France promoted her from the Golden Palm to Officer of the Légion d’honneur (“Offizier der Ehrenlegion”) 1931. Lehmann earned the Ehrenring der Stadt Wien [the Honor or Dedication Ring of the City of Vienna], 1962. From Germany, Lehmann received the “Großes Deutsches Verdienstkreuz” [the Great German Service Cross], 8 February 1964. Salzburg presented Lehmann with the Große Silbermedaille der Stadt Salzburg, [the Great Silver Medal of the City of Salzburg], 1969. Works Eighteen song cycles: studies in their interpretation (London: Cassell, 1971) Eternal Flight, translated by Elsa Krauch (NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1937) Five operas and Richard Strauss. (New York, Macmillan Co. [1964]) Midway in my Song: The Autobiography of Lotte Lehmann (NY: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1938) More Than Singing: The Interpretation of Songs (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1945) My Many Lives (NY: Boosey & Hawkes, 1948) Recordings Great Recordings of the Century: EMI: CDH 7610422: Lotte Lehmann: Operatic Arias Great Opera Recordings: NAXOS: 8.110250-51: Die Walküre: Acts I & II Immortal Performances: NAXOS: 8.110034-36: Der Rosenkavalier (live 1939) Great Opera Recordings: NAXOS: 8.110191-92: Der Rosenkavalier (1933) Great Singers: NAXOS: 8.11244: Lotte Lehmann: Lieder Recordings, Vol. 3 Masterworks Portrait: Sony Music: MPK 47682: Lotte Lehmann: Songs from Vienna Masterworks Portrait: CBS: MPK 44840: Lotte Lehmann/Bruno Walter: Schumann: Frauenliebe und -Leben, Dichterliebe Notes Sources Nigel Douglas, Legendary Voices (London: Deutsch, 1992) Beaumont Glass, Lotte Lehmann: A Life in Opera and Song (Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, 1988) Alan Jefferson, Lotte Lehmann, 1888–1976: A Centenary Biography (London : J. MacRae Books, 1988); German version: Lotte Lehmann: Eine Biographie (1991) Michael H. Kater, Never Sang for Hitler: The Life and Times of Lotte Lehmann (NY: Cambridge University Press, 2008) Kathy H. Brown, "Lotte Lehmann in America: Her Legacy as Artist Teacher" (Missoula, Montana: The College Music Society, 2012) Further reading Gary Hickling, "Lotte Lehmann & Her Legacy: Volume I - IX“ (Apple iBook, 2015–2021) External links LotteLehmannLeague.org Lotte Lehmann papers at the University of California, Santa Barbara Library Gary Hickling Collection on Lotte Lehmann, Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound 1888 births 1976 deaths People from Perleberg German operatic sopranos People from the Province of Brandenburg Burials at the Vienna Central Cemetery Emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 20th-century German women opera singers Music Academy of the West faculty Music Academy of the West founders Lohengrin