Gesprekken met de Oostenrijkse dirigent (1908-1989)

... Karajan had to be persuaded to bow to this unaccustomed hierarchy . He gave in reluctantly . of Back in Berlin , at the beginning of December Karajan conducted Bruckner's monumental Eighth two times in the space sixteen hours . He was ...

Herbert von Karajan emerged after World War II as the most important conductor of his generation.

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.

An Austrian, born in 1908, had particular contracts with Salzburg and Vienna, and his career included controversial musical directoriships in Ulm and Aachen.