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.
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. ...
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Filmography (Movies)
Grace Bumbry is Carmen
Character:Conductor
Release Date:09/06/2024
Karajan: Portrait of a Maestro
Character:Self - Music Conductor (archive footage)
Release Date:22/09/2019
Rostropovich: L'archet Indomptable
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:08/09/2019
The Clouzot Scandal
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:17/10/2017
Karajan - Der Maestro und sein Festival
Character:Self (archive)
Release Date:08/04/2017
Verdi: Falstaff
Character:Self - Conductor
Release Date:11/09/2015
Herbert von Karajan – The Second Life
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:25/12/2012
Karajan dirigiert Beethovens Siebente (Directors Cut)
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:15/06/2010
Eroica - Director's Cut
Character:Self - Conductor
Release Date:15/06/2009
Inside Karajan
Character:Self
Release Date:01/06/2008
Karajan: Beauty As I See It
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:10/05/2008
Karajan - Beethoven: The Symphonies
Character:Self - Conductor
Release Date:05/05/2008
Herbert von Karajan: Maestro for the Screen
Character:Self (archival footage)
Release Date:07/04/2008
Beethoven · Missa Solemnis (Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan)
Character:Self - Conductor
Release Date:28/03/2008
Karajan: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphonies nos. 1-4
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Release Date:17/03/2008
Karajan: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphonies nos. 5-8
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Release Date:17/03/2008
Karajan: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no. 9
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Release Date:17/03/2008
Karajan: Richard Strauss: Tod und Verklarung / Metamorphosen
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Release Date:17/03/2008
Karajan: Richard Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie / Also Sprach Zarathustra
Character:
Release Date:14/03/2008
Karajan: Richard Strauss: Don Quixote / Ein Heldenleben
Character:Self - Conductor
Release Date:14/03/2008
Karajan In Concert
Character:Self - Conductor
Release Date:20/02/2008
Karajan Tchaikovsky Symphonies 4, 5 & 6
Character:Self - Conductor
Release Date:09/05/2007
Rostropovich Life & Art
Character:Self - Conductor
Release Date:05/02/2007
Karajan - Bruckner - Symphonies Nos. 8 & 9
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/2007
Karajan: Beethoven - Symphonies 4, 5 & 6
Character:Self - Conductor
Release Date:06/12/2005
Karajan: Beethoven - Symphonies 1, 2 & 3
Character:Self - Conductor
Release Date:06/12/2005
Karajan · Die Symphonien
Character:Self - Conductor
Release Date:31/10/2005
Karajan: Beethoven - Symphonies 7, 8 & 9
Character:Self - Conductor
Release Date:24/10/2005
Karajan: Opening Concert - Berlin 750 Years
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Release Date:01/11/2003
Herbert Von Karajan: Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5
Character:Self - Conductor
Release Date:01/01/2003
Herbert von Karajan: Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6
Character:Self - Conductor
Release Date:01/01/2001
Herbert Von Karajan: Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4
Character:Self - Conductor
Release Date:01/01/2000
Karajan: 1988 New Year's Concert - Prokofiev & Tchaikovsky
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Release Date:26/10/1999
Herbert Von Karajan: Dvorák - Symphony No. 9
Character:Self - Conductor
Release Date:01/10/1999
The Art of Conducting: Great Conductors of the Past
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:01/01/1993
Vivaldi - The Four Seasons / Von Karajan, Mutter, Berlin Philharmonic
Character:Self - Conductor
Release Date:16/02/1990
Don Giovanni
Character:Self - Conductor
Release Date:18/07/1987
Neujahrskonzert der Wiener Philharmoniker 1987
Character:Self - Conductor
Release Date:03/01/1987
Herbert Von Karajan - New Year's Concert Vienna 1987
Character:Self - Conductor
