The Karajan dossier / Klaus Lang ; translated by Shaun Whiteside.
| Author/creator | Lang, Klaus |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | London : Faber, 1992. |
| Description | xviii, 233 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | "How quickly life goes on": from Karajan to Abbado -- "That's wonderful": from Furtwängler to Karajan -- "You'll become a conductor": Bernhard Paumgartner on Karajan -- "Brown clouds": the unpolitical opportunist -- "More of less for life": the controversial contract -- "Eight wild years": director of the Vienna Opera -- "The Karajan circus": Berlin's Neue Philharmonie -- "A perfectly outrageous affront": Philharmonic manoeuvres in Berlin and Vienna -- "The best and finest place to work": Karajan at sixty -- "It's not because of the speed" : the Herbert von Karajan Foundation -- "Completely self-taught": the first conducting competition -- "In the service of beauty": the first competition for youth orchestras -- "How do people listen to music?": panel discussion at the College of Music -- "Quality comes first": first interview with Karajan -- As others see him: Karajan at sixty-five -- "I always look grim": Karajan's dealings with press photographers -- "That's not so funny": the third youth orchestra competition -- "My career went very slowly" : second interview with Karajan -- "He's the bible for me": Jacek Kasprzyk on Karajan -- "A diplomat in music": Wolfgang Stresemann -- "As long as I can still hold a baton" : the fiftieth anniversary of Karajan's conducting début -- "A firm of marriage-brokers": the sixth conducting competition -- "The future lies before us": twenty-five years as chief conductor of the BPO -- "Lifeblood": Karl Böhm: an attempt at an assessment -- "Nothing's regular": Emil Maas on the internal life of the Philharmonic -- "Let's wait and see": a portrait of Peter Girth -- "I don't see anything at all": third interview with Karajan -- "That's my final word on the subject" : the Berlin Philharmonic's hundredth anniversary -- "All that remains is a monologue": Sabine Meyer -- "May harmony reign": the Chamber-Music Room -- "Interminable tensions": Karajan abandons Sabine Meyer -- "The orchestra's self-respect": the end of Karajan's autocracy -- "A damned sense of duty and obligation": Wolfgang Stresemann reappointed intendant -- "Et in terra pax": reconciliation through Bach's Mass in B minor -- "The right solutions have always been found": Wolfgang Stresemann's final farewell -- "I may be struck down tomorrow": settling old scores -- "Little more than a spanner in the works": retirement and death. |
| Abstract | Herbert von Karajan, one of the most brilliant and controversial conductors of the twentieth century, died in 1989. This is an intimate scrap-book portrait of the man and, by association, an account of the internal workings of the world's most successful orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic. The author makes use of first-hand documentation-contemporary reviews, Karajan's own speeches, interviews with prime witnesses (among others, Karl Bohm, the long-suffering Intendant Wolfgang Stresemann and leader of the orchestra Michel Schwalbe) and extensive interviews with the conductor himself. We become party to the scandals, personalities, politics, travels and gossip of the orchestra, and privy to the thoughts of an extraordinarily charismatic man--his views on subjects ranging from the acoustic and therapeutic nature of music to football, his love of flying and fast cars his obduracy. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| General note | Translated from the German. |
| Bibliography note | Bibliography: page 228. |
| LCCN | gb 92045785 |
| ISBN | 0571164080 : |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music | Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk | ML422.K22 L26 1992 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |