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. ...
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Fotos
Películas (94)
Grace Bumbry is Carmen
2024 · Conductor, Music Director
Please Call Me Claudio: The Visionary Claudio Abbado
2024 · Self (archive footage)
Ludwig Van Beethoven: 9 Symphonies
2023 · Conductor
Karajan: Portrait of a Maestro
2019 · Self - Music Conductor (archive footage)
Rostropovich: L'archet Indomptable
2019 · Self (archive footage)
Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana & Leoncavallo: Pagliacci
2018 · Conductor
The Clouzot Scandal
2017 · Self (archive footage)
Karajan - Der Maestro und sein Festival
2017 · Self (archive)
Wagner: Die Walküre
2017 · Director
Herbert Von Karajan: Dvorak - Symphonies Nos. 8 & 9
2015 · Self, Conductor
Verdi: Falstaff
2015 · Self - Conductor
Herbert von Karajan – The Second Life
2012 · Self (archive footage)
Karajan dirigiert Beethovens Siebente (Directors Cut)
2010 · Self (archive footage)
Inside Karajan
2008 · Self
Karajan: Beauty As I See It
2008 · Self (archive footage)
Karajan - Beethoven: The Symphonies
2008 · Self - Conductor, Music
Herbert von Karajan: Maestro for the Screen
2008 · Self (archival footage)
Beethoven · Missa Solemnis (Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan)
2008 · Self - Conductor, Director
Karajan: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphonies nos. 1-4
2008 · Director
Karajan: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no. 9
2008 · Director
Karajan: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphonies nos. 5-8
2008 · Director
Karajan: Richard Strauss: Tod und Verklarung / Metamorphosen
2008 · Director
Karajan: Richard Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie / Also Sprach Zarathustra
2008 · Director
Karajan: Richard Strauss: Don Quixote / Ein Heldenleben
2008 · Self - Conductor
Karajan In Concert
2008 · Self - Conductor, Director
Karajan Tchaikovsky Symphonies 4, 5 & 6
2007 · Self - Conductor, Director
Rostropovich Life & Art
2007 · Self - Conductor
Karajan - Bruckner - Symphonies Nos. 8 & 9
2007 · Self
Karajan: Beethoven - Symphonies 4, 5 & 6
2005 · Self - Conductor
Karajan: Beethoven - Symphonies 1, 2 & 3
2005 · Self - Conductor
Karajan · Die Symphonien
2005 · Self - Conductor
Karajan: Beethoven - Symphonies 7, 8 & 9
2005 · Self - Conductor
Karajan: Opening Concert - Berlin 750 Years
2003
Herbert Von Karajan: Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5
2003 · Self - Conductor
Herbert von Karajan: Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6
2001 · Self - Conductor
Herbert Von Karajan: Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4
2000 · Self - Conductor
Karajan: 1988 New Year's Concert - Prokofiev & Tchaikovsky
1999
Herbert Von Karajan: Dvorák - Symphony No. 9
1999 · Self - Conductor
Maestro, Maestro! Herbert von Karajan
1999 · Self
The Art of Conducting: Great Conductors of the Past
1993 · Self (archive footage)
Karajan conducts Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (Orch. Ravel)
1992 · Herbert von Karajan, Director
Vivaldi - The Four Seasons / Von Karajan, Mutter, Berlin Philharmonic
1990 · Self - Conductor
Don Giovanni
1987 · Self - Conductor, Music Director
Brahms Symphony No. 1 - Berliner Philharmoniker & Herbert von Karajan
1987
Neujahrskonzert der Wiener Philharmoniker 1987
1987 · Self - Conductor
Herbert Von Karajan - New Year's Concert Vienna 1987
1987 · Self - Conductor
Karajan: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Requiem
1986 · Conductor, Director
Herbert von Karajan conducts Beethoven's Symphony No. 9
1986 · Self
Herbert von Karajan: Verdi: Don Carlo
1986 · Director
Don Carlo
1986 · Self - Conductor, Director
Herbert Von Karajan - Berliner Philarmoniker - Debussy: La Mer, Prélude A L'après-midi D'un Faune - Ravel: Daphnis Et Chloé Suite No. 2
1985 · Conductor
Karajan: Mozart - Coronation Mass
1985 · Director
Dvorak: Symphony No. 9: From the New World
1985 · Self - Conductor
Karajan: Brahms: German Requiem
1985 · Conductor
Karajan: Antonin Dvorak: Symphony No. 8
1985 · Self
Karajan: Bach: Violin Concerto No. 2: New Year's Eve Concert 1984
1984 · Self - Conductor
Bach: Magnificat - Karajan
1984 · Self - Conductor
Herbert von Karajan: Live in Osaka
1984 · Self - Conductor
Der Rosenkavalier
1984 · Self - Conductor, Director
Karajan: Strauss: Death and Transfiguration & Metamorphosen
1984 · dirigent, Director
Karajan: Beethoven: Violin Concerto
1984
Herbert von Karajan: Verdi: Requiem
1984 · Self - Conductor
Karajan: Beethoven: Symphony 1 & 8
1984 · Self
Beethoven: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 61
1984 · Self - Conductor
Brahms: The Symphonies
1980 · Self - Conductor, Director
Karajan conducts Ravel and Debussy
1979 · Self
Karajan: New Year's Eve Concert
1978 · Director
Wagner: Das Rheingold
1978 · Self - Conductor, Director
Impressions of Herbert von Karajan
1978 · Self
Karajan Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem
1978 · Self - Conductor, Director
Il Trovatore - Verdi
1978 · Self - Conductor, Music
Beethoven Symphony No. 9
1977 · Self - Conductor
The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 1977
1977 · Self - Conductor, Conductor
Puccini's Madama Butterfly
1974 · Self - Conductor
Karajan dirigiert Beethovens fünfte Symphonie
1973 · Self - Conductor, Director
Otello
1973 · Conductor
Eroica
1972 · Conductor
Beethoven - Symphony No. 5
1971 · Self
Beethoven - Symphony No. 8
1971 · Self - Conductor
Beethoven - Symphony No. 7
1971 · Self - Conductor
Von Reinhardt bis Karajan - 50 Jahre Salzburger Festspiele
1970 · Self (archive footage)
Cavalleria rusticana / Pagliacci
1970 · Self - Conductor, Conductor, Director
Verdi – Messa da Requiem
1967 · Self - Conductor
Pastorale
1967 · Self - Conductor, Music
Tchaikovsky: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in B-Flat, Op. 23 (Karajan, Weissenberg, 1967)
1967 · self
Herbert von Karajan, Symphonie n°5 Beethoven
1967 · Self - Conductor
Bizet Carmen
1967 · Director, Conductor, Stage Director
Clouzot filme Karajan : la Symphonie du Nouveau Monde de Dvořák
1966 · Chef d'Orchestre
Yehudi Menuhin und Herbert von Karajan – Mozart: Konzert für Violine und Orchester Nr. 5
1966 · Self - Conductor
Karajan: Mozart Violin Concerto No 5, Dvorak Symphony No.9
1966 · Self - Conductor
Menuhin and Karajan - The Concert Great Moments in Music
1966 · Conductor
Karajan in Rehearsal
1965 · Self - Conductor
La Bohème - Teatro alla Scala
1965 · Self - Conductor, Producer, Conductor
Der Rosenkavalier
1962 · Self - Conductor
