Herman Klein

Klein wrote over half a dozen books about music and singers, as well as English translations of operas and art songs.

Once in Norwich, his father became a professor of foreign languages at the King Edward VI Grammar School, and his mother taught dance.

[2] The younger Klein's five brothers were Max, a violinist, Charles, a dramatist; Manuel, a composer; Alfred, an actor; and Philip.

Although his forename was frequently spelled as "Hermann" until World War I, he "deprecated any foreign pronunciation of it and was proud of his British citizenship and upbringing".

[7] On 19 February 1890, he married a 17-year-old Australian-born heiress Kathleen Clarice Louise Cornwell, later a popular writer, at the West London Synagogue.

[8] Their children included two writers: Adrian Bernard L. Klein (1892–1969), who changed his name to Adrian Cornwell-Clyne and wrote books on photography and cinematography, and Denise Naomi Klein (1897–1985), who under her first married name, Denise Robins, became a best-selling romantic novelist[9] and was the first president of the Romantic Novelists' Association (1960–1966).

[10] During their marriage, Kathleen Clarice began an affair with a young man, Herbert Arthur Berkeley Dealtry (b.

[1] For thirteen years, Klein was a vocal teacher at the Guildhall School of Music in London and also trained many professional singers privately.

He began writing for The Examiner in 1879, and then for The Sunday Times (1881–1901), The Illustrated London News, The Citizen, and the Lady's Pictorial.

[1] Klein eventually came to hold an unfavourable view of American musical life and returned to Britain in May 1909, continuing to teach and write.

[4] He wrote over half a dozen books about music and singers, as well as English translations of operas and art songs.