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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As we approach the 60th anniversary of the TV sitcom Hogan’s Heroes, it’s a good occasion to consider whether the viewers who found it unseemly to derive laughs from a Nazi prisoner of war camp may ...

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 ...