"here: ""Otto Klemperer conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic"" Klemperer's last recording, of Mozart's Serenade in E-flat, K.375, was made on September 28, 1971, the last time he led an orchestra. Notes Sources Otto Klemperer Otto Nossan Klemperer (14 May 18856 July 1973) was a Jewish German-born conductor and composer, described as ""the last of the few really great conductors of his generation."" Otto Klemperer was born in Breslau, Province of Silesia, then in Germany (now Wrocław, Poland), as a son of Nathan Klemperer, a native of Prague, Bohemia (today's Czech Republic). His parents were Jewish. Klemperer studied music first at"
"Otto Klemperer (physicist) Otto Ernst Heinrich Klemperer (1899–1987) was a physicist expert in electron optics. He was granted his doctorate by the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in 1923. His thesis advisor was Hans Geiger. He continued to work with Geiger in the 1930s. Klemperer was co-inventor in 1928 of the Geiger-Klemperer ball counter, ""the first major advance in the design of proportional counters"". During the 1930s, he worked at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge on discrepancies between Fermi's theory of β-decay and the observed radiation properties of rubidium and polonium. He was later an Assistant Professor and Reader"
"estimates. Klemperer died on December 27, 1926 in Dresden. He was married to Charlotte (Engelman). They had three sons. The historian Klemens von Klemperer was his grandson. Gustav Klemperer von Klemenau Gustav Klemperer von Klemenau (born Gustav von Klemperer) (1852–1926), was a prominent German banker. Under his leadership, the Dresdner Bank, where he served as Chairman of the Board of Directors, developed into a major international financial institution. Klemperer was born on April 24, 1852 in Prague to Adolph Klemperer and Henrietta Meyer Klemperer. In 1866, aged 14, he became an apprentice at the banking house of Julius Hirsch. In"
"conductor Otto Klemperer. His celebrity status spanned four continents, including Europe, South America and Asia. In the US, he performed with most all the nation's major orchestras, conductors and leading chamber ensembles. List's personality was known to be personable and unpretentious, uncommon qualities in the performing concert world. Everyone liked him. Conductors, composers, colleagues, students and even presidents valued his modest demeanour, his intellect, and his quick wit. In December 1941, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, List enlisted in the Army without waiting for his formal call-up, asking only that he be allowed to finish the season, since he"
"Gustav Klemperer von Klemenau Gustav Klemperer von Klemenau (born Gustav von Klemperer) (1852–1926), was a prominent German banker. Under his leadership, the Dresdner Bank, where he served as Chairman of the Board of Directors, developed into a major international financial institution. Klemperer was born on April 24, 1852 in Prague to Adolph Klemperer and Henrietta Meyer Klemperer. In 1866, aged 14, he became an apprentice at the banking house of Julius Hirsch. In 1871, he joined the Bank Robert Thode & Co, which was acquired by Dresdner Bank in 1890. There, he became a member of the Board of Directors,"
"Klemens von Klemperer Klemens Wilhelm von Klemperer (November 2, 1916 – December 23, 2012) was a historian of modern Europe and professor at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. He was a prominent member of a generation of historians who fled Nazi Germany and established themselves as leading scholars in the United States. His teaching and writings focused on 20th century Germany and Central Europe, in particular the Nazi regime and the resistance to Hitler. In 1997, he was awarded the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class for his contribution and services to Austrian culture. He delivered a"
"Victor Klemperer Victor Klemperer (9 October 188111 February 1960) was a Romance languages scholar who also became known as a diarist. His journals, published in Germany in 1995, detailed his life under the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, and the German Democratic Republic. Those covering the period of the Third Reich have since become standard sources and have been extensively quoted by Saul Friedländer, Michael Burleigh, Richard J. Evans, and Max Hastings. Klemperer was born in Landsberg an der Warthe (now Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland) to a Jewish family. His parents were Dr. Wilhelm Klemperer, a rabbi, and Henriette"
"children, a son James and a daughter Catharine. Klemens von Klemperer Klemens Wilhelm von Klemperer (November 2, 1916 – December 23, 2012) was a historian of modern Europe and professor at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. He was a prominent member of a generation of historians who fled Nazi Germany and established themselves as leading scholars in the United States. His teaching and writings focused on 20th century Germany and Central Europe, in particular the Nazi regime and the resistance to Hitler. In 1997, he was awarded the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class for his contribution"
