Artist
Herbert von Karajan
Herbert von Karajan is a conductor artist from Salzburg, Austria. 14 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Conductor · Salzburg, Austria · Best conductor albums
- 14
- Releases
- 1957–2008
- Active years
Artist
Herbert von Karajan is a conductor artist from Salzburg, Austria. 14 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Conductor · Salzburg, Austria · Best conductor albums
Herbert von Karajan (born Heribert, Ritter von Karajan; April 1908 – 16 July 1989) was an Austrian orchestra and opera conductor. To the wider world he was perhaps most famously associated with the Berlin Philharmonic, of which he was principal conductor for 35 years. Although his work was not universally admired, he is generally regarded as one of the greatest conductors of the 20th century, and he was a dominant figure in European classical music from the 1960s until his death. Part of the reason for this was the large number of recordings he made and their prominence during his lifetime. By one estimate he was the top-selling classical music recording artist of all time, having sold an estimated 200 million records. The Karajans were of Greek-Macedonian or Aromanian ancestry. His great-great-grandfather, Georg Karajan, was born in Kozani, a town in the then Ottoman province of Rumelia (present West Macedonia in today's Greece), leaving for Vienna in 1767, and eventually Chemnitz, Electorate of Saxony. 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 the prefi…
