Herbert von Karajan
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- April 5, 1908
- Died
- July 16, 1989 (aged 81)
- Birthplace
- 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.
Known For
The Clouzot Scandal
Il Trovatore - Verdi
La Bohème - Teatro alla Scala
Don Giovanni
Bizet Carmen
Der Rosenkavalier
Verdi – Messa da Requiem
Karajan: Beethoven - Symphonies 7, 8 & 9
Puccini's Madama Butterfly
The Art of Conducting: Great Conductors of the Past
Cavalleria rusticana / Pagliacci
Wagner: Die Walküre
Filmography
Grace Bumbry is Carmen
Movie · as Conductor
Please Call Me Claudio: The Visionary Claudio Abbado
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Ludwig Van Beethoven: 9 Symphonies
Movie · as Conductor
Karajan: Portrait of a Maestro
Movie · as Self - Music Conductor (archive footage)
Rostropovich: L'archet Indomptable
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana & Leoncavallo: Pagliacci
Movie · as Conductor
Karajan - Der Maestro und sein Festival
Movie · as Self (archive)
The Clouzot Scandal
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Verdi: Falstaff
Movie · as Self - Conductor
Herbert Von Karajan: Dvorak - Symphonies Nos. 8 & 9
Movie · as Self
Herbert von Karajan – The Second Life
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Karajan dirigiert Beethovens Siebente (Directors Cut)
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Karajan - Beethoven: The Symphonies
Movie · as Self - Conductor
Karajan: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphonies nos. 1-4
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Karajan: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphonies nos. 5-8
Movie
Karajan: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no. 9
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Karajan: Richard Strauss: Tod und Verklarung / Metamorphosen
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Karajan: Richard Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie / Also Sprach Zarathustra
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Inside Karajan
Movie · as Self
Beethoven · Missa Solemnis (Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan)
Movie · as Self - Conductor
Karajan: Beauty As I See It
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Herbert von Karajan: Maestro for the Screen
Movie · as Self (archival footage)
Karajan: Richard Strauss: Don Quixote / Ein Heldenleben
Movie · as Self - Conductor
Karajan In Concert
Movie · as Self - Conductor
Karajan - Bruckner - Symphonies Nos. 8 & 9
Movie · as Self
Karajan Tchaikovsky Symphonies 4, 5 & 6
Movie · as Self - Conductor
Rostropovich Life & Art
Movie · as Self - Conductor
Karajan: Beethoven - Symphonies 7, 8 & 9
Movie · as Self - Conductor
Karajan · Die Symphonien
Movie · as Self - Conductor
Karajan: Beethoven - Symphonies 4, 5 & 6
Movie · as Self - Conductor
Karajan: Beethoven - Symphonies 1, 2 & 3
Movie · as Self - Conductor
Karajan: Opening Concert - Berlin 750 Years
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Herbert Von Karajan: Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5
Movie · as Self - Conductor
Herbert von Karajan: Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6
Movie · as Self - Conductor
Herbert Von Karajan: Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4
Movie · as Self - Conductor
Karajan: 1988 New Year's Concert - Prokofiev & Tchaikovsky
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Herbert Von Karajan: Dvorák - Symphony No. 9
Movie · as Self - Conductor
Maestro, Maestro! Herbert von Karajan
Movie · as Self
The Art of Conducting: Great Conductors of the Past
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Karajan conducts Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (Orch. Ravel)
Movie · as Herbert von Karajan
Vivaldi - The Four Seasons / Von Karajan, Mutter, Berlin Philharmonic
Movie · as Self - Conductor
Neujahrskonzert der Wiener Philharmoniker 1987
Movie · as Self - Conductor
Don Giovanni
Movie · as Self - Conductor
Herbert Von Karajan - New Year's Concert Vienna 1987
Movie · as Self - Conductor
Brahms Symphony No. 1 - Berliner Philharmoniker & Herbert von Karajan
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Herbert von Karajan conducts Beethoven's Symphony No. 9
Movie · as Self
Karajan: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Requiem
Movie
Herbert von Karajan: Verdi: Don Carlo
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Don Carlo
Movie · as Self - Conductor
Karajan: Mozart - Coronation Mass
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Dvorak: Symphony No. 9: From the New World
Movie · as Self - Conductor
Karajan: Brahms: German Requiem
Movie · as Conductor
Karajan: Antonin Dvorak: Symphony No. 8
Movie · as Self
Herbert Von Karajan - Berliner Philarmoniker - Debussy: La Mer, Prélude A L'après-midi D'un Faune - Ravel: Daphnis Et Chloé Suite No. 2
Movie · as Conductor
Karajan: Strauss: Death and Transfiguration & Metamorphosen
Movie · as dirigent
Der Rosenkavalier
Movie · as Self - Conductor
Karajan: Beethoven: Violin Concerto
Movie
Herbert von Karajan: Verdi: Requiem
Movie · as Self - Conductor
Karajan: Beethoven: Symphony 1 & 8
Movie · as Self
Beethoven: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 61
Movie · as Self - Conductor
Karajan: Bach: Violin Concerto No. 2: New Year's Eve Concert 1984
Movie · as Self - Conductor
Bach: Magnificat - Karajan
Movie · as Self - Conductor
Herbert von Karajan: Live in Osaka
Movie · as Self - Conductor
Brahms: The Symphonies
Movie · as Self - Conductor
Karajan conducts Ravel and Debussy
Movie · as Self
Zeugen des Jahrhunderts
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Karajan: New Year's Eve Concert
Movie
Wagner: Das Rheingold
Movie · as Self - Conductor
Karajan Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem
Movie · as Self - Conductor
Il Trovatore - Verdi
Movie · as Self - Conductor
Impressions of Herbert von Karajan
Movie · as Self
Biographies
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The South Bank Show
TV · 1 ep
Beethoven Symphony No. 9
Movie · as Self - Conductor
The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 1977
Movie · as Self - Conductor
Puccini's Madama Butterfly
Movie · as Self - Conductor
Otello
Movie · as Conductor
Karajan dirigiert Beethovens fünfte Symphonie
Movie · as Self - Conductor
Eroica
Movie · as Conductor
Le Grand Échiquier
TV · as Self - Main Guest · 1 ep
Beethoven - Symphony No. 5
Movie · as Self
Beethoven - Symphony No. 7
Movie · as Self - Conductor
Beethoven - Symphony No. 8
Movie · as Self - Conductor
Von Reinhardt bis Karajan - 50 Jahre Salzburger Festspiele
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Cavalleria rusticana / Pagliacci
Movie · as Self - Conductor
Pastorale
Movie · as Self - Conductor
Verdi – Messa da Requiem
Movie · as Self - Conductor
Herbert von Karajan, Symphonie n°5 Beethoven
Movie · as Self - Conductor
Tchaikovsky: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in B-Flat, Op. 23 (Karajan, Weissenberg, 1967)
Movie · as self
Clouzot filme Karajan : la Symphonie du Nouveau Monde de Dvořák
Movie · as Chef d'Orchestre
Yehudi Menuhin und Herbert von Karajan – Mozart: Konzert für Violine und Orchester Nr. 5
Movie · as Self - Conductor
Karajan: Mozart Violin Concerto No 5, Dvorak Symphony No.9
Movie · as Self - Conductor
Menuhin and Karajan - The Concert Great Moments in Music
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La Bohème - Teatro alla Scala
Movie · as Self - Conductor
Karajan in Rehearsal
Movie · as Self - Conductor
aspekte
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Der Sport-Spiegel
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Der Rosenkavalier
Movie · as Self - Conductor
Zeichen der Zeit
TV · as Self · 1 ep