Karajan
Americannoun
noun
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Karajan probably never conducted a bad performance of Beethoven’s “Eroica” Symphony, but did he ever lead a more hell-for-leather reading than this one?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025
Other gifts include Bruckner’s Fourth and Eighth Symphonies, Schubert’s “Great” C major, Dvořák’s “New World” and Sibelius’s Fifth—a work in which Karajan remains sovereign.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025
He was awarded the Herbert von Karajan music price for lifetime achievement in December 2008 in Baden-Baden, southern Germany.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2025
He studied with Herbert von Karajan in Berlin and drew the interest of Leonard Bernstein, who appointed him an assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic in 1961.
From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2024
It was Karajan who discovered and published this pleasant correspondence with her.
From The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 1 by Rupert Hughes
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