Walter Legge & Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

Bravo! I love your posts on Elisabeth. I never met Walter Legge, but my father published Elisabeth's book on/by him, "On and Off the Record" at Scribner (it was commissioned by one of our editors), and I met her several times in connection with it. I adored her (as well as her recordings, my 'gold standard') and visited her in Schruns in early 2006 right after her 90th birthday and wrote a profile on her ("The Voice of Mozart") for Opera News, which she read two weeks before she died and phoned me to say it was her favorite. I added the full version of our conversations as an epilogue to Kirsten Liese's 2007 photo biography of Schwarzkopf for its US/UK edition which I translated and edited in 2008. Recently I published an article, long overdue, refuting Jefferson's absurd and malicious charges (mostly innuendo) that she was a young Nazi. It was published by The New Criterion in May 2024, and is on line: "Elisabeth Schwarzkopf: Confronting a Calumny" by Charles Scribner III. I am thinking now of writing a personal biography of her, and would love to interview you. Your posts are the best I've ever read on the subject!