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Hertha Klust (1907 – March 1970) was a German pianist.




Career


Born in Berlin, Klust, who had trained as a singer (mezzo-soprano), worked from 1949, despite increasing hearing loss, as a répétiteur at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where she musically formed a number of later important singers, including Pilar Lorengar. In the concert hall, she made a name for herself above all as a song accompanist. Besides Ernst Haefliger and Josef Greindl, she accompanied the young Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, 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 Titania-Palast with a rendition of Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin and continued into the late 1950s.
In 1954 Klust was presented the Berliner Kunstpreis.




Discography


Recordings with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau:

Johannes Brahms: Vier ernste Gesänge (1949)
Gustav Mahler: 3 Lieder from Des Knaben Wunderhorn (1952)
Johannes Brahms: Die schöne Magelone (1953)
Franz Schubert: Die Winterreise (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, 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. Stuttgart 1987, pp. 76–80
Österreichische Musikzeitschrift, vol. 25, issue 3 (March 1970): IN MEMORIAM: Gottfried Kassowitz, Hertha Klust on Walther de Gruyer website.




References






External links


Literature by and about Hertha Klust in the German National Library catalogue
Hertha Klust discography at Discogs

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Hertha Klust
• Winterreise
• Vier ernste Gesänge
• International Classical Music Awards
• Pilar Lorengar
• Berliner Kunstpreis
• Käthe Heinemann