Release Date:01/01/1987
Karajan: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Requiem
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Release Date:26/05/1986
Herbert von Karajan conducts Beethoven's Symphony No. 9
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1986
Herbert von Karajan: Verdi: Don Carlo
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1986
Don Carlo
Character:Self - Conductor
Release Date:01/01/1986
Herbert Von Karajan - Berliner Philarmoniker - Debussy: La Mer, Prélude A L'après-midi D'un Faune - Ravel: Daphnis Et Chloé Suite No. 2
Character:Conductor
Release Date:07/12/1985
Karajan: Mozart - Coronation Mass
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Release Date:29/06/1985
Dvorak: Symphony No. 9: From the New World
Character:Self - Conductor
Release Date:01/01/1985
Karajan: Brahms: German Requiem
Character:Conductor
Release Date:01/01/1985
Karajan: Antonin Dvorak: Symphony No. 8
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1985
Karajan: Bach: Violin Concerto No. 2: New Year's Eve Concert 1984
Character:Self - Conductor
Release Date:31/12/1984
Bach: Magnificat - Karajan
Character:Self - Conductor
Release Date:31/12/1984
Herbert von Karajan: Live in Osaka
Character:Self - Conductor
Release Date:18/10/1984
Der Rosenkavalier
Character:Self - Conductor
Release Date:02/08/1984
Karajan: Strauss: Death and Transfiguration & Metamorphosen
Character:dirigent
Release Date:01/01/1984
Karajan: Beethoven: Violin Concerto
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1984
Herbert von Karajan: Verdi: Requiem
Character:Self - Conductor
Release Date:01/01/1984
Karajan: Beethoven: Symphony 1 & 8
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1984
Beethoven: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 61
Character:Self - Conductor
Release Date:01/01/1984
Brahms: The Symphonies
Character:Self - Conductor
Release Date:05/02/1980
Karajan conducts Ravel and Debussy
Character:Self
Release Date:15/02/1979
Karajan: New Year's Eve Concert
Character:
Release Date:31/12/1978
Wagner: Das Rheingold
Character:Self - Conductor
Release Date:31/05/1978
Impressions of Herbert Von Karajan
Character:Self
Release Date:30/03/1978
Karajan Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem
Character:Self - Conductor
Release Date:01/01/1978
Il Trovatore - Verdi
Character:Self - Conductor
Release Date:01/01/1978
Beethoven Symphony No. 9
Character:Self - Conductor
Release Date:31/12/1977
The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 1977
Character:Self - Conductor
Release Date:31/12/1977
Madama Butterfly
Character:Self - Conductor
Release Date:14/09/1974
Karajan dirigiert Beethovens fünfte Symphonie
Character:Self - Conductor
Release Date:14/06/1973
Otello
Character:Conductor
Release Date:21/05/1973
Eroica
Character:Conductor
Release Date:14/06/1972
Beethoven - Symphony No. 5
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1971
Beethoven - Symphony No. 7
Character:Self - Conductor
Release Date:01/01/1971
Beethoven - Symphony No. 8
Character:Self - Conductor
Release Date:01/01/1971
Von Reinhardt bis Karajan - 50 Jahre Salzburger Festspiele
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:16/08/1970
Cavalleria rusticana / Pagliacci
Character:Self - Conductor
Release Date:25/07/1970
Verdi – Messa da Requiem
Character:Self - Conductor
Release Date:26/11/1967
Pastorale
Character:Self - Conductor
Release Date:14/06/1967
Tchaikovsky: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in B-Flat, Op. 23 (Karajan, Weissenberg, 1967)
Character:self
Release Date:10/04/1967
Herbert von Karajan, Symphonie n°5 Beethoven
Character:Self - Conductor
Release Date:09/01/1967
Yehudi Menuhin und Herbert von Karajan – Mozart: Konzert für Violine und Orchester Nr. 5
Character:Self - Conductor
Release Date:01/01/1966
Karajan: Mozart Violin Concerto No 5, Dvorak Symphony No.9
Character:Self - Conductor
Release Date:01/01/1966
Karajan in Rehearsal
Character:Self - Conductor
Release Date:04/03/1965
La Bohème
Character:Self - Conductor
Release Date:16/01/1965
Der Rosenkavalier
Character:Self - Conductor
Release Date:09/10/1962
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