Cast
Herbert von Karajan
Acting
Cast
Herbert von Karajan
Known for
Acting
Born
1908-04-05
From
Salzburg, Austria
Died
1989-07-16
Biography
Herbert von Karajan (born Heribert Ritter[a] von Karajan; 5 April 1908 â 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 (GeĂłrgios KarajĂĄnnis, Greek: ÎΔÏÏÎłÎčÎżÏ ÎαÏαγÎčÎŹÎœÎœÎ·Ï), 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 KarajĂĄnnis 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 (1868â1951) and Marta (nĂ©e Martha KosmaÄ; 1881â1954) (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.
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MOVIE1965
La BohĂšme
as Self - Conductor
MOVIE2008
Inside Karajan
as Self
MOVIE1986
Don Carlo
as Self - Conductor
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MOVIE1984
Der Rosenkavalier
as Self - Conductor
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MOVIE1978
Il Trovatore - Verdi
as Self - Conductor
MOVIE2008
Karajan: Richard Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie / Also Sprach Zarathustra
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MOVIE1967
Pastorale
as Self - Conductor
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MOVIE1962
Der Rosenkavalier
as Self - Conductor
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MOVIE2017
The Clouzot Scandal
as Self (archive footage)
MOVIE2008
Karajan - Beethoven: The Symphonies
as Self - Conductor
MOVIE1965
Karajan in Rehearsal
as Self - Conductor
MOVIE2005
Karajan: Beethoven - Symphonies 4, 5 & 6
as Self - Conductor
MOVIE1978
Karajan Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem
as Self - Conductor
MOVIE1971
Beethoven - Symphony No. 8
as Self - Conductor
MOVIE2008
Karajan: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no. 9
MOVIE2023
Ludwig Van Beethoven: 9 Symphonies
as Conductor
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MOVIE1974
Puccini's Madama Butterfly
as Self - Conductor
MOVIE1992
Karajan conducts Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (Orch. Ravel)
as Herbert von Karajan
MOVIE1973
Karajan dirigiert Beethovens fĂŒnfte Symphonie
as Self - Conductor
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MOVIE2007
Rostropovich Life & Art
as Self - Conductor
MOVIE1984
Herbert von Karajan: Live in Osaka
as Self - Conductor
MOVIE1986
Herbert von Karajan: Verdi: Don Carlo
MOVIE2005
Karajan: Beethoven - Symphonies 1, 2 & 3
as Self - Conductor
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MOVIE1978
Karajan: New Year's Eve Concert
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MOVIE2005
Karajan: Beethoven - Symphonies 7, 8 & 9
as Self - Conductor
MOVIE1966
Menuhin and Karajan - The Concert Great Moments in Music
MOVIE2008
Karajan In Concert
as Self - Conductor
MOVIE2008
Karajan: Richard Strauss: Tod und Verklarung / Metamorphosen
MOVIE1990
Vivaldi - The Four Seasons / Von Karajan, Mutter, Berlin Philharmonic
as Self - Conductor
MOVIE1999
Herbert Von Karajan: DvorĂĄk - Symphony No. 9
as Self - Conductor
MOVIE1984
Karajan: Beethoven: Symphony 1 & 8
as Self
MOVIE1978
Impressions of Herbert von Karajan
as Self
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MOVIE1980
Brahms: The Symphonies
as Self - Conductor
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MOVIE1984
Herbert von Karajan: Verdi: Requiem
as Self - Conductor
MOVIE1985
Karajan: Mozart - Coronation Mass
MOVIE2001
Herbert von Karajan: Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6
as Self - Conductor
MOVIE2003
Karajan: Opening Concert - Berlin 750 Years
MOVIE1999
Maestro, Maestro! Herbert von Karajan
as Self
MOVIE1984
Bach: Magnificat - Karajan
as Self - Conductor
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MOVIE1970
Cavalleria rusticana / Pagliacci
as Self - Conductor
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MOVIE1985
Dvorak: Symphony No. 9: From the New World
as Self - Conductor
MOVIE2018
Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana & Leoncavallo: Pagliacci
as Conductor
MOVIE1984
Karajan: Strauss: Death and Transfiguration & Metamorphosen
as dirigent
MOVIE2000
Herbert Von Karajan: Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4
as Self - Conductor
