Basic Documents
Apple iBooks: Lotte Lehmann & Her Legacy Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 are now available on this website.
Updated complete Lehmann biography by Beaumont Glass
Commercial Discography Revised January 2020
Lotte Lehmann & Her Legacy iBook Volume IX is titled Documents
Lehmann Sings
1939 Met Der Rosenkavalier (excerpts) with commentary
1940 Met (in Boston) Die Walküre (excerpts) with commentary
Listen for the difference sound engineers can make on these radio broadcast recordings. Mostly Lieder, you’ll also find Puccini, Wagner, etc.
Live (outdoor) 1946 Seattle with orchestra
Test pressings sent by UCSB (Lieder, opera, etc.)
Recently compiled Die schöne Müllerin with her singing, teaching, and art
Introduction to art song using Lehmann
Lehmann’s Writing
As many of Lehmann’s poems as could be located.
Letters Mme Lehmann sent to me (Gary Hickling).
Lehmann’s novelette: Of Heaven, Hell and Hollywood
Lehmann’s earliest publication, a small book of poems called Verse in Prosa
Lehmann’s diary from her 1937 tour of Australia called Beneath the Southern Cross
Lehmann’s Goering story with Dr. Kater’s version
“The Singing Actress Attacks Her Part”, from the April 1937 Theatre Arts Monthly
Thomas Pasatieri’s Sieben Lehmann-Lieder
Read what she wrote about Bruno Walter. Or Der Rosenkavalier. The foreword and post script Lehmann wrote to her autobiography are famous and we offer, on the same page, her introduction to her book More than Singing. Lehmann wrote her last book, Eighteen Song Cycles, in 1972. You may read the published as well as the unpublished (and Lehmann-candid) introduction. The page called “misc” writings is interesting to scroll through. You can find Lehmann poetry, articles on Toscanini, her feelings about her own recordings and more.
Critics, fans, and students write
Lehmann-related pages from Vincent Sheean’s First and Last Love
Quotes from many sources, Steane, etc.
Quotes from various sources on Lehmann’s private life
Beaumont Glass on knowing and working with Lehmann
Images (newspaper clippings, etc.) sent by UCSB
Marcia Davenport’s “Profile” on Lehmann from the 23 February 1935 New Yorker
Recital and Concert Programs, Reviews
Newspaper Clippings (Europe)
Miscellaneous
Lehmann hosts a film with her students: “An Evening with Lotte Lehmann”
Lehmann’s Farewell Recital photos, speech, etc.
Daniele Palma’s paper on Lehmann’s singing of Dichterliebe
Mixed documents of many sources
Booklet for Lehmann’s “Great Recordings of the Century”
1935 TIME magazine article on Lehmann
Music & Arts CD-ROM of the texts and translations of their “125th Birthday Tribute”
Music & Arts CD-ROM of the Beaumont Glass short Lehmann biography for their “125th Birthday Tribute”
“Notes on Singing” an article based on an interview with Lehmann
Photos from Das Interessante Blatt and Die Bühne, during Lehmann’s Vienna years
Lehmann’s Roles and Song Titles
Lotte Lehmann League and Lotte Lehmann Foundation Newsletters
Recording Data
Lehmann Interview on Recordings
CD Index: to help you find the particular song or aria on CD
Odeon Records catalog pages that include Lehmann (1924-1934)
Hand-written pages of off-the-air tapes in the Rhodes Collection
Lotte Lehmann & Her Legacy iBooks
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