Herbert von Karajan
Biography
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...
Known For
Top 40 Movies
The Clouzot Scandal
2017
Rostropovich: L'archet Indomptable
2019
La Bohème
1965
Don Carlo
1986
Vivaldi - The Four Seasons / Von Karajan, Mutter, Berlin Philharmonic
1990
Der Rosenkavalier
1962
Der Rosenkavalier
1984
Karajan: Beauty As I See It
2008
Il Trovatore - Verdi
1978
Karajan: New Year's Eve Concert
1978
Karajan - Beethoven: The Symphonies
2008
Beethoven Symphony No. 9
1977
Herbert von Karajan: Maestro for the Screen
2008
Herbert von Karajan: Verdi: Requiem
1984
Von Reinhardt bis Karajan - 50 Jahre Salzburger Festspiele
1970
Eroica
1972
Grace Bumbry is Carmen
2024
Karajan Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem
1978
Verdi: Falstaff
2015
Verdi – Messa da Requiem
1967
Eroica - Director's Cut
2009
Karajan: Strauss: Death and Transfiguration & Metamorphosen
1984
Karajan: 1988 New Year's Concert - Prokofiev & Tchaikovsky
1999
Madama Butterfly
1974
Karajan: Portrait of a Maestro
2019
Otello
1973
Karajan: Beethoven - Symphonies 1, 2 & 3
2005
Karajan: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Requiem
1986
The Art of Conducting: Great Conductors of the Past
1993
Cavalleria rusticana / Pagliacci
1970
Impressions of Herbert von Karajan
1978
Rostropovich Life & Art
2007
Karajan: Richard Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie / Also Sprach Zarathustra
2008
Beethoven - Symphony No. 7
1971
Wagner: Das Rheingold
1978
Karajan: Mozart Violin Concerto No 5, Dvorak Symphony No.9
1966