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Dominique Pagani ranks Otto Klemperer among the ten greatest conductors of the twentieth century, and calls him one of its charismatic conductors12. He speaks of him mainly in a "Musicosophie" session where he sets him beside Victor Klemperer and Bruno Walter in connection with Wagner. He does not describe the link to Victor the same way from one session to the next: he first calls him a cousin, then a brother. He also talks about the man: his distrust of morality, the illness that forces him to conduct seated, an exile he takes badly, and then a return in which he is not given the best orchestras3. He names several recordings as references: Wagner's Siegfried Idyll and the adagio of Mahler's Ninth Symphony4. He also considers his St Matthew Passion, with Fischer-Dieskau, the most beautiful version of the work5.
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Who is this?Otto Nossan Klemperer (German: ; 14 May 1885 – 6 July 1973) 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 he was later better known as a conductor of symphonic music. […]
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