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May 14, 1885 ~ Orchestral conductor, composer Otto Klemperer, full name Otto Nossan Klemperer, born in Breslau, German Empire ~ Regarded as one of the premier conductors of his day. Of Jewish descent fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s. Has Worked with the Strasbourg Opera, the Cologne Opera, the Kroll Opera and the Los Angeles Philharmonic ~ Klemperer passed away in 1973