Hertha Klust (1907 – March 1970) was a German pianist.
Career
Born in Berlin, Klust, who had trained as a singer (
mezzo-soprano
A mezzo-soprano or mezzo (; ; meaning "half soprano") is a type of classical female singing voice whose vocal range lies between the soprano and the contralto voice types. The mezzo-soprano's vocal range usually extends from the A below middle C ...
), worked from 1949, despite increasing hearing loss, as a
répétiteur
A (from the French verb meaning 'to repeat, to go over, to learn, to rehearse') is an accompanist, tutor or coach of ballet dancers or opera singers. A feminine form, , also appears but is comparatively rare.
Opera
In opera, a is the person ...
at the
Deutsche Oper Berlin
The Deutsche Oper Berlin is a German opera company located in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin. The resident building is the country's second largest opera house (after Munich's) and also home to the Berlin State Ballet.
Since 2004, the De ...
, where she musically formed a number of later important singers, including
Pilar Lorengar
Lorenza Pilar García Seta (16 January 1928 – 2 June 1996), known professionally as Pilar Lorengar, was a Spanish ( Aragonese) soprano. She was best known for her interpretations of opera and the Spanish genre Zarzuela, and as a soprano she wa ...
. In the concert hall, she made a name for herself above all as a song accompanist. Besides
Ernst Haefliger
Ernst Haefliger (6 July 191917 March 2007) was a Swiss tenor.
Biography
Haefliger was born in Davos, Switzerland, on 6 July 1919 and studied at the Wettinger Seminary and the Zürich Conservatory. Later he became a pupil of Fernando Carpi in G ...
and
Josef Greindl
Josef Greindl (23 December 1912 - 16 April 1993) was a German operatic bass, remembered mainly for his performances of Wagnerian roles at Bayreuth beginning in 1943.
Josef Greindl was born in Munich and studied at the Munich Music Academy with P ...
, she accompanied the young
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (28 May 1925 – 18 May 2012) was a German lyric baritone and conductor of classical music, one of the most famous Lieder (art song) performers of the post-war period, best known as a singer of Franz Schubert's Lieder, ...
, which is documented by numerous radio and vinyl recordings of the 1950s. The joint concert activity with Fischer-Dieskau began as early as July 1948 in the Berlin with a rendition of Schubert's ''
Die schöne Müllerin
' (,"The Fair Maid of the Mill", Op. 25, D. 795), is a song cycle by Franz Schubert from 1823 based on 20 poems by Wilhelm Müller. It is the first of Schubert's two seminal cycles (preceding ''Winterreise'')'','' and a pinnacle of ''Lied'' re ...
'' and continued into the late 1950s.
In 1954 Klust was presented the
Berliner Kunstpreis
The ''Berliner Kunstpreis'' (Berlin Art Prize), officially Großer Berliner Kunstpreis, is a prize for the arts by the City of Berlin. It was first awarded in 1948 in several fields of art. Since 1971, it has been awarded by the Academy of Arts ( ...
.
Discography
Recordings with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau:
* Johannes Brahms: ''
Vier ernste Gesänge
''Vier ernste Gesänge'' (''Four Serious Songs''), Op. 121, is a cycle of four songs for bass and piano by Johannes Brahms. As in his ''Ein deutsches Requiem'', the texts are compiled from the Luther Bible. Three songs deal with death and the ...
'' (1949)
* Gustav Mahler: 3 Lieder from ''
Des Knaben Wunderhorn
''Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Alte deutsche Lieder'' (German language, German; "The boy's magic horn: old German songs") is a collection of German folk poems and songs edited by Ludwig Achim von Arnim, Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano, and publi ...
'' (1952)
* Johannes Brahms: ''
Die schöne Magelone'' (1953)
* Franz Schubert: ''
Die Winterreise
''Winterreise'' (, ''Winter Journey'') is a song cycle for voice and piano by Franz Schubert ( D. 911, published as Op. 89 in 1828), a setting of 24 poems by German poet Wilhelm Müller. It is the second of Schubert's two song cycles on Müller' ...
'' (Konzertmitschnitt 1953)
* Robert Schumann: ''
Liederkreis'', op. 35 (Konzertmitschnitt 1954)
* Ludwig van Beethoven: Sechs Lieder von Gellert, op. 48 und 7 Lieder von Goethe (1955)
* Robert Schumann: Liederkreis, op. 24 and ''Der arme Peter'' op. 53,3 (1956)
* Hugo Wolf: Lieder from the ''
Italienisches Liederbuch
(English: Italian songbook) is a collection of translations of anonymous Italian poems and folk songs into German by Paul Heyse
Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse (; 15 March 1830 – 2 April 1914) was a distinguished German writer and translator. ...
'', aus den Goethe-Liedern, aus den Mörike-Liedern (1948 - 53)
Recording with Ernst Haefliger:
* Liederabend (Lieder by Schumann, Schoeck, Kodály and Wolf, 1958)
Recordings with Josef Greindl:
* Carl Loewe: Balladen (1951)
* Franz Schubert: Die Winterreise (1957)
Further reading
* Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau: ''Nachklang. Ansichten und Erinnerungen''.
''Nachklang. Ansichten und Erinnerungen''
on WorldCat Stuttgart 1987,
* Österreichische Musikzeitschrift, vol. 25, issue 3 (March 1970)
IN MEMORIAM: Gottfried Kassowitz, Hertha Klust
on Walther de Gruyer website.
References
External links
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1907 births
1970 deaths
Musicians from Berlin
German classical pianists
Women classical pianists