"the decade of the 1920s included Georg Schnéevoigt and Artur Rodziński. Otto Klemperer became Music Director in 1933, part of the large group of German emigrants fleeing Nazi Germany. He conducted many LA Phil premieres, and introduced Los Angeles audiences to important new works by Igor Stravinsky and Arnold Schoenberg. The orchestra responded well to his leadership, but Klemperer had a difficult time adjusting to Southern California, a situation exacerbated by repeated manic-depressive episodes. Things were further complicated when founder William Andrews Clark died without leaving the orchestra an endowment. The newly formed Southern California Symphony Association was created with"
"Otto Kelmer Otto Kelmer (, born 28 January 1948) is a German film director, author, artist and psychoanalyst. Otto Kelmer was born in Bucharest in 1948 and emigrated with his parents to Germany in 1963. From 1966 to 1967 he studied script writing and directing at the Filmacademy Vienna. In the autumn of 1967, he took up his studies at Ruhr University Bochum, majoring in psychology, specializing in media sciences and finally earning his doctorate in 1975 with the publication ""Television – Grandmaster of Violence?: The Unmasking of a Myth"". The German weekly ""Die Zeit"" offered Kelmer the opportunity to"
"at the age of 80, according to his manager John A. Anderson. He was cremated and his ashes were scattered at sea. Werner Klemperer Werner Klemperer (March 22, 1920 – December 6, 2000) was a German-American stage, film, and television actor and singer/musician. Born in Cologne, Rhine Province, Germany, Klemperer and his family fled Germany in 1935. After serving in the United States Army during World War II, he began his professional acting career on the Broadway stage in 1947. Klemperer appeared in several films and numerous guest starring roles during the 1950s and 1960s. In 1965, he won the"
"religious identity, as Jew, Christian or dissident, to support his academic career. He chose Christianity as being most compatible with his much stronger conviction of being German, and became baptised again in Berlin in 1912. He completed his doctorate (on Montesquieu) in 1913 and was habilitated under the supervision of Karl Vossler in 1914. From 1914 to 1915, Klemperer lectured at the University of Naples, after which he became a decorated military volunteer in World War I. From 1920 he was Professor of Romance Languages at the Technical University of Dresden. Despite his conversion to Protestantism in 1912 and his"
"lecture in June 1998 at Westminster Abbey to mark the unveiling of a sculpture of Dietrich Bonhoeffer in the ""Martyrs' Gallery"". Klemens von Klemperer had a privileged childhood. He was born in Berlin, one of four children of Herbert and Frieda (née Kuffner) von Klemperer. His father was the president of Berliner Maschinenbau-AG (BMAG), a company that supplied locomotives as well as submarines and torpedoes to the military establishment. He was a grandson of Gustav Klemperer von Klemenau, a prominent banker who rose to become the chairman of the Dresdner Bank, and great nephew of Moriz von Kuffner, Viennese brewer"
"Wolfgang Klemperer Dr. Wolfgang Benjamin Klemperer (January 18, 1893 – March 25, 1965) was born in Dresden, Germany, the son of the Austrian nationals Leon and Charlotte Klemperer. He was in his time a prominent aviation and aerospace scientist and engineer, who ranks among the pioneers of early aviation. He is probably best known for his work on ""Properties of Rosette Configurations of Gravitating Bodies in Homographic Equilibrium"", which have been named after him as Klemperer rosettes. Klemperer was engaged in the development of airships or zeppelins, both in Germany and the US, high altitude ballons, specialized optics, a high-speed"
"the late 1950s to the early 1970s the orchestra's chief conductor was Otto Klemperer, with whom the orchestra gave many concerts and made numerous recordings of the core orchestral repertoire. During Klemperer's tenure Legge, citing the difficulty of maintaining the orchestra's high standards, attempted to disband it in 1964, but the players, backed by Klemperer, formed themselves into a self-governing ensemble as the New Philharmonia Orchestra. After thirteen years under this title they negotiated the rights to revert to the original name. In Klemperer's last years the orchestra suffered a decline, both financial and artistic, but recovered under his successor,"
"Eugene Goossens and Fritz Reiner. This program of frequent guest conductors was made in an effort to restore the symphony to its ""golden years,"" but in effect demoted Modarelli and is cited as the reason for his resignation in 1937. In 1937, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra engaged renowned German conductor Otto Klemperer to reorganize and expand the Orchestra. A born teacher, he is credited with turning the Orchestra into a power to be reckoned with in just six weeks. After leaving Germany during the rise of the Nazi party, he had become the music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic."
