Herbert von Karajan
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 "black".
He and his brother participated in the establishment of Saxony's cloth industry, and both were ennobled for their services by Frederick Augustus III on 1 June 1792, thus adding the prefix "von" to the family name. This usage disappeared with the abolition of Austrian nobility after World War I. The surname Karajánnis became Karajan. Although traditional biographers ascribed a Slovak and Serbian or simply a Slavic origin to his mother, Karajan's family from the maternal side, through his grandfather who was born in the village of Mojstrana, Duchy of Carniola (today in Slovenia), was Slovene. Aromanian heritage has also been claimed. Through the Slovene line, Karajan was related to the Slovenian-Austrian composer Hugo Wolf. He also seems to have known some Slovene.
Heribert Ritter von Karajan was born in Salzburg, Austria-Hungary, the second son of senior consultant Ernst von Karajan (1868–1951) and Marta (née Martha Kosmač; 1881–1954) (married 1905). He was a child prodigy at the piano. From 1916 to 1926, he studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg with Franz Ledwinka (piano), Franz Zauer (harmony), and Bernhard Paumgartner (composition and chamber music). He was encouraged to concentrate on conducting by Paumgartner, who detected his exceptional promise in that regard. In 1926 Karajan graduated from the conservatory and continued his studies at the Vienna Academy, studying piano with Josef Hofmann (a teacher with the same name as the pianist) and conducting with Alexander Wunderer and Franz Schalk.
Karajan made his debut as a conductor in Salzburg on 22 January 1929. The performance got the attention of the general manager of the Stadttheater in Ulm and led to Karajan's first appointment as assistant Kapellmeister of the theater. His senior colleague in Ulm was Otto Schulmann. After Schulmann was forced to leave Germany in 1933 with the NSDAP takeover, Karajan was promoted to first Kapellmeister. ...
Source: Article "Herbert von Karajan" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Filmography (95 Appearances)
Clouzot filme Karajan : la Symphonie du Nouveau Monde de Dvořák
Grace Bumbry is Carmen
Ludwig Van Beethoven: 9 Symphonies
Karajan: Portrait of a Maestro
Rostropovich: L'archet Indomptable
Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana & Leoncavallo: Pagliacci
The Clouzot Scandal
Karajan - Der Maestro und sein Festival
Verdi: Falstaff
Herbert von Karajan – The Second Life
Karajan dirigiert Beethovens Siebente (Directors Cut)
Eroica - Director's Cut
Inside Karajan
Karajan: Beauty As I See It
Karajan - Beethoven: The Symphonies
Herbert von Karajan: Maestro for the Screen
Beethoven · Missa Solemnis (Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan)
Karajan: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphonies nos. 1-4
Karajan: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no. 9
Karajan: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphonies nos. 5-8
Karajan: Richard Strauss: Tod und Verklarung / Metamorphosen
Karajan: Richard Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie / Also Sprach Zarathustra
Karajan: Richard Strauss: Don Quixote / Ein Heldenleben
Karajan In Concert
Karajan Tchaikovsky Symphonies 4, 5 & 6
Rostropovich Life & Art
Karajan - Bruckner - Symphonies Nos. 8 & 9
Karajan: Beethoven - Symphonies 4, 5 & 6
Karajan: Beethoven - Symphonies 1, 2 & 3
Karajan · Die Symphonien
Karajan: Beethoven - Symphonies 7, 8 & 9
Karajan: Opening Concert - Berlin 750 Years
Herbert Von Karajan: Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5
Herbert von Karajan: Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6
Herbert Von Karajan: Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4
Karajan: 1988 New Year's Concert - Prokofiev & Tchaikovsky
Herbert Von Karajan: Dvorák - Symphony No. 9
Maestro, Maestro! Herbert von Karajan
The Art of Conducting: Great Conductors of the Past
Vivaldi - The Four Seasons / Von Karajan, Mutter, Berlin Philharmonic
Don Giovanni
Neujahrskonzert der Wiener Philharmoniker 1987
Herbert Von Karajan - New Year's Concert Vienna 1987
Karajan: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Requiem
Herbert von Karajan: Verdi: Don Carlo
Don Carlo
Herbert von Karajan conducts Beethoven's Symphony No. 9
Herbert Von Karajan - Berliner Philarmoniker - Debussy: La Mer, Prélude A L'après-midi D'un Faune - Ravel: Daphnis Et Chloé Suite No. 2
Karajan: Mozart - Coronation Mass
Karajan: Brahms: German Requiem
Karajan: Antonin Dvorak: Symphony No. 8
Dvorak: Symphony No. 9: From the New World
Karajan: Bach: Violin Concerto No. 2: New Year's Eve Concert 1984
Bach: Magnificat - Karajan
Herbert von Karajan: Live in Osaka
Der Rosenkavalier
Beethoven: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 61
Karajan: Beethoven: Violin Concerto
Karajan: Beethoven: Symphony 1 & 8
Karajan: Strauss: Death and Transfiguration & Metamorphosen
Herbert von Karajan: Verdi: Requiem
Brahms: The Symphonies
Zeugen des Jahrhunderts
Karajan conducts Ravel and Debussy
Karajan: New Year's Eve Concert
Wagner: Das Rheingold
Impressions of Herbert von Karajan
Biographies
Karajan Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem
Il Trovatore - Verdi
Beethoven Symphony No. 9
The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 1977
Puccini's Madama Butterfly
Karajan dirigiert Beethovens fünfte Symphonie
Otello
Eroica
Le Grand Échiquier
Beethoven - Symphony No. 7
Beethoven - Symphony No. 5
Beethoven - Symphony No. 8
Von Reinhardt bis Karajan - 50 Jahre Salzburger Festspiele
Cavalleria rusticana / Pagliacci
Verdi – Messa da Requiem
Pastorale
Tchaikovsky: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in B-Flat, Op. 23 (Karajan, Weissenberg, 1967)
Herbert von Karajan, Symphonie n°5 Beethoven
Menuhin and Karajan - The Concert Great Moments in Music
Karajan: Mozart Violin Concerto No 5, Dvorak Symphony No.9
Yehudi Menuhin und Herbert von Karajan – Mozart: Konzert für Violine und Orchester Nr. 5
aspekte
Karajan in Rehearsal
La Bohème
Der Sport-Spiegel
Der Rosenkavalier
Zeichen der Zeit