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 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 …

Movies & TV Shows

1. The Clouzot Scandal (2017) — Self (archive footage)
2. Il Trovatore - Verdi (1978) — Self - Conductor
3. La Bohème (1965) — Self - Conductor
4. Pastorale (1967) — Self - Conductor
5. Don Giovanni (1987) — Self - Conductor
6. Le Grand Échiquier (1972) — Self - Main Guest
7. Der Rosenkavalier (1962) — Self - Conductor
8. Verdi – Messa da Requiem (1967) — Self - Conductor
9. Karajan: Beethoven - Symphonies 7, 8 & 9 (2005) — Self - Conductor
10. Puccini's Madama Butterfly (1974) — Self - Conductor
11. The Art of Conducting: Great Conductors of the Past (1993) — Self (archive footage)
12. Cavalleria rusticana / Pagliacci (1970) — Self - Conductor
13. aspekte (1965) — Self
14. Beethoven - Symphony No. 7 (1971) — Self - Conductor
15. Der Rosenkavalier (1984) — Self - Conductor
16. Karajan - Bruckner - Symphonies Nos. 8 & 9 (2007) — Self
17. Karajan: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Requiem (1986)
18. Otello (1973) — Conductor
19. Karajan: New Year's Eve Concert (1978)
20. Dvorak: Symphony No. 9: From the New World (1985) — Self - Conductor
21. Wagner: Das Rheingold (1978) — Self - Conductor
22. Beethoven · Missa Solemnis (Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan) (2008) — Self - Conductor
23. Herbert von Karajan: Verdi: Requiem (1984) — Self - Conductor
24. Eroica (1972) — Conductor
25. Yehudi Menuhin und Herbert von Karajan – Mozart: Konzert für Violine und Orchester Nr. 5 (1966) — Self - Conductor
26. Karajan: Portrait of a Maestro (2019) — Self - Music Conductor (archive footage)
27. Rostropovich: L'archet Indomptable (2019) — Self (archive footage)
28. Rostropovich Life & Art (2007) — Self - Conductor
29. Brahms: The Symphonies (1980) — Self - Conductor
30. Herbert Von Karajan - New Year's Concert Vienna 1987 (1987) — Self - Conductor
31. Biographies (1978) — Self
32. Der Sport-Spiegel (1963) — Self
33. Karajan - Der Maestro und sein Festival (2017) — Self (archive)
34. Karajan: Strauss: Death and Transfiguration & Metamorphosen (1984) — dirigent
35. Beethoven - Symphony No. 5 (1971) — Self
36. Beethoven - Symphony No. 8 (1971) — Self - Conductor
37. Beethoven Symphony No. 9 (1977) — Self - Conductor
38. Karajan conducts Ravel and Debussy (1979) — Self
39. Neujahrskonzert der Wiener Philharmoniker 1987 (1987) — Self - Conductor
40. Herbert von Karajan conducts Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (1986) — Self

Directed

1. Bizet Carmen (1967) — Director
2. Wagner: Die Walküre (2017) — Director
3. Cavalleria rusticana / Pagliacci (1970) — Director
4. Der Rosenkavalier (1984) — Director
5. Karajan: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Requiem (1986) — Director
6. Karajan: New Year's Eve Concert (1978) — Director
7. Wagner: Das Rheingold (1978) — Director
8. Beethoven · Missa Solemnis (Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan) (2008) — Director
9. Brahms: The Symphonies (1980) — Director
10. Karajan: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphonies nos. 5-8 (2008) — Director
11. Karajan: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no. 9 (2008) — Director
12. Karajan: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphonies nos. 1-4 (2008) — Director
13. Karajan: Richard Strauss: Tod und Verklarung / Metamorphosen (2008) — Director
14. Karajan: Richard Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie / Also Sprach Zarathustra (2008) — Director
15. Herbert von Karajan: Verdi: Don Carlo (1986) — Director
16. Karajan: Strauss: Death and Transfiguration & Metamorphosen (1984) — Director
17. Karajan dirigiert Beethovens fünfte Symphonie (1973) — Director
18. Don Carlo (1986) — Director
19. Karajan Tchaikovsky Symphonies 4, 5 & 6 (2007) — Director
20. Karajan In Concert (2008) — Director
21. Karajan Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem (1978) — Director
22. Karajan: Mozart - Coronation Mass (1985) — Director
23. Karajan conducts Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (Orch. Ravel) (1992) — Director