Otto Klemperer: His Life and Times, 2 vols.

American Scholar | March 22, 1997| | Copyright

Reviewed by JosEPH HOROWITZ

I cannot think of a single living classical musician whose biography could be subtitled "His Life and Times." (Imagine: Luciano Pavarotti? Itzhak Perlman? James Levine?) But "Otto Klemperer: His Life and Times" sounds right A physical giant, a wild yet austere personality, Klemperer occupied a vast stage. Purposefully and fortuitously, heroically and clumsily, he tangled with political and intellectual affairs far beyond the scope of mere music in performance.

As director of Berlin's Kroll Opera from 1917 to 1931, Klemperer personified ...

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