Hertha Klust

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 ==