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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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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

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

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

He wrote, according to Karajan, the eighth of his little books about 1298.

From Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I. by Freytag, Gustav

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