Kleiber himself came to favor ¾, and that is the number favored today by the foremost proponents of the law, despite that ¾ also does not agree with much of the data, and is also troubled with exceptions.

A graph of Kleiber that includes ME, with ME as the X axis, metabolic rate as the Y axis, and a different curve for each mass, reveals a picture of the relation of biomass to metabolic rate that suggests all of evolution took place at less than 45 % ME.

Max Kleiber contributed the following allometric equation for relating the BMR to the body mass of an animal.

While his father noticed his son's musical talents, Erich Kleiber nevertheless dissuaded Carlos from pursuing a musical career: " What a pity the boy is musically talented ", wrote his father to a friend.

* December 14-Alban Berg's opera Wozzeck is given its first complete performance, in Berlin, conducted by Erich Kleiber.

Another Tristan of note is the live performance from the Teatro Colón ( Buenos Aires ), with Viorica Ursuleac as Brangäne, Set Svanholm as Tristan, Hans Hotter as Kurvenal, conducted by Erich Kleiber.

The failure of WBE to parse Kleiber to understand the nature of aging is due to their mishandling of its mathematics.

* July 3 – Carlos Kleiber, Austrian conductor ( d. 2004 )

Carlos Kleiber ( 3 July 1930 – 13 July 2004 ) was a German-born, Austrian classical conductor who spent most of his early life in Berlin, Buenos Aires, Vienna and New York City, and from the early 1960s his professional career in Germany.

In 2008 Rai Radio 3 ( Italian National Radio channel 3 ), inside its evening program Radio3Suite, broadcast a 10-episode program dedicated to Kleiber's legacy: Il Sorriso Della Musica: Un Ritratto Di Carlos Kleiber (" The Smile Of Music: A Portrait Of Carlos Kleiber "), organized and hosted by Andrea Ottonello, with participation by Claudio Abbado, Mirella Freni, Maurizio Pollini, and above all Carlos Kleiber's sister, Veronica.

On 26 September 2009, BBC Radio 3 transmitted a unique documentary, Who Was Carlos Kleiber?

* Puccini: La Bohème Ileana Cotrubaş with Luciano Pavarotti and Piero Cappuccilli, conducted by Carlos Kleiber, live recording at La Scala, Milan 22 March 1979 EX92T01 / 2 CD

Clemens Krauss became a prominent German conductor first at The Berlin State Opera in 1933 and then appointed as its director in 1935 due to Fritz Busch and Erich Kleiber resigning, respectively, their positions in protest over Nazi rule.

Erich Kleiber, " who programmed ( the opera ) on his own initiative " conducted the world premiere at the Berlin State Opera on 14 December 1925.

In the 1960s and 1970s, she became one of the most popular singers in her field internationally and she developed a comprehensive and widely-followed discography of works ranging from Johann Sebastian Bach to Richard Strauss, in cooperation with the most prominent conductors ( her mentor at times, Karajan, as well as Otto Klemperer, Eugen Jochum, Leonard Bernstein, Rafael Kubelík, Karl Böhm, Georg Solti, Carlos Kleiber, etc.

Susanna Mälkki, Music director, Ensemble Intercontemporain, and one of the conductors polled, commented: " Carlos Kleiber brought an incredible energy to music … Yes, he did have about five times as much time to rehearse than conductors do today, but he deserved it because his vision was remarkable, he knew what he wanted, and his attention to detail was truly inspiring.

Not least when so many named Carlos Kleiber, who in the course of his whole lifetime conducted fewer concerts than most of them manage in just a couple of years.

The Frankfurt years were particularly noteworthy for his performance of Berg's Wozzek soon after the Berlin premiere under Erich Kleiber, and the world premiere of Schonberg's Von heute auf morgen.

The opera, which Berg completed in 1922, was first performed on December 14, 1925, when Erich Kleiber directed the first performance in Berlin.

* 1930 – Carlos Kleiber, Austrian conductor ( d. 2004 )

With an Appendix ' Value-form Analytic Reconstruction of the Capital-Analysis ' by Michael Eldred, Marnie Hanlon, Lucia Kleiber and Mike Roth, Kurasje, Copenhagen.

* January 27 – Erich Kleiber, German conductor ( b. 1890 )

* July 13 – Carlos Kleiber, Austrian conductor ( b. 1930 )

* Verdi: La Traviata Ileana Cotrubaş with Placido Domingo and Sherrill Milnes, conducted by Carlos Kleiber, studio recording under the Deutsche Grammophon label.

When Karajan stepped down, the post was offered to Carlos Kleiber, but he declined.

