Early years
Karajan was born in Salzburg, Austria as Heribert Ritter von Karajan. From
1916 t0 1926, he studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, where he was encouraged
to study conducting.
In 1929, he conducted Salome at the Festspielhaus in Salzburg, and from 1929
to 1934, Karajan served as first Kaprllmeister at the Stadttheater in Ulm. In
1933, Karajan made his conducting debut at the Salzburg Festival with the
Walpurgisnacht Scene in Max Reinhardt's production of Faust. The following
year, and again in Salzburg, Karajan led the Vienna Philharmonic for the first
time, and from 1934 to 1941, Karajan conducted opera and symphony concert at
the Aachen opera house.
In