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Karajan, Herbert von
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pronunciation:
[kara-yan]
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| Conductor, born in Salzburg, C Austria. He studied there and in Vienna, and conducted at the Städtisches Theater, Ulm (1928–33), at Aachen (1934–8), and at the Berlin Staatsoper (1938–42). After the war he was banned from working by the Russian occupation authorities until 1947, having been a member of the Nazi Party (1933–42), but in 1955 he was made principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, and it is with this orchestra that he was mainly associated until his resignation in 1989. He also conducted frequently elswhere, and was artistic director of the Salzburg Festival (1956–60) and of the Salzburg Easter Festival (from 1967). |
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