This is the official book supporting 'Karajan 2008,' a worldwide campaign to celebrate Karajan's centenary.Herbert von Karajan, arguably the greatest and most flamboyant conductor and musical director of his time, remains today as one of the giants of 20th-century classical music. His contribution to classical music, his legacy, and his celebrity ...
'A monumental work of scholarship, of integrity, of sympathy born of respect and humanity. A woven tapestry, rather than a mere listing of events and accomplishments, it reveals itself quietly and objectively, leaving the reader to judge a man whose personality was inseparable from the history of the age and his own background. ' Yehudi Menuhin. ...
Herbert von Karajan is one of the century's most admired and widely discussed musicians. In these conversations, completed only weeks before Karajan's death in July 1989, Richard Osborne focuses on Karajan the musician to reveal a man very different from the jet-setting tycoon of popular legend. Karajan emerges in the course of this book as a ...
Herbert von Karajan, the conductor, died in 1989 at the age of 81. His career was one of the most controversial in the history of classical music; he was dogged by his early collaboration with the Nazis (he was invited to conduct the Berlin State Opera in 1937 at the expense of the politically "obstinate" Furtwangler), and admired and vilified ...
Bachmann, who knew Herbert von Karajan for many years, has successfully penetrated the smokescreen of flattery and half-truths which comprised the earlier biographies of the famed musical conductor, to give us an unsparingly honest portrait of the man behind the legend--fanatically devoted to his work and possessed of an unparalleled ambition. 8 ...
Die einzelnen BeitrAge aus den verschiedensten Wissensgebieten der Natur- und Geisteswissenschaft geben ein biographisches Abbild von der Vielfalt der Interessen des Jubilars:
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons
Date Published: 1981
Description: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. Barely noticeable shallow dent in top edge of back cover, else binding is clean, sound and unworn. Contents are almost like new. DJ's spine is faded but lettring is unaffected. Minor wear on the clean, complete DJ.; Maroon cloth spine, bright gold lettering. MUSIC. "With the devilish wit and unyielding dedication to maintaining the 'grand' in grand opera which has made him great, Sir Rudolf reveals what running the country's greatest opera company entails. He ... read more
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