

The young Otto Klemperer’s conducting career was encouraged by no less than Gustav Mahler, Klemperer’s meteoric rise leading him to become director of Berlin’s Kroll Opera from 1927 to 1931. The first ...

Lotte Klemperer's life was one of quiet dignity and self-effacement. Thrust into the limelight as the daughter of the conductor Otto Klemperer, she sought no part of it for her own advantage ...

Klemperer, a distant relation of actor Werner Klemperer and conductor Otto Klemperer, is also the daughter of two musicians. While the pandemic and the birth of her son has slowed down her ...