Herbert von Karajan



Herbert von Karajan, born Heribert Ritter von Karajan (Salzburg, 5 April 1908 – Anif, 16 July 1989), was an Austrian conductor. He is generally considered one of the greatest conductors of all time (according to a survey of one hundred famous conductors published by "Classic Voice" magazine in December 2011, third after Carlos Kleiber and Leonard Bernstein). He is remembered as the conductor with the greatest number of recordings, in particular with the Berliner Philharmoniker, which he led for thirty-five years, leaving them in 1989. His membership of the Nazi party led to his forced removal from the music scene at the end of the second world War; he later became principal conductor of the Philharmonia Orchestra of London from 1949 to 1960 and, in 1954, he became director of the Berliner Philharmoniker, a role he held for life and in any case until his formal resignation, for personal reasons, on 29 March 1989. From 1959 in 1964 he held the role of artistic director at the Vienna Opera; he was the main guest of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan (sole director of the German Opera season) until 1964, guest of the RAI Orchestra of Rome for some sporadic performances (including Débussy's Pelléas et Mélisande in concert form, The Magic Flute in concert form, the oratorio A Child of our Time by Michael Tippett and others); from 1969 to 1971 he became the principal conductor of the Orchester de Paris. In 1967 he founded the Salzburg Easter Festival. Extreme perfectionism, capacity for research and experimentation will make Karajan an interpreter who is always at the forefront of both the classical and contemporary repertoire.



Small but expressive black and white photographic portrait of the well-known conductor with his autograph signature, 100 x 150 mm.



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