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245 10 a| Herbert von Karajan :b| a life in music /c| Richard Osborne.;

260 a| Boston, MA :b| Northeastern University Press,c| 2000.;

300 a| x, 851 pages, 24 pages of plates :b| illustrations, portraits ;c| 25 cm;

336 a| text2| rdacontent;

337 a| unmediated2| rdamedia;

338 a| volume2| rdacarrier;

500 a| Originally published: London : Chatto & Windus, 1998.;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 760-824) and indexes.;

505 0 a| Part I: 1908-1945. An atmosphere of war -- Sunday's child -- Teachers' boy -- A Salzburg education -- Vienna -- A leader of suggestive power -- A young bandmaster from Ulm -- Swastikas in the sky -- Nearly in the dust -- 'Tell me, now: are you happy with me?' -- Chess moves -- General Music Director, Aachen -- 1938: The promised land -- 1938: Das Wunder Karajan -- Peace and war -- 'More Diogenes than Alexander ... ' -- Down, down I come -- City terrors and mountain vigils -- Flight to Italy -- Part II: 1945-1956. Captain Epstein's dilemma -- Interrogation -- An Englishman abroad -- A capacity of taking trouble -- New music: a tantrum and a tiff -- London -- A tale of two Berlins -- Furtwangler: showdown in Chicago -- Getting and spending -- The hypnotist -- Hanging on to Karajan -- Wiener Symphoniker and return to Germany -- Bachfest -- Milan, Paris, and Bayreuth -- Working with the Philharmonia -- On recording -- Crossing the Rhine -- The girl with the flaxen hair -- Tristan and Lucia -- Brandy in Les Baux -- Death and succession -- American journey -- Trouble at mill -- A resignation and three recordings -- Part III: 1957-1964. Riding high -- Incessant traffic -- Three courtships and a marriage -- Vienna and London 1959-60 -- Salzburg shenanigans -- Controlling interests -- Farewell, Vienna -- Part IV: 1964-1975. Fresh woods and pastures new -- Pilgrimage to Jarvenpaa -- Towards the Easter Festival -- Henri-Georges Clouzot -- The Easter Festival -- Carmen and Pagliacci -- An urge to educate -- Mr Andry plays his ace -- Brave new worlds -- A question of image -- Disc trouble -- Part V: 1976-1989 -- Easter 1976 -- Close encounters -- The man with the golden jug -- Phoenix -- Carpe diem -- Pleasant diversions -- 1982: Anniversary -- Pressing matters -- 1982: Divisions in the kingdom -- The Erlking -- War and peace -- Soldiering on -- Trouble over Taiwan -- Resignation -- A necessary end -- Appendix A. Herbert von Karajan, 'The Rehearsal' -- Appendix B. Karajan's membership of the Nazi Party and the trail of misinformation -- Appendix C. Karajan's deposition to the Austrian denazification examining board, 18 March 1946.;

520 a| 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. This is the "jet-set megastar" who was in reality a shy, music-obsessed, often solitary figure and a poor communicator in personal matters, yet who was also the great modern master of the orchestra, a born teacher, deeply loyal to his closest associates, and often very funny. It is the man who made and sold more best-selling LPs and CDs than any other conductor in the history of the phonograph but who, paradoxically, used the phonograph as a preparation for what was for him the holy grail of the conductor's art, the perfect live performance. The Karajan story is also the story of musicians with whom he worked. It is the story of the postwar record industry, and a number of important musical institutions: the Salzburg Festival; London's Philharmonia Orchestra in the golden age of its founder, Karajan's friend and alter ego Walter Legge; the Vienna Philharmonic and Vienna State Opera; and the Berlin Philharmonic, which Karajan coveted, served, and finally lost in what is perhaps the most extraordinary saga in the history of conductor-orchestra relationships.;

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Herbert von Karajan : a life in music / Richard Osborne.

Author/creator	Osborne, Richard, 1943-
Format	Book
Publication Info	Boston, MA : Northeastern University Press, 2000.
Description	x, 851 pages, 24 pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Subjects	Karajan, Herbert von. Conductors (Music)--Biography.

Contents	Part I: 1908-1945. An atmosphere of war -- Sunday's child -- Teachers' boy -- A Salzburg education -- Vienna -- A leader of suggestive power -- A young bandmaster from Ulm -- Swastikas in the sky -- Nearly in the dust -- 'Tell me, now: are you happy with me?' -- Chess moves -- General Music Director, Aachen -- 1938: The promised land -- 1938: Das Wunder Karajan -- Peace and war -- 'More Diogenes than Alexander ... ' -- Down, down I come -- City terrors and mountain vigils -- Flight to Italy -- Part II: 1945-1956. Captain Epstein's dilemma -- Interrogation -- An Englishman abroad -- A capacity of taking trouble -- New music: a tantrum and a tiff -- London -- A tale of two Berlins -- Furtwangler: showdown in Chicago -- Getting and spending -- The hypnotist -- Hanging on to Karajan -- Wiener Symphoniker and return to Germany -- Bachfest -- Milan, Paris, and Bayreuth -- Working with the Philharmonia -- On recording -- Crossing the Rhine -- The girl with the flaxen hair -- Tristan and Lucia -- Brandy in Les Baux -- Death and succession -- American journey -- Trouble at mill -- A resignation and three recordings -- Part III: 1957-1964. Riding high -- Incessant traffic -- Three courtships and a marriage -- Vienna and London 1959-60 -- Salzburg shenanigans -- Controlling interests -- Farewell, Vienna -- Part IV: 1964-1975. Fresh woods and pastures new -- Pilgrimage to Jarvenpaa -- Towards the Easter Festival -- Henri-Georges Clouzot -- The Easter Festival -- Carmen and Pagliacci -- An urge to educate -- Mr Andry plays his ace -- Brave new worlds -- A question of image -- Disc trouble -- Part V: 1976-1989 -- Easter 1976 -- Close encounters -- The man with the golden jug -- Phoenix -- Carpe diem -- Pleasant diversions -- 1982: Anniversary -- Pressing matters -- 1982: Divisions in the kingdom -- The Erlking -- War and peace -- Soldiering on -- Trouble over Taiwan -- Resignation -- A necessary end -- Appendix A. Herbert von Karajan, 'The Rehearsal' -- Appendix B. Karajan's membership of the Nazi Party and the trail of misinformation -- Appendix C. Karajan's deposition to the Austrian denazification examining board, 18 March 1946.
Abstract	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. This is the "jet-set megastar" who was in reality a shy, music-obsessed, often solitary figure and a poor communicator in personal matters, yet who was also the great modern master of the orchestra, a born teacher, deeply loyal to his closest associates, and often very funny. It is the man who made and sold more best-selling LPs and CDs than any other conductor in the history of the phonograph but who, paradoxically, used the phonograph as a preparation for what was for him the holy grail of the conductor's art, the perfect live performance. The Karajan story is also the story of musicians with whom he worked. It is the story of the postwar record industry, and a number of important musical institutions: the Salzburg Festival; London's Philharmonia Orchestra in the golden age of its founder, Karajan's friend and alter ego Walter Legge; the Vienna Philharmonic and Vienna State Opera; and the Berlin Philharmonic, which Karajan coveted, served, and finally lost in what is perhaps the most extraordinary saga in the history of conductor-orchestra relationships.
General note	Originally published: London : Chatto & Windus, 1998.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 760-824) and indexes.
LCCN	99059108
ISBN	1555534252

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