Herbert von Karajan

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Born: April 5, 1908 – July 16, 1989
From: Salzburg, Austria

Biography

Herbert von Karajan (born Heribert Ritter[a] von Karajan; 5 April 1908 – 16 July 1989) was an Austrian conductor. He was principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic for 34 years. During the Nazi era, he debuted at the Salzburg Festival, with the Vienna Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic, and during the Second World War he conducted at the Berlin State Opera. Generally regarded as one of the greatest conductors of the 20th century, he was a controversial but dominant figure in European classical music from the mid-1950s until his death. Part of the reason for this was the large number of recordings he made and their prominence during his lifetime. By one estimate, he was the top-selling classical music recording artist of all time, having sold an estimated 200 million records. The Karajans were of Macedonian Greek ancestry. Herbert's great-great-grandfather, Georg Karajan (Geórgios Karajánnis, Greek: Γεώργιος Καραγιάννης), was born in Kozani, in the Ottoman province of Rumelia (now in Greece), leaving for Vienna in 1767, and eventually Chemnitz, Electorate of Saxony. His last name, like several other Ottoman-era ones, contains the Turkish language prefix "kara", which means "black". He and his brother participated in the establishment of Saxony's cloth industry, and both were ennobled for their services by Frederick Augustus III on 1 June 1792, thus adding the prefix "von" to the family name. This usage disappeared with the abolition of Austrian nobility after World War I. The surname Karajánnis became Karajan. Although traditional biographers ascribed a Slovak and Serbian or simply a Slavic origin to his mother, Karajan's family from the maternal side, through his grandfather who was born in the village of Mojstrana, Duchy of Carniola (today in Slovenia), was Slovene. Aromanian heritage has also been claimed. Through the Slovene line, Karajan was related to the Slovenian-Austrian composer Hugo Wolf. He also seems to have known some Slovene. Heribert Ritter von Karajan was born in Salzburg, Austria-Hungary, the second son of senior consultant Ernst von Karajan (1868–1951) and Marta (née Martha Kosmač; 1881–1954) (married 1905). He was a child prodigy at the piano. From 1916 to 1926, he studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg with Franz Ledwinka (piano), Franz Zauer (harmony), and Bernhard Paumgartner (composition and chamber music). He was encouraged to concentrate on conducting by Paumgartner, who detected his exceptional promise in that regard. In 1926 Karajan graduated from the conservatory and continued his studies at the Vienna Academy, studying piano with Josef Hofmann (a teacher with the same name as the pianist) and conducting with Alexander Wunderer and Franz Schalk. Karajan made his debut as a conductor in Salzburg on 22 January 1929. The performance got the attention of the general manager of the Stadttheater in Ulm and led to Karajan's first appointment as assistant Kapellmeister of the theater. His senior colleague in Ulm was Otto Schulmann. After Schulmann was forced to leave Germany in 1933 with the NSDAP takeover, Karajan was promoted to first Kapellmeister. ... Source: Article "Herbert von Karajan" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Works

89 films

La Bohème

19657.7

The Clouzot Scandal

20176.5

Il Trovatore - Verdi

19786.3

Der Rosenkavalier

19627.5

Pastorale

19677.2

Inside Karajan

2008

Der Rosenkavalier

198410.0

Karajan: Richard Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie / Also Sprach Zarathustra

