Herbert von Karajan

Herbert von Karajan

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: Acting

Born: Salzburg, Austria, 1908-04-05

Died: 1989-07-16

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1962	Der Rosenkavalier	Self - Conductor	80
2	1965	La Bohème	Self - Conductor	80
3	1967	Pastorale	Self - Conductor	62
4	1967	Verdi – Messa da Requiem	Self - Conductor	90
5	1970	Von Reinhardt bis Karajan - 50 Jahre Salzburger Festspiele	Self (archive footage)	0
6	1971	Beethoven - Symphony No. 5	Self	0
7	1971	Beethoven - Symphony No. 7	Self - Conductor	80
8	1971	Beethoven - Symphony No. 8	Self - Conductor	0
9	1973	Otello	Conductor	0
10	1974	Madama Butterfly	Self - Conductor	95
11	1977	Beethoven Symphony No. 9	Self - Conductor	90
12	1978	Wagner: Das Rheingold	Self - Conductor	20
13	1978	Karajan: New Year's Eve Concert		100
14	1979	Karajan conducts Ravel and Debussy	Self	0
15	1984	Karajan: Strauss: Death and Transfiguration & Metamorphosen	dirigent	0
16	1984	Karajan: Beethoven: Violin Concerto		0
17	1984	Der Rosenkavalier	Self - Conductor	0
18	1985	Dvorak: Symphony No. 9: From the New World	Self - Conductor	0
19	1986	Herbert von Karajan conducts Beethoven's Symphony No. 9	Self	0
20	1986	Herbert von Karajan: Verdi: Don Carlo		0
21	1986	Karajan: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Requiem		100
22	1987	Neujahrskonzert der Wiener Philharmoniker 1987	Self - Conductor	0
23	1987	Don Giovanni	Self - Conductor	90
24	1990	Vivaldi - The Four Seasons / Von Karajan, Mutter, Berlin Philharmonic	Self - Conductor	0
25	1993	The Art of Conducting: Great Conductors of the Past	Self (archive footage)	90
26	1999	Karajan: 1988 New Year's Concert - Prokofiev & Tchaikovsky		0
27	2003	Karajan: Opening Concert - Berlin 750 Years		0
28	2005	Karajan: Beethoven - Symphonies 7, 8 & 9	Self - Conductor	100
29	2005	Karajan · Die Symphonien	Self - Conductor	0
30	2007	Karajan - Bruckner - Symphonies Nos. 8 & 9	Self	100
31	2008	Karajan: Richard Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie / Also Sprach Zarathustra		0
32	2008	Karajan: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphonies nos. 5-8		0
33	2008	Karajan: Richard Strauss: Tod und Verklarung / Metamorphosen		0
34	2008	Karajan - Beethoven: The 9 Symphonies DVD	Self - Conductor	0
35	2017	Karajan - Der Maestro und sein Festival	Self (archive)	0
36		Clouzot filme Karajan : la Symphonie du Nouveau Monde de Dvořák	Chef d'Orchestre	0
37		Karajan: Mozart - Coronation Mass		0
38	1965	Karajan in Rehearsal	Self - Conductor	0
39	1966	Yehudi Menuhin und Herbert von Karajan – Mozart: Konzert für Violine und Orchester Nr. 5	Self - Conductor	70
40	1966	Karajan: Mozart Violin Concerto No 5, Dvorak Symphony No.9	Self - Conductor	0
41	1967	Tchaikovsky, Karajan - Concierto for Piano and Orchestra in B-Flat, Op. 23	self	0
42	1967	Herbert von Karajan, Symphonie n°5 Beethoven	Self - Conductor	0
43	1970	Cavalleria rusticana / Pagliacci	Self - Conductor	85
44	1972	Eroica	Conductor	100
45	1973	Karajan dirigiert Beethovens fünfte Symphonie	Self - Conductor	0
46	1977	The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 1977	Self - Conductor	0
47	1978	Karajan Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem	Self - Conductor	0
48	1978	Il Trovatore - Verdi	Self - Conductor	58
49	1978	Impressions of Herbert Von Karajan	Self	0
50	1980	Brahms: The Symphonies	Self - Conductor	90
51	1984	Herbert von Karajan: Verdi: Requiem	Self - Conductor	0
52	1984	Karajan: Beethoven: Symphony 1 & 8	Self	0
53	1984	Beethoven: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 61	Self - Conductor	0
54	1984	Karajan: Bach: Violin Concerto No. 2: New Year's Eve Concert 1984	Self - Conductor	0
55	1984	Bach: Magnificat - Karajan	Self - Conductor	0
56	1984	Herbert von Karajan: Live in Osaka	Self - Conductor	0
57	1985	Karajan: Brahms: German Requiem	Conductor	0
58	1985	Karajan: Antonin Dvorak: Symphony No. 8	Self	0
59	1986	Don Carlo	Self - Conductor	0
60	1987	Herbert Von Karajan - New Year's Concert Vienna 1987	Self - Conductor	70
61	1999	Herbert Von Karajan: Dvorák - Symphony No. 9	Self - Conductor	0
62	2000	Herbert Von Karajan: Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4	Self - Conductor	0
63	2001	Herbert von Karajan: Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6	Self - Conductor	0
64	2003	Herbert Von Karajan: Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5	Self - Conductor	0
65	2005	Karajan: Beethoven - Symphonies 4, 5 & 6	Self - Conductor	0
66	2005	Karajan: Beethoven - Symphonies 1, 2 & 3	Self - Conductor	0
67	2007	Rostropovich Life & Art	Self - Conductor	70
68	2007	Karajan Tchaikovsky Symphonies 4, 5 & 6	Self - Conductor	0
69	2008	Karajan In Concert	Self - Conductor	0
70	2008	Karajan: Richard Strauss: Don Quixote / Ein Heldenleben	Self - Conductor	0
71	2008	Karajan: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphonies nos. 1-4		0
72	2008	Karajan: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no. 9		0
73	2008	Beethoven · Missa Solemnis (Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan)	Self - Conductor	90
74	2008	Herbert von Karajan: Maestro for the Screen	Self (archival footage)	0
75	2008	Karajan: Beauty As I See It	Self (archive footage)	0
76	2008	Inside Karajan	Self	0
77	2009	Eroica - Director's Cut	Self - Conductor	100
78	2010	Karajan dirigiert Beethovens Siebente (Directors Cut)	Self (archive footage)	0
79	2012	Herbert von Karajan – The Second Life	Self (archive footage)	0
80	2015	Verdi: Falstaff	Self - Conductor	0
81	2017	The Clouzot Scandal	Self (archive footage)	65
82	2019	Rostropovich: L'archet Indomptable	Self (archive footage)	100
83	2019	Karajan: Portrait of a Maestro	Self - Music Conductor (archive footage)	70

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1957	Zeichen der Zeit	Self	0
2	1963	Der Sport-Spiegel	Self	60
3	1965	aspekte	Self	70
4	1972	Le Grand Échiquier	Self - Main Guest	80
5	1972	Le Grand Échiquier	Self	80
6	1978	Biographies	Self	0
7	1979	Zeugen des Jahrhunderts	Self	0

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