Biography of Karayana

Herbert von Karayan Herbert von Karayan in the year, the very year when Hitler Germany annexed Austria, the thirty -year -old conductor from Salzburg conducted Richard Wagner in the Berlin Opera of Tristan and Isolde. The production was impressive, and the Austrian conductor Herbert von Karayan was extolled to heaven and called a miracle. Soon after, he signed a profitable contract with the recording studio "Deutsche Gramophone".

Deutsche Grammophon. Like many other German musicians of non -Jewish origin, Herbert von Karayan transferred the Second World War almost without loss and became one of the most recorded musicians in the post -war musical world. The conceit and ambition of the musician was no secret to anyone, but his political views were so vague that the post -war musical world looked at them through his fingers.

Herbert von Karayan was born on April 5 in Salzburg. His father was a successful doctor. In his youth, von Karayan studied music and conducting in Salzburg. In the year, he received the post of conductor of the Ulm city orchestra, and already in the year he became a capter of the orchestra in Aachen, in this position he remained up to a year. In or year, von Karayan joined the NSDAP, and in the year in the career of the musician there was a long -awaited breakthrough and he became a favorite of the Nazi elite.

In Berlin, he earned the reputation of the performer of political correct modern music, especially the works of Karl Orf and Richard Strauss. In the year, after Herbert von Karayan’s performance, Kartata Karmina Buran himself exclaimed in admiration that "the Karayan orchestra sounded fantastically." Herbert von Karayan, who was striving for musical heights, was constantly threatened by the figure of Wilhelm Furtwengler, who, despite the ambiguous position in the Third Reich, was undoubtedly outstanding the German conductor.

The competition between young von Karayan and the experienced Furtwangler was not left without attention and some considered the defeat of von Karayan obvious. The Russian Princess-Emigrant, wrote that von Karayan "is very fashionable and some revere him better than Furtwangler, but this is an absolute nonsense. He, of course, is a genius and a fiery artist, but not without self -conceit.

"Herbert von Karayan never opened openly into political affairs, but did not fail to use Nazi musical reforms. The most famous case is Richard Strauss from the post of President of the Imperial Chamber of Music for Cooperation with the Jewish libertist Stefan Cweig. Musician Peter Raaba in the Aachena Opera was, in turn, von Karayan.

The Vagnera opera, which had failed, “Meistersinger”, Hitler took this failure as a personal insult and, apparently, did not forget about it. Grandpa was a Jew. But what threatened the career of the conductor in the Third Reich saved him in the post -war years. After the war, the Soviet military command imposed a ban on the public speeches of von Karayan for his voluntary entry into the NSDAP.

And yet, by the year all the prohibitions were removed and the conductor continued his musical career. He managed to justify himself largely thanks to his wife-Poloevreka, whose national affiliation von Karayan used as the fact of his "opposition" Nazism. However, some historians are confident that he lied consciously in order to justify himself in the denacing process.

In any case, the conductor rose to the heights of success and wealth quickly and without a freezing. In the year, von Karayan took office as a music director of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. He also continued the leadership of the Viennese opera and the Salzburg festival, worked intensively in London and toured around the world. He remained the lifelong leader of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra before resigning in the year due to poor health.

Soon, von Karayan died in Salzburg, being one of the richest and most famous conductors of the world. References Kater, M. Meyer, M. Morwood, J. The Musical Times,,,,,,