The 1984 Berlin Wood Concert was conducted by Karajan.
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Herbert Von Karajan (1908-1989), Austrian conductor.
Karajan was born in Salzburg, Mozart's hometown, on April 5, 1908.
Although my parents are not professional musicians, they both like music very much.
My father can play the clarinet, my mother is an amateur pianist, and my brother has learned to play the piano since he was a child.
Therefore, Karajan has lived in a musical environment since he was a child.
He began to learn piano at the age of 4 and performed in public at the age of 5.
At the age of 8, he entered the Mozarteum Conservatoire in Salzburg to study piano.
Karajan's hands were small and he suffered from tenosynovitis due to excessive practice. The teacher discovered that he had a high talent for conducting and suggested that he switch to conducting.
After obtaining his parents' permission, Karajan came to Vienna, the capital of music, to study with Franz Schalke, the then famous conductor of the Vienna Opera House.
In 1927, the conductor of the Opera House in Ulm, a small town in Germany, fell ill temporarily. Karajan conducted the opera "The Marriage of Figaro" on his behalf. The performance was extremely successful and the audience applauded thunderously.
The Ulm Opera House immediately signed a seven-year work contract with him. From then on, Karajan, who was only 19 years old, began his conducting career.
In 1935, Karajan applied to serve as conductor and chief music director of the Aachen Opera House, where he conducted "The Ring of the Nibelung".
After performing, he still studied hard and studied hard, and his conducting skills became increasingly mature.
In 1937, he guest-conducted Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" at the Berlin Opera House, causing a sensation. Berlin newspapers applauded, and Karajan became a blockbuster. This performance became a turning point in his life.
From then on, in addition to his activities in Berlin, Karajan also cooperated with major European opera houses and orchestras, and toured throughout Europe and the United States. Wherever he went, he was very popular.
In 1941, he was appointed chief conductor of the Berlin State Opera, and in the following year he was appointed chief conductor of the Berlin Symphony Orchestra. In 1949, he became the head of the Vienna "Friends of Music" association. In 1955, he succeeded Furtw?ngler as conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1956, he became the conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
He succeeded B?hm as music director of the Vienna State Opera and served as artistic director of the Salzburg Festival.
In order to implement his artistic ideas, he also founded music festivals in his own name and was known as the "Music Director" of Europe.
Karajan is not only well-known in Europe and the United States, but also extremely popular in the East. He has led delegations to visit Japan several times and was invited to serve as a guest conductor.
In 1979, he led the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra to visit Beijing. The orchestra's collaborative performance with the Central Orchestra was extremely successful and was warmly welcomed by the audience. Many professional musicians came from Shanghai, Tianjin, Xi'an and other places to observe and learn from the performance.
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This performance became a major event in my country's music scene.
Karajan studied with the internationally renowned German conductor Furtw?ngler and the Italian conductor Toscanini in the first half of the 20th century. He absorbed the strengths of these two schools and gradually formed his own style through long-term artistic practice.
Unique commanding style.
His command movements are free and easy, generous and majestic, and he is known for his accuracy and objectivity.
When he conducts, he not only devotes himself wholeheartedly to the music, but is also good at inspiring the band members so that they know how to play, and firmly attracts the band with his magical movements.
The goal he pursued was to "combine the precision of Toscanini with the fantasy of Furtw?ngler."
It is his musical talent, coupled with his correct understanding of music and strict requirements for the band, that his performances can always reach an extraordinary and outstanding artistic level.
Karajan is the most famous conductor in the 20th century. Due to his extraordinary musical talent, amazing conducting skills, and incredible charisma in commanding the orchestra, he is known as the European music director in the second half of the 20th century and a leading figure in the international music scene.
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Among Karajan's students, Japan's Seiji Ozawa and Italy's Abbado have become world-class conductors today.
Karajan's repertoire is extremely extensive, and his interpretations of Beethoven and Wagner's works are even more well-known.
At the same time, he was a master conductor who recorded records. He left more than 800 records in his life, with a total sales volume of more than 100 million.
He has collaborated with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra on more than 300 albums, including 31 albums in 1971 alone.
Each work had to be played dozens of times, and it took more than a year to record Beethoven's complete set of symphonies, which is recognized as the best in the world.
His first recording was "The Magic Flute" published by Polydor in 1938, performed at the Berlin State Opera.
Operas include: Mozart's "The Magic Flute" (Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, EMI), "Cosù" (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, EMI), Beethoven's "Fidelio" (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, EMI), Wagner
"Tristan" (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, EMI), "Meistersinger" (Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra, EMI), "Parsifal" (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, DG), Verdi's "
Aida" (Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, EMI, DECCA), "Otello" (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, DECCA, EMI), Puccini's "Madame Butterfly" (Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, DECCA), Richard
Strauss's "Der Rosenkavalier" (EMI), Mussorgsky's "Boris Godonov" (Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, DECCA), Debussy's "Pellilis et Mélisande"
》(Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, EMI) etc.