"enrolled at the University of Vienna, where he studied history of law under Heinrich Mitteis. After the Anschluss in March 1938, he emerged as one of the prominent anti-Nazi student leaders in Vienna. Von Klemperer befriended the brothers Otto Molden and , future leaders of the resistance movement, joining them in the Parthenen mountain hut gathering of July 1938. However, in November 1938, mounting political disturbances and his family's Jewish background forced him to flee to the United States. In the waning months of his life in Austria, he served as executor for the manuscripts in the estate of Hugo"
"Otto Klemperer, Leopold Stokowski, and Georg Solti. After graduation he moved to Germany and became a German citizen. Beaumont has held conducting posts with orchestras in Bremen, Cologne, and Saarbrücken, and has guest conducted opera productions in England and Italy. Beaumont has prepared new versions of the final two scenes of Busoni's unfinished opera ""Doktor Faust"", based on newly discovered sketches. This version serves as an alternative to the completion made by Busoni's pupil, Philipp Jarnach, which was based on less detailed information. The changes in Scene 2 occur during the vision of Helen of Troy and include slightly altered"
"manufacturing plant Aachener Segelflugzeugbau in Aachen, Germany. From 1922 to 1924, he worked at Luftschiffbau Zeppelin, Friedrichshafen in Germany, as head of research. Here he was involved in the development of zeppelins and was able to assemble a body of research around wind-tunnel experiments on air loads and moments acting on airships in curved flight and when moored, which formed the basis of his doctorate thesis. In 1924 he earned his doctorate in engineering from Aachen Institute of Technology. Also in 1924 Klemperer emigrated to the US, where he joined Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation in Akron, Ohio. The Zeppelin Airship Company, Friedrichshafen"
"Otto Krümmel Otto Krümmel (8 July 1854 in Exin, Province of Posen – 12 October 1912 in Cologne) was a German geographer influential in awakening public interest in oceanography. He was educated principally at the University of Göttingen, where he was a student of Johann Eduard Wappäus and Karl von Seebach. He approached the subject of geography at first through the study of classics and history. In 1882/83 he was associated with the German Naval Observatory in Hamburg, and in 1883, became an associate professor of geography at the University of Kiel (full professor in 1884, rector 1897/98). In that"
"Otto Ernst Remer Otto-Ernst Remer (18 August 1912 – 4 October 1997) was a German Wehrmacht officer who played a decisive role in stopping the 20 July plot in 1944 against Adolf Hitler. During World War II, he was wounded nine times in combat. After the war, he cofounded the ""Sozialistische Reichspartei"" (SRP) and advanced Holocaust denial. He is considered the ""Godfather"" of the postwar Nazi underground. Born in 1912, Remer attended a military academy and was commissioned as an officer in 1932, at the age of 20. He took part in the invasion of Poland in 1939, the Balkans"
"William Klemperer William A. Klemperer (October 6, 1927 – November 5, 2017) was an American chemist who was one of the most influential chemical physicists and molecular spectroscopists in the second half of the 20th century. Klemperer is most widely known for introducing molecular beam methods into chemical physics research, greatly increasing the understanding of nonbonding interactions between atoms and molecules through development of the microwave spectroscopy of van der Waals molecules formed in supersonic expansions, pioneering astrochemistry, including developing the first gas phase chemical models of cold molecular clouds that predicted an abundance of the molecular HCO ion that"
"at the planned ""Strength Through Joy"" beach resort Prora on the island of Rügen in Germany. In 2003, directed a documentary based on Klemperer's diaries, ""La langue ne ment pas"" (""Language does not lie""), which considers the importance of Klemperer's observations and the role of the witness in extreme situations. Victor Klemperer Victor Klemperer (9 October 188111 February 1960) was a Romance languages scholar who also became known as a diarist. His journals, published in Germany in 1995, detailed his life under the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, and the German Democratic Republic. Those covering the period of"
"Speaker in Arnold Schoenberg's ""Gurre-Lieder"", in a 1979 live performance with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Klemperer's first major film role was as a psychiatrist in Alfred Hitchcock's ""The Wrong Man"" (1956). He played a German government officer in the 1959 episode, ""The Haunted U-Boat,"" of the series ""."" Also in 1959, he appeared as a Frenchman in the episode ""Fragile"" of the Western TV series ""Have Gun, Will Travel"". He received significant notice for his role in the award-winning 1961 film ""Judgment at Nuremberg"". The film presents a fictionalized account of the post-World War II Nuremberg Trials, with Klemperer portraying"
