Otto Klemperer: Volume 2, 1933-1973: His Life and Times

by Peter Heyworth

Otto Klemperer was one of the great conductors of the century. This second volume of Peter Heyworth's celebrated biography follows the conductor's fortunes from his time as an emigre in the United States to his final years as conductor of the Philharmonia Orchestra of London. His time in America was frustrating and unhappy. He became chief conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, but failed to secure important engagements on the East Coast. Bedevilled...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521244889
• ISBN13: 9780521244886
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 500 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.0" x 9.7"