2008

Vivaldi - The Four Seasons / Von Karajan, Mutter, Berlin Philharmonic

1990

Karajan · Die Symphonien

2005

Don Carlo

1986

Puccini's Madama Butterfly

19749.5

Karajan: Beethoven - Symphonies 1, 2 & 3

2005

Karajan: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no. 9

2008

Karajan Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem

1978

Karajan: New Year's Eve Concert

197810.0

Herbert von Karajan: Verdi: Requiem

19848.0

Herbert von Karajan: Live in Osaka

1984

Beethoven - Symphony No. 8

1971

Menuhin and Karajan - The Concert Great Moments in Music

1966

Rostropovich Life & Art

20077.0

Herbert von Karajan: Verdi: Don Carlo

1986

Karajan in Rehearsal

1965

Karajan: Beethoven - Symphonies 7, 8 & 9

200510.0

Karajan: Beethoven - Symphonies 4, 5 & 6

2005

Karajan dirigiert Beethovens fünfte Symphonie

1973

Cavalleria rusticana / Pagliacci

19708.5

Karajan: Mozart - Coronation Mass

1985

Herbert von Karajan: Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6

2001

Bach: Magnificat - Karajan

1984

Herbert von Karajan – The Second Life

2012

Brahms: The Symphonies

19809.0

Karajan - Beethoven: The Symphonies

2008

Karajan In Concert

2008

Karajan conducts Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (Orch. Ravel)

1992

Karajan: Richard Strauss: Tod und Verklarung / Metamorphosen

2008

Beethoven: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 61

1984

Ludwig Van Beethoven: 9 Symphonies

2023

Herbert Von Karajan: Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4

2000

Herbert Von Karajan: Dvorák - Symphony No. 9

1999

Karajan: Beethoven: Symphony 1 & 8

1984

Impressions of Herbert von Karajan

1978

Dvorak: Symphony No. 9: From the New World

19859.0

Maestro, Maestro! Herbert von Karajan

1999

Karajan: Beauty As I See It

2008

Karajan: Beethoven: Violin Concerto

1984

Karajan: Strauss: Death and Transfiguration & Metamorphosen

1984

Rostropovich: L'archet Indomptable

201910.0

Herbert Von Karajan: Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

2003

Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana & Leoncavallo: Pagliacci

2018

Karajan: Opening Concert - Berlin 750 Years

2003

Karajan Tchaikovsky Symphonies 4, 5 & 6

2007

Karajan: Brahms: German Requiem

1985

Karajan: Antonin Dvorak: Symphony No. 8

1985

Karajan: 1988 New Year's Concert - Prokofiev & Tchaikovsky

1999

Karajan: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Requiem

198610.0

The Art of Conducting: Great Conductors of the Past

19939.0

Don Giovanni

19878.7

Karajan: Portrait of a Maestro

20197.0

Beethoven Symphony No. 9

19779.0

Karajan - Der Maestro und sein Festival

2017

Karajan conducts Ravel and Debussy

1979

Wagner: Das Rheingold

19782.0

Grace Bumbry is Carmen

2024

Otello

19738.0

Herbert Von Karajan - New Year's Concert Vienna 1987

19877.0

Beethoven - Symphony No. 7

19718.0

Karajan: Bach: Violin Concerto No. 2: New Year's Eve Concert 1984

1984

Herbert von Karajan: Maestro for the Screen

2008

Yehudi Menuhin und Herbert von Karajan – Mozart: Konzert für Violine und Orchester Nr. 5

19667.0

Von Reinhardt bis Karajan - 50 Jahre Salzburger Festspiele

1970

Tchaikovsky: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in B-Flat, Op. 23 (Karajan, Weissenberg, 1967)

1967

The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 1977

1977

Verdi: Falstaff

2015

Eroica

197210.0

Karajan: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphonies nos. 5-8

2008

Karajan: Mozart Violin Concerto No 5, Dvorak Symphony No.9

1966

Beethoven · Missa Solemnis (Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan)

20089.0

Verdi – Messa da Requiem

19679.0

Beethoven - Symphony No. 5

1971

Karajan: Richard Strauss: Don Quixote / Ein Heldenleben

2008

Karajan - Bruckner - Symphonies Nos. 8 & 9

200710.0

Neujahrskonzert der Wiener Philharmoniker 1987

1987

Herbert von Karajan conducts Beethoven's Symphony No. 9

1986

Herbert von Karajan, Symphonie n°5 Beethoven

1967

Karajan dirigiert Beethovens Siebente (Directors Cut)

2010

Karajan: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphonies nos. 1-4

2008

Herbert Von Karajan - Berliner Philarmoniker - Debussy: La Mer, Prélude A L'après-midi D'un Faune - Ravel: Daphnis Et Chloé Suite No. 2

1985

Clouzot filme Karajan : la Symphonie du Nouveau Monde de Dvořák

2026