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Herbert von Karajan (Salzburg April 5, 1908 Anif near Salzburg – July 16, 1989) was an Austrian conductor. He was one of the most prominent conductors of the postwar period and is widely regarded as the world's most recorded conductor. Karajan conducted the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra for thirty-five years.
In March of 1935, Karajan's career was given a significant boost when he applied for membership in the Nazi Party. ('Aufnahmegruppe der 1933er, nachgereichte') That same year, Karajan was appointed Germany's youngest "Generalmusikdirektor" and was a guest conductor in Brussels, Stockholm, Amsterdam, and other European cities. Moreover, in 1937, Karajan made his debut with the Berlin Philharmonic and the Berlin State Opera with Fidelio. He enjoyed a major success with Tristan und Isolde and in 1938, was hailed by a Berlin critic as "Das Wunder Karajan" ("The Karajan miracle"). Receiving a contract with Deutsche Grammophon that same year, Karajan made the first of numerous recordings by conducting the Staatskapelle Berlin in the overture to Die Zauberflöte. However Adolf Hitler had only scorn for the famed conductor after he fumbled at one point in a gala performance of "Die Meistersinger" for the King and Queen of Yugoslavia in June 1939. Conducting without a score, Karajan lost his way, the singers halted, the curtain was rung down in confusion. Furious, Hitler directed Winifred Wagner : "Herr von Karajan will never conduct at Bayreuth in my lifetime", and he did not. After the war, Karajan did his best to prevent the evocation of this shameful and not too glorious incident that perhaps saved his post-war career.
Karajan played an important role in the development of the original compact disc digital audio format (circa 1980). He championed this new consumer playback technology, lent his prestige to it, and appeared at the first press conference announcing the format. Early CD prototypes had exhibited a playing time limited to a mere sixty minutes. It is often asserted that the decision to extend the maximum playing time of the compact disc to its standard of seventy-four minutes was achieved in order to adequately encompass Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, the existing library of Karajan's recordings, and his expressed wishes.
Karajan's DG recording of Johann Strauss' An der schönen, blauen Donau (The Blue Danube waltz) was used by director Stanley Kubrick for a sequence in the science-fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey (with Kubrick animating the sequence to match the prerecorded music—the opposite of the usual practice for soundtracks)
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Herbert Von Karajan - Jubilee Concert 100 Years: 1882-1982 (DVD) US$ 11.86 Conductor Herbert Von Karajan became one of the most legendary figures in 20th-century classical music for the technical precisi |
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The Very Best of Herbert von Karajan US$ 14.84 Disc 1:
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Herbert Von Karajan: Early Recordings US$ 17.75 Description not available. |
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Inspiration - Best Of Herbert Von Karajan US$ 6.63 |
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Herbert Von Karajan - All Souls Day Concert 1984 (DVD) US$ 11.86 This evocative concert conjures up the work of Herbert Von Karajan in a highly intimate setting. Filmed just five years before his untimely demise, the concert can be seen as a great tribute to the former music director of the Berlin Philharmonic Orche... |
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Opera Intermezzi / Herbert von Karajan, Berlin PO US$ 11.75 Disc 1:
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Mozart: Cosi Fan Tutte by Karajan,Herbert Von US$ 25.16 Description Not Available |
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Herbert Von Karajan in Rehearsal and Performance (DVD) US$ 19.79 Description not available. |
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Humperdinck: Hansel Und Gretel by Karajan,Herbert Von US$ 20.12 Description Not Available |
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Wagner: Orchestral Music / Herbert von Karajan, Berlin PO US$ 10.20 Description Not Available |
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Karajan, Herbert Von/Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra - Verdi: Over US$ 12.53 |
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Herbert von Karajan & Berliner Philharmoniker: Tokyo 1957 (DVD) US$ 35.98 Description not available. |
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Beethoven - Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 "Choral" (DVD) US$ 24.74 Herbert von Karajan conducts the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in this 1977 performance of Beethoven`s Symphony No. 9, the "Choral." |
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Verdi - Un Ballo in Maschera (DVD) US$ 26.77 The Salzburg Festival played host to an awesome reworking of Verdi`s UN BALLO IN MASCHERA ("The Masked Ball") during 1989 and 1990. Herbert Von Karajan had meticulously prepared the opera for public consumption, but after he sadly passed away in `89, S... |
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Various Artists - Underground 2008: Celebrating a Clubbing Phenomenon US$ 21.22 Disc 1:
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Herbert Von Karajan - Dvorak 9 Symphony III Movement (Wartime Recording)
