Herbert Von Karajan: A Life in Music"Herbert von Karajan was one of the twentieth century's most prodigiously gifted performing artists. Richard Osborne knew him and had many conversations with him. These, however, were only the starting point for a biography which draws on interviews with those who worked with Karajan during his sixty-year career, and on a vast array of primary archive material which has never previously been examined." "This biography explores Karajan's life and music-making against the background of European music and politics in the years 1908-1989. Periods in Karajan's life hitherto ignored or believed to have been in some way covered up - his childhood in Austria during and after the First World War and his early career as a conductor in Nazi Germany - are frankly and revealingly explored."--BOOK JACKET. |
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A Salzburg education | 4 |
Nearly in the dust | 68 |
General Music Director Aachen | 91 |
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