Herbert von Karajan
Photoplayd Industry Rating
Not enough rated films yet to compute a weighted score.
Roles are weighted by involvement: director 1.0, screenwriter 0.7, lead 0.8, supporting 0.4, crew 0.1.
Herbert von Karajan (born Heribert Ritter[a] von Karajan; 5 April 1908 – 16 July 1989) was an Austrian conductor. He was principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic for 34 years. During the Nazi era, he debuted at the Salzburg Festival, with the Vienna Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic, and during the Second World War he conducted at the Berlin State Opera. Generally regarded as one of the greatest conductors of the 20th century, he was a controversial but dominant figure in European classical music from the mid-1950s 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 Macedonian Greek ancestry. Herbert's great-great-grandfather, Georg Karajan (Geórgios Karajánnis, Greek: Γεώργιος Καραγιάννης), was born in Kozani, in the Ottoman province of Rumelia (now in Greece), leaving for Vienna in 1767, and eventually Chemnitz, Electorate of Saxony. His last name, like several other Ottoman-era ones, contains the Turkish language prefix "kara", which means "black". 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 adding the prefix "von" to the family name. This usage disappeared with the abolition of Austrian nobility after World War I. The surname Karajánnis became Karajan. Although traditional biographers ascribed a Slovak and Serbian or simply a Slavic origin to his mother, Karajan's family from the maternal side, through his grandfather who was born in the village of Mojstrana, Duchy of Carniola (today in Slovenia), was Slovene. Aromanian heritage has also been claimed. Through the Slovene line, Karajan was related to the Slovenian-Austrian composer Hugo Wolf. He also seems to have known some Slovene. Heribert Ritter von Karajan was born in Salzburg, Austria-Hungary, the second son of senior consultant Ernst von Karajan (1868–1951) and Marta (née Martha Kosmač; 1881–1954) (married 1905). He was a child prodigy at the piano. From 1916 to 1926, he studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg with Franz Ledwinka (piano), Franz Zauer (harmony), and Bernhard Paumgartner (composition and chamber music). He was encouraged to concentrate on conducting by Paumgartner, who detected his exceptional promise in that regard. In 1926 Karajan graduated from the conservatory and continued his studies at the Vienna Academy, studying piano with Josef Hofmann (a teacher with the same name as the pianist) and conducting with Alexander Wunderer and Franz Schalk. Karajan made his debut as a conductor in Salzburg on 22 January 1929. The performance got the attention of the general manager of the Stadttheater in Ulm and led to Karajan's first appointment as assistant Kapellmeister of the theater. His senior colleague in Ulm was Otto Schulmann. After Schulmann was forced to leave Germany in 1933 with the NSDAP takeover, Karajan was promoted to first Kapellmeister. ... Source: Article "Herbert von Karajan" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Known for
Credits
La Bohème (1965)
as Self - Conductor
The Clouzot Scandal (2017)
as Self (archive footage)
Don Carlo (1986)
as Self - Conductor
Herbert von Karajan: Verdi: Requiem (1984)
as Self - Conductor
Rostropovich: L'archet Indomptable (2019)
as Self (archive footage)
Der Rosenkavalier (1984)
as Self - Conductor
Puccini's Madama Butterfly (1974)
as Self - Conductor
Von Reinhardt bis Karajan - 50 Jahre Salzburger Festspiele (1970)
as Self (archive footage)
Otello (1973)
as Conductor
The Art of Conducting: Great Conductors of the Past (1993)
as Self (archive footage)
Karajan: New Year's Eve Concert (1978)
Actor
Rostropovich Life & Art (2007)
as Self - Conductor
Der Rosenkavalier (1962)
as Self - Conductor
Karajan in Rehearsal (1965)
as Self - Conductor
Karajan: Beethoven - Symphonies 7, 8 & 9 (2005)
as Self - Conductor
Ludwig Van Beethoven: 9 Symphonies (2023)
as Conductor
Karajan Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem (1978)
as Self - Conductor
Karajan dirigiert Beethovens fünfte Symphonie (1973)
as Self - Conductor
Karajan: Beethoven - Symphonies 1, 2 & 3 (2005)
as Self - Conductor
Karajan · Die Symphonien (2005)
as Self - Conductor
Karajan: Richard Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie / Also Sprach Zarathustra (2008)
Actor
Karajan: Beethoven: Violin Concerto (1984)
Actor
Impressions of Herbert von Karajan (1978)
as Self
Beethoven Symphony No. 9 (1977)
as Self - Conductor
Inside Karajan (2008)
as Self
Beethoven - Symphony No. 8 (1971)
