Karajan

American  

[kar-uh-yuhn, kah-rah-yahn] / ˈkær ə yən, ˈkɑ rɑˌyɑn /

noun

1. Herbert von 1908–1989, Austrian conductor.

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Karajan British  

/ ˈkaːrajan /

noun

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

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Example Sentences

Few might expect that Herbert von Karajan, that veritable Austro-German autocrat who died 36 years ago, would have anything new to convey at this point—and with the Berlin Philharmonic, no less, an orchestra he commanded for nearly 35 years.

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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.

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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?

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There are also three accounts of the composer’s Ninth Symphony, along with Karajan and Glenn Gould’s only pairing on record, a 1957 performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 that emerges less interesting than one might hope.

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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.

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