Otto Klemperer
1885 to 1973
9 documented presences
9 places
Quo Fuit places 9 dated presences for Otto Klemperer across 9 places, from 1885 to 1973. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Otto Nossan Klemperer (14 May 1885 to 6 July 1973) was a German conductor and composer, originally based in Germany, and then the United States, Hungary and finally, Great Britain.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Where Otto Klemperer was documented, and when
14 May 1885exact date
Breslauattested
“Otto Nossan Klemperer was born on 14 May 1885 in Breslau, Province of Silesia, in what was then the Imperial German state of Prussia (now Wrocław, Poland).”
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1910 to 1912period
Hamburg State Operaattested
“From Prague, Klemperer moved to be assistant conductor at the Hamburg State Opera (1910–1912), where the sopranos Lotte Lehmann and Elisabeth Schumann made their joint débuts under his direction.”
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1910 to 1912period
Pragueattested
“From Prague, Klemperer moved to be assistant conductor at the Hamburg State Opera (1910–1912), where the sopranos Lotte Lehmann and Elisabeth Schumann made their joint débuts under his direction.”
source: Wikipedia: Otto Klemperer
1910 to 1912period
Hamburgattested
“From Prague, Klemperer moved to be assistant conductor at the Hamburg State Opera (1910–1912), where the sopranos Lotte Lehmann and Elisabeth Schumann made their joint débuts under his direction.”
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1947year
Viennaattested
“On another tour in 1947 Klemperer conducted The Marriage of Figaro at the Salzburg Festival and Don Giovanni in Vienna.”
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1947year
Salzburgattested
“On another tour in 1947 Klemperer conducted The Marriage of Figaro at the Salzburg Festival and Don Giovanni in Vienna.”
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1954year
Switzerlandattested
“With the help of an accomplished lawyer, he secured temporary six-month passports in 1954, and moved with his wife and daughter to Switzerland.”
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October 1958month
Bayreuth Festivalattested
“Wieland Wagner invited Klemperer to conduct Tristan und Isolde at the 1959 Holland Festival, and they agreed to collaborate on Die Meistersinger at Bayreuth, but neither plan was realised, because Klemperer suffered a further physical se…”
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6 July 1973exact date
Zürichattested
“Heyworth writes about the conductor's last years: Klemperer retired to his home in Zürich, where he died in his sleep on 6 July 1973.”
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Places Otto Klemperer is documented in
Breslau1 presence · 1885Hamburg1 presence · 1910Prague1 presence · 1910Salzburg1 presence · 1947Switzerland1 presence · 1954Vienna1 presence · 1947Zürich1 presence · 1973
Bayreuth Festival1 presence · 1958
Hamburg State Opera1 presence · 1910
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1902 to 1905period
Stern Conservatorymentioned
“Kwast moved to Berlin, first to the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory in 1902 and then to the Stern Conservatory in 1905.”
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1902 to 1905period
Berlinmentioned
“Kwast moved to Berlin, first to the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory in 1902 and then to the Stern Conservatory in 1905.”
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1905year
Berlinmentioned
“In 1905, Klemperer met Gustav Mahler at a rehearsal of the latter's Second Symphony in Berlin.”
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1906year
New Yorkmentioned
“The notices praised the conducting – Oscar Thompson wrote in Musical America that the performance was the best he had heard since Mahler conducted the work in New York in 1906 – but the ticket sales were as poor as Judson had predicted,…”
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May 1906month
Metropol (Berlin)mentioned
“In the interim he made his public debut as a conductor in May 1906, taking over from Fried after the first night of the fifty-performance run of Max Reinhardt's production of Orpheus in the Underworld at the New Theatre, Berlin.”
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1907year
Viennamentioned
“He later made a piano arrangement (now lost) of the symphony, which he played to the composer in 1907 when visiting Vienna.”
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1907year
New German Theatrementioned
“On the strength of Mahler's endorsement, Klemperer was appointed chorus master and assistant conductor at the New German Theatre in Prague in 1907.”
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1907year
Praguementioned
“On the strength of Mahler's endorsement, Klemperer was appointed chorus master and assistant conductor at the New German Theatre in Prague in 1907.”
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1908year
Praguementioned
“Hearing Debussy's opera Pelléas et Mélisande in Prague in 1908 changed Klemperer's compositional ideas.”
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1912 to 1917period
Barmenmentioned
“His first chief conductorship was at Barmen (1912–1913), after which he moved to the much larger Strasbourg Opera (1914–1917) as deputy to Pfitzner.”
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1923year
Berlin State Operamentioned
“In 1923, Klemperer turned down an invitation from the Berlin State Opera to succeed Leo Blech as musical director; he declined the post, because he did not believe he would be given enough artistic authority over productions.”
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1923year
Berlinmentioned
“In 1923, Klemperer turned down an invitation from the Berlin State Opera to succeed Leo Blech as musical director; he declined the post, because he did not believe he would be given enough artistic authority over productions.”
source: Wikipedia: Otto Klemperer
1924 to 1927period
Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbadenmentioned
“The following year, he became conductor at the Prussian State Theatre in Wiesbaden (1924–1927), a smaller theatre than others in which he had worked, but one where he had the control he sought over stagings.”
source: Wikipedia: Otto Klemperer
1924 to 1927period
Wiesbadenmentioned
“The following year, he became conductor at the Prussian State Theatre in Wiesbaden (1924–1927), a smaller theatre than others in which he had worked, but one where he had the control he sought over stagings.”
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1924 to 1936period
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March 1948month
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Documented at the same place, the same year
Alphonse MuchaPrague · 1910Carl WernickeBreslau · 1885Luise RainerHamburg · 1910Thomas LuckmannVienna · 1947Zhou EnlaiSwitzerland · 1954Ahmed Ben BellaSwitzerland · 1954Arthur HoneggerSwitzerland · 1954
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