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Herbert von Karajan 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 World War II he conducted at the Berlin State Opera. Generally regarded as one of the greatest conductors of the 20th century, he was a controversial but dominan…
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Born 5 April 1908 · Died 16 July 1989 · Q154895
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“I am not interested in publicity. I can only hope there is an advantage to my being known in the world, that through the interest people take in me, they will then move on to an interest in music.”
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Colin's Column: Warner Classics/Herbert von Karajan’s Berliner Philharmoniker recordings of Sibelius’s Symphonies 4 & 5, En Saga and Tapiola, remastered for SACD.
RTVE.es: Grandes directores - Herbert Von Karajan - 15/08/26
Moviefone: Herbert von Karajan
Euronews: The winner takes it all: Salzburg hosts the final of the Herbert von Karajan Young Conductors Award
Moviefone: Herbert von Karajan – The Second Life
The Theater Aachen removed a bust of Karajan from the foyer of the house due to his significant involvement in the Nazi era, planning to replace it with a bust of Mozart
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The award was replaced by the Herbert von Karajan Prize, presented at the Salzburg Easter Festival
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Anne-Sophie Mutter, who had made her debut with Karajan in 1977, became the award's first recipient
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Died 1989-07-16.
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“A New York City taxi driver asked him where to go; Karajan replied "No matter - I am in demand everywhere.”
After nearly 30 years under Karajan's direction, noting that "what rivets one's attention is the beauty and perfection of the sounds
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Won Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal (1984).
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A bronze bust of Karajan was unveiled in the foyer of West Berlin's new State Theatre
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“a much deeper influence, affinity, kinship—call it what you like—[in Sibelius”
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When he conducted two concerts as part of the Berliner Festspiele in which he conducted Mahler's Ninth Symphony
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Awarded Ernst von Siemens Music Prize (1977).
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Karajan was awarded the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize
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With the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra and recorded it for Deutsche Grammophon
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Career landmark: music director (1969–1971).
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And Wagner's Siegfried in 1969 and Best Classical Orchestral Performance for a Beethoven symphony cycle in 1978
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Awarded Austrian Decoration for Science and Art (1961).
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Received the Austrian Medal for Science and Art
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Performed Ildebrando Pizzetti's 1958 opera Assassinio nella cattedrale
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Career landmark: music director (1956–1964).
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Karajan was appointed principal conductor for life of the Berlin Philharmonic as Furtwängler's successor
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And another for Philips in 1980—and his colleague Otto Klemperer hailed the Vienna State Opera production as "really excellent"
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Career landmark: principal conductor (1954–1989).
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And 1952, Karajan conducted at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus
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To 1955, and then three times with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra for Deutsche Grammophon in 1961–62, 1975–76, and 1982–84
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Karajan became artistic director of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, Vienna
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Karajan gave his first postwar concert in Vienna with the Vienna Philharmonic, but was banned from further conducting by the Soviet occupation authorities because of his Nazi party membership
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The Berlin State Opera appointed him State Kapellmeister and conductor of concerts by the Prussian State Orchestra
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Karajan was noted for his studious perfectionism in his symphonic recordings, as well as numerous opera recordings by Verdi and Puccini, in particular those with Maria Callas
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Karajan made his debut with the Berlin Philharmonic
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Career landmark: music director (1935–1942).
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Implying that he was not eager to pursue membership
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When he became Germany's youngest Generalmusikdirektor, at Aachen, and performed as a guest conductor in Bucharest, Brussels, Stockholm, Amsterdam and Paris
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Karajan led the Vienna Philharmonic for the first time, and from 1934 to 1941, he was engaged to conduct operatic and orchestra concerts at the Theater Aachen
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Karajan made his conducting debut at the Salzburg Festival with the Walpurgisnacht Scene in Max Reinhardt's production of Faust
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With the Nazi Party takeover, Karajan was promoted to first Kapellmeister
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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 Sc
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Born 1908-04-05.
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