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Karajan

American  
[kar-uh-yuhn, kah-rah-yahn] / ˈkær ə jən, ˈkɑ rɑˌjɑn /

noun

  1. Herbert von 1908–1989, Austrian conductor.


Karajan British  
/ ˈkaːrajan /

noun

  1. Herbert von (ˈhɛrbɛrt fɔn). 1908–89, Austrian conductor

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Yet here, on the Berliners’ own label, is a deluxe set of 24 discs, complete with lavish hardbound book, featuring Karajan and the orchestra in radio broadcasts from 1953 through 1969.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025

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

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

After graduating, though, he moved to Vienna, where he turned toward music, soaking up the fertile opera scene of the early 1970s and singing a few times in choruses conducted by Herbert von Karajan.

From New York Times ● May 21, 2024

Karajan, for permitting an engraving to be made expressly for this work, from an original Beethoven portrait in his possession, now for the first time given to the public.

From Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826, Volume 1 by Ludwig Ritter von Köchel

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