Lotte Klemperer, the daughter of conductor Otto Klemperer, died on 1 July, The Independent of London reports. She was 79.
As a teenager, she accompanied her father as he fled Nazi Germany for Switzerland and then the United States. By the time she was 18, according to The Independent, she was taking on the role of buffer between her parents and the outside world, acting as interpreter when the press questioned her mother about her father's "unfettered behavior."
That role expanded when Otto Klemperer returned to Europe after the war, and more so when his wife died in 1956 and Lotte Klemperer became his primary companion and chief guardian of both his business affairs and his growing fame. After her father's death in 1973, she devoted herself to preserving his legacy, "keeping a discreet but firm eye on anything to do with him," the paper says, and helping to compile anthologies of both of her parents' writings.
— Ben Mattison
"Lotte
Klemperer"
Martin Anderson - The Independent [London] - 10 July
2003
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