Otto Klemperer
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Otto Nossan Klemperer was a German composer and conductor, originally based in Germany, and then the United States, Hungary and finally, Great Britain. He began his career as an opera conductor, but h
Klemperer c. 1920
Kroll Opera House, 1930
Arnold Schoenberg gave Klemperer composition lessons.
The Hungarian State Opera, where Klemperer was musical director, 1947–1950
Gustav Mahler
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Gustav Mahler was an Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation. As a composer he acted as a bridge between the 19th-century tradition and the modernism of
Otto Klemperer
…He began his career as an opera conductor, but he was later better known as a conductor of symphonic music. A protégé of the composer and conductor Gustav Mahler, from 1907 Klemperer was appointed to a succession of increasingly senior conductorships in opera houses in and around Germany. Between 1927 and 1931…
Gustav Mahler, photographed in 1907 by Moritz Nähr at the end of his period as director of the Vienna Hofoper
Jihlava, the city where Mahler grew up
Mahler, as a student, was influenced by Richard Wagner and later became a leading interpreter of Wagner's operas.
Mahler's home in Leipzig, where he composed his First Symphony