Otto Klemperer HonRAM (1885-1973) was one of the leading conductors of the 20th-century and a distinguished authority in particular on the Austro-German repertoire. The conductor’s daughter, the late Lotte Klemperer, presented the Klemperer Collection to the Academy in 1973.

The gift includes letters, photographs and books, and scores with Klemperer’s own markings.

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Art and iconography – portrait, photographs
Musical accessories – batons
Documents – digitised pages from scores by Beethoven and Bruckner, with his markings; letter; autograph
Objects – sculpture

Images on this page (from left to right):

- Sculpture: Portrait head of Otto Klemperer. Sculpted by Nigel Konstam, 1982

- Beethoven Neunte Symphonie, p.214, orchestral score with markings by Otto Klemperer.