MOVIE1985
Karajan: Antonin Dvorak: Symphony No. 8
as Self
MOVIE1985
Karajan: Brahms: German Requiem
as Conductor
MOVIE1999
Karajan: 1988 New Year's Concert - Prokofiev & Tchaikovsky
MOVIE2005
Karajan · Die Symphonien
as Self - Conductor
MOVIE1979
Karajan conducts Ravel and Debussy
as Self
MOVIE2012
Herbert von Karajan â The Second Life
as Self (archive footage)
MOVIE2003
Herbert Von Karajan: Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5
as Self - Conductor
MOVIE1984
Karajan: Beethoven: Violin Concerto
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MOVIE2019
Rostropovich: L'archet Indomptable
as Self (archive footage)
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MOVIE1971
Beethoven - Symphony No. 7
as Self - Conductor
MOVIE2007
Karajan Tchaikovsky Symphonies 4, 5 & 6
as Self - Conductor
MOVIE2008
Karajan: Beauty As I See It
as Self (archive footage)
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MOVIE1973
Otello
as Conductor
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MOVIE1993
The Art of Conducting: Great Conductors of the Past
as Self (archive footage)
MOVIE1984
Beethoven: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 61
as Self - Conductor
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MOVIE1978
Wagner: Das Rheingold
as Self - Conductor
MOVIE2024
Grace Bumbry is Carmen
as Conductor
MOVIETBA
Clouzot filme Karajan : la Symphonie du Nouveau Monde de DvoĆĂĄk
as Chef d'Orchestre
MOVIE2008
Herbert von Karajan: Maestro for the Screen
as Self (archival footage)
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MOVIE1987
Don Giovanni
as Self - Conductor
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MOVIE1986
Karajan: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Requiem
MOVIE2008
Karajan: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphonies nos. 1-4
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MOVIE1977
Beethoven Symphony No. 9
as Self - Conductor
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MOVIE1967
Verdi â Messa da Requiem
as Self - Conductor
MOVIE1970
Von Reinhardt bis Karajan - 50 Jahre Salzburger Festspiele
as Self (archive footage)
MOVIE1987
Neujahrskonzert der Wiener Philharmoniker 1987
as Self - Conductor
MOVIE1967
Tchaikovsky: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in B-Flat, Op. 23 (Karajan, Weissenberg, 1967)
as self
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MOVIE1972
Eroica
as Conductor
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MOVIE2008
Beethoven · Missa Solemnis (Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan)
as Self - Conductor
MOVIE1984
Karajan: Bach: Violin Concerto No. 2: New Year's Eve Concert 1984
as Self - Conductor
MOVIE2008
Karajan: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphonies nos. 5-8
MOVIE2017
Karajan - Der Maestro und sein Festival
as Self (archive)
MOVIE1967
Herbert von Karajan, Symphonie n°5 Beethoven
as Self - Conductor
MOVIE2010
Karajan dirigiert Beethovens Siebente (Directors Cut)
as Self (archive footage)
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MOVIE1987
Herbert Von Karajan - New Year's Concert Vienna 1987
as Self - Conductor
MOVIE1985
Herbert Von Karajan - Berliner Philarmoniker - Debussy: La Mer, Prélude A L'aprÚs-midi D'un Faune - Ravel: Daphnis Et Chloé Suite No. 2
as Conductor
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MOVIE2019
Karajan: Portrait of a Maestro
as Self - Music Conductor (archive footage)
MOVIE2008
Karajan: Richard Strauss: Don Quixote / Ein Heldenleben
as Self - Conductor
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MOVIE1966
Yehudi Menuhin und Herbert von Karajan â Mozart: Konzert fĂŒr Violine und Orchester Nr. 5
as Self - Conductor
MOVIE1986
Herbert von Karajan conducts Beethoven's Symphony No. 9
as Self
MOVIE1966
Karajan: Mozart Violin Concerto No 5, Dvorak Symphony No.9
as Self - Conductor
MOVIE1977
The Berliner Philharmonikerâs New Yearâs Eve Concert: 1977
as Self - Conductor
MOVIE1971
Beethoven - Symphony No. 5
as Self
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MOVIE2007
Karajan - Bruckner - Symphonies Nos. 8 & 9
as Self
MOVIE2015
Verdi: Falstaff
as Self - Conductor