Hertha Klust
Hertha Klust was a German pianist.
Career
Born in Berlin, Klust, who had trained as a singer, 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
- Gustav Mahler: 3 Lieder from Des Knaben Wunderhorn
- Johannes Brahms: Die schöne Magelone
- Franz Schubert: Die Winterreise
- Robert Schumann: Liederkreis, op. 35
- Ludwig van Beethoven: Sechs Lieder von Gellert, op. 48 und 7 Lieder von Goethe
- Robert Schumann: Liederkreis, op. 24 and Der arme Peter op. 53,3
- Hugo Wolf: Lieder from the Italienisches Liederbuch, aus den Goethe-Liedern, aus den Mörike-Liedern
- Liederabend
- Carl Loewe: Balladen
- Franz Schubert: Die Winterreise