"Otto Weber (theologian) Otto Weber (4 June 1902 – 19 October 1966) was a German theologian. Weber was born in Mülheim, Cologne, and studied at Bonn and Tübingen. In 1933, he joined the Nazi Party and was for a short time a member of the German Christians group. In 1934, Weber became professor at the University of Göttingen. He opposed the witness of the Confessing Church, and after the war felt a strong sense of guilt for his involvement with Nazi Germany. His 1955 work, ""The Foundations of Dogmatics"" is one of the most influential Reformed theological works of the"
"Otto Schirmer Otto Schirmer (13 December 1864, Greifswald – 6 May 1918) was a German ophthalmologist from Greifswald. He studied medicine at several universities including the University of Greifswald. In 1896 he attained the chair of ophthalmology at Greifswald, a position earlier held by this father, Rudolf Schirmer (1831-1896). Later he was a professor of ophthalmology at the Universities of Kiel and Strasbourg, and in 1909 emigrated to New York, where he worked at several locations including the Herman Knapp Memorial Eye Hospital. Schirmer conducted histological and biochemical studies of cataract, and also provided a comprehensive description on the pathology"
"he served in the German Federal Navy and retired in 1970 with the rank of ""Flottillenadmiral"" (flotilla admiral). Otto Kretschmer was born in Heidau, Neisse. At the age of seventeen he spent eight months living in England, in Exeter, where he learned to speak English fluently. Studying at the University College of the South West of England during this time, his academic focus was on mathematics, chemistry, and English. He joined the ""Reichsmarine"" in April 1930, attaining the rank of ""Seekadett"" (naval cadet) after completing officer training courses as well as three months aboard the training ship ""Niobe"" (1 July"
"Werner Klemperer Werner Klemperer (March 22, 1920 – December 6, 2000) was a German-American stage, film, and television actor and singer/musician. Born in Cologne, Rhine Province, Germany, Klemperer and his family fled Germany in 1935. After serving in the United States Army during World War II, he began his professional acting career on the Broadway stage in 1947. Klemperer appeared in several films and numerous guest starring roles during the 1950s and 1960s. In 1965, he won the role of Colonel Wilhelm Klink on the CBS television sitcom ""Hogan's Heroes"". The series aired for six seasons with Klemperer receiving a"
"wide-angle cine-camera, analogue computers, equipment for data processing and flight simulators. He became the preeminent missile scientist of Douglas Aircraft Corporation and in 1958 the director of the guided missile research section, staff assistant to the vice-president, and director of product development. Throughout his career he published regularly, often with his first and middle names abbreviated to W. B. Klemperer, in scientific magazines on aerodynamics, space flight and navigation as well as sailplanes. In 1962 he published his work on the Klemperer rosette. Klemperer grew up in the city of Dresden, where he also attended school. After graduating from grammar"
"Otto Renner Otto Renner (25 April 1883 in Neu-Ulm – 8 July 1960) was a German plant geneticist. Following the work of Erwin Baur, Renner established the theory of maternal plastid inheritance as a widely accepted genetic theory. He studied botany under Karl von Goebel and Ludwig Radlkofer at the University of Munich, and with Wilhelm Pfeffer at the University of Leipzig. From 1913 to 1920 he served as an associate professor of plant physiology at Munich, and afterwards, succeeded Christian Ernst Stahl as chair of botany at the University of Jena, where he was also director of the botanical"
"Otto Preminger Otto Ludwig Preminger (, ; 5 December 1905 – 23 April 1986) was an American theatre and film director, originally from Austria-Hungary. He directed more than 35 feature films in a five-decade career after leaving the theatre. He first gained attention for film noir mysteries such as ""Laura"" (1944) and ""Fallen Angel"" (1945), while in the 1950s and 1960s, he directed a number of high-profile adaptations of popular novels and stage works. Several of these later films pushed the boundaries of censorship by dealing with topics which were then taboo in Hollywood, such as drug addiction (""The Man"
"the Nazi Party had reached power, Klemperer left Germany and moved to the United States. He had previously converted to Catholicism, but returned to Judaism at the end of his life. In the U.S. he was appointed Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He was granted United States citizenship in 1937. In Los Angeles, he began to concentrate more on the standard works of the Germanic repertoire that would later bring him greatest acclaim, particularly the works of Beethoven, Brahms and Gustav Mahler, though he gave the Los Angeles premieres of some of fellow Los Angeles resident Arnold Schoenberg's"
"LTI – Lingua Tertii Imperii LTI – Lingua Tertii Imperii: Notizbuch eines Philologen (1947) is a book by Victor Klemperer, Professor of Literature at the Dresden University of Technology. The title, half in Latin and half in German, translates to ""The Language of the Third Reich: A Philologist's Notebook""; the book is published in English translation as The Language of the Third Reich. ""Lingua Tertii Imperii"" studies the way that Nazi propaganda altered the German language to inculcate people with National Socialist ideas. The book was written under the form of personal notes which Klemperer wrote in his diary, especially"