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I did a little research on Klemperer and it would seem that he had a....

rather disappointing musical career and MANY emotional and personal problems and it wasn't until the end of his life that he began to know some great appreciation... I found this little tidbit of info. on his slow tempi with regard to the Eroica.... "Around 1954, Herbert von Karajan flew especially to hear Klemperer conduct a performance of the Eroica, and later he said to him: "I have come only to thank you, and say that I hope I shall live to conduct the Funeral March as well as you have done"....


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