as Self - Conductor
Eroica (1972)
as Conductor
Grace Bumbry is Carmen (2024)
as Conductor
Il Trovatore - Verdi (1978)
as Self - Conductor
Herbert von Karajan: Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 (2001)
as Self - Conductor
Karajan: Bach: Violin Concerto No. 2: New Year's Eve Concert 1984 (1984)
as Self - Conductor
Vivaldi - The Four Seasons / Von Karajan, Mutter, Berlin Philharmonic (1990)
as Self - Conductor
Karajan: Beauty As I See It (2008)
as Self (archive footage)
Karajan: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no. 9 (2008)
Actor
Karajan: Portrait of a Maestro (2019)
as Self - Music Conductor (archive footage)
Karajan: Mozart - Coronation Mass (1985)
Actor
Beethoven - Symphony No. 5 (1971)
as Self
Beethoven - Symphony No. 7 (1971)
as Self - Conductor
Karajan: Richard Strauss: Tod und Verklarung / Metamorphosen (2008)
Actor
Tchaikovsky: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in B-Flat, Op. 23 (Karajan, Weissenberg, 1967) (1967)
as self
Karajan Tchaikovsky Symphonies 4, 5 & 6 (2007)
as Self - Conductor
Karajan: Beethoven: Symphony 1 & 8 (1984)
as Self
Bach: Magnificat - Karajan (1984)
as Self - Conductor
Dvorak: Symphony No. 9: From the New World (1985)
as Self - Conductor
Herbert von Karajan: Maestro for the Screen (2008)
as Self (archival footage)
Pastorale (1967)
as Self - Conductor
Herbert Von Karajan: Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 (2000)
as Self - Conductor
Beethoven: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 61 (1984)
as Self - Conductor
Herbert von Karajan – The Second Life (2012)
as Self (archive footage)
Karajan - Beethoven: The Symphonies (2008)
as Self - Conductor
Karajan: Brahms: German Requiem (1985)
as Conductor
Eroica - Director's Cut (2009)
as Self - Conductor
Verdi – Messa da Requiem (1967)
as Self - Conductor
Karajan: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Requiem (1986)
Actor
Menuhin and Karajan - The Concert Great Moments in Music (1966)
Actor
Karajan In Concert (2008)
as Self - Conductor
Wagner: Das Rheingold (1978)
as Self - Conductor
Karajan: Strauss: Death and Transfiguration & Metamorphosen (1984)
as dirigent
Neujahrskonzert der Wiener Philharmoniker 1987 (1987)
as Self - Conductor
Karajan dirigiert Beethovens Siebente (Directors Cut) (2010)
as Self (archive footage)
Cavalleria rusticana / Pagliacci (1970)
as Self - Conductor
Don Giovanni (1987)
as Self - Conductor
Karajan: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphonies nos. 5-8 (2008)
Actor
Karajan: Mozart Violin Concerto No 5, Dvorak Symphony No.9 (1966)
as Self - Conductor
Karajan: Antonin Dvorak: Symphony No. 8 (1985)
as Self
Herbert von Karajan: Live in Osaka (1984)
as Self - Conductor
Herbert Von Karajan: Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 (2003)
as Self - Conductor
Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana & Leoncavallo: Pagliacci (2018)
as Conductor
Karajan: Beethoven - Symphonies 4, 5 & 6 (2005)
as Self - Conductor
Herbert von Karajan: Verdi: Don Carlo (1986)
Actor
Herbert von Karajan conducts Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (1986)
as Self
Brahms: The Symphonies (1980)
as Self - Conductor
Yehudi Menuhin und Herbert von Karajan – Mozart: Konzert für Violine und Orchester Nr. 5 (1966)
as Self - Conductor
Maestro, Maestro! Herbert von Karajan (1999)
as Self
Clouzot filme Karajan : la Symphonie du Nouveau Monde de Dvořák (—)
as Chef d'Orchestre
Herbert von Karajan, Symphonie n°5 Beethoven (1967)
as Self - Conductor
The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 1977 (1977)
as Self - Conductor
Karajan conducts Ravel and Debussy (1979)
as Self
Karajan - Der Maestro und sein Festival (2017)
as Self (archive)
Beethoven · Missa Solemnis (Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan) (2008)
as Self - Conductor
Herbert Von Karajan - New Year's Concert Vienna 1987 (1987)
as Self - Conductor
Karajan - Bruckner - Symphonies Nos. 8 & 9 (2007)
as Self
Herbert Von Karajan: Dvorák - Symphony No. 9 (1999)
as Self - Conductor
Karajan: Opening Concert - Berlin 750 Years (2003)
Actor
Verdi: Falstaff (2015)
as Self - Conductor
Karajan: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphonies nos. 1-4 (2008)
Actor
Karajan conducts Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (Orch. Ravel) (1992)
as Herbert von Karajan
Karajan: Richard Strauss: Don Quixote / Ein Heldenleben (2008)
as Self - Conductor
Karajan: 1988 New Year's Concert - Prokofiev & Tchaikovsky (1999)
Actor
Herbert Von Karajan - Berliner Philarmoniker - Debussy: La Mer, Prélude A L'après-midi D'un Faune - Ravel: Daphnis Et Chloé Suite No. 2 (1985)
as Conductor