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 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, Österreichische Musikzeitschrift, vol. 25, issue 3 (March 1970): IN MEMORIAM: Gottfried Kassowitz, Hertha Klust on Walther de Gruyer website.