Otto Klemperer

Otto Klemperer (May 14, 1885 – July 6, 1973) was a German-born conductor and composer. (He took United States citizenship in 1937 and Israeli citizenship in 1970.) He is widely regarded as one of the greatest conductors of the 20th century. He is remembered for his performances and recordings of Germanic repertoire, of which he generally gave austere and grand performances, in later years often with notoriously slow tempi.

External links

• Beating Time A play by Jim Grover about Klemperer.
• The Stanford Collection A comprehensive film archive, collected by Dr Charles Barber.