The orchestra's guest directors included most of the leading conductors of the day: Monteux, Ernest Ansermet, Erich Kleiber, Erich Leinsdorf, Charles Munch, Fritz Reiner, George Szell, Bruno Walter, and the young Lorin Maazel, among others.

By 1939 the orchestra's board was planning an ambitious programme for 1940, with guests including Bruno Walter, Leopold Stokowski, Erich Kleiber and George Szell.

In addition to those mentioned above, others were conductors Daniel Barenboim, Leonard Bernstein, Eugen Jochum, Erich Kleiber, Serge Koussevitzky, Pierre Monteux, André Previn and Leopold Stokowski, and soloists Janet Baker, Dennis Brain, Alfred Brendel, Roberto Carnevale, Pablo Casals, Aldo Ciccolini, Clifford Curzon, Victoria de los Ángeles, Jacqueline du Pré, Kirsten Flagstad, Beniamino Gigli, Emil Gilels, Jascha Heifetz, Wilhelm Kempff, Fritz Kreisler, Julian Lloyd Webber, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, David Oistrakh, Luciano Pavarotti, Maurizio Pollini, Leontyne Price, Arthur Rubinstein, Elisabeth Schumann, Rudolf Serkin, Joan Sutherland, Richard Tauber and Eva Turner.

Kleiber was born as Karl Ludwig Kleiber in Berlin, the son of the Austrian conductor Erich Kleiber and American Ruth Goodrich, from California.

In 1940, the Kleiber family emigrated to Buenos Aires.

Carlos Kleiber initially studied chemistry in Zürich, but soon decided to dedicate himself to music.

During his freelance career, Kleiber restricted his conducting appearances to a select number of occasions.

In 1989, following Herbert von Karajan's resignation from the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Kleiber was offered, and declined, the post of the orchestra's next music director.

Kleiber returned to the Met in 1989 to conduct La traviata, and in 1990 for Otello and Der Rosenkavalier.

Kleiber kept out of the public eye and reportedly never gave an interview.

In the opinion of many of his colleagues and audiences, Kleiber was an eccentric genius who was amongst the greatest conductors of all time, despite the paucity of his appearances.

Produced by Paul Frankl, and presented by Ivan Hewett with research by Ruth Thomson, this feature was based on interviews with four who knew Kleiber well: tenor and conductor Plácido Domingo, music administrator and Intendant Sir Peter Jonas, music journalist and critic Christine Lemke-Matvey, and conductor – pianist Charles Barber.

In 1925, Alban Berg's Wozzeck, was given its premiere in a production conducted by Erich Kleiber in the composer's presence.

However, in 1934, when symphonic pieces from Alban Berg's Lulu were performed by Kleiber, the National Socialists provoked a scandal and he was forced into exile.

DVD Documentary – Carlos Kleiber: Traces to Nowhere A film by Eric Schultz Arthaus

* Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier conducted by Carlos Kleiber ( 1995 ) Deutsche Grammophon DVD only

* " Der Rosenkavalier " by Richard Strauss ( live recording Munich 1952: Octavian ), conductor Erich Kleiber, MYTO CD-Album ( 2007 )

* " Der Freischütz " by Carl Maria von Weber, conductor Erich Kleiber, live radio performance 1955, Opera D ' oro 2CD-Album ( 1998 )

In spite of this, the orchestra continued to attract notable musicians and conductors, such as Richard Burgin, who later became concertmaster for Serge Koussevitzky in Boston ; Max Rostal ; Ernst Glaser ; Robert Soetens, for whom Sergei Prokofiev's 2nd Violin Concerto was written ; and others who were driven out of Germany by the Nazi regime-Igor Stravinsky, Fritz Busch, Erich Kleiber, and Bruno Walter.

He has made numerous recordings, both in the classical and in the operetta repertoire, including Tannhäuser ( conducted by Sir Georg Solti, 1970 ), Die Meistersinger ( with Karajan, 1970 ), Parsifal ( Solti, 1971 – 72 ), Die tote Stadt ( with Carol Neblett, conducted by Erich Leinsdorf, 1975 ), The Bartered Bride ( opposite Teresa Stratas and Janet Perry, 1975 ), Der fliegende Holländer ( Solti, 1976 ), Ariadne auf Naxos ( Solti, 1977 ), Fidelio ( under Leonard Bernstein, 1978 ), Der Freischütz ( 1979 ), Lohengrin ( with Dunja Vejzovic as Ortrud, led by Karajan, 1975 – 81 ), Siegfried ( 1982 ), Tristan und Isolde ( with Carlos Kleiber conducting, 1980 – 82 ), Götterdämmerung ( 1983 ) and Die Frau ohne Schatten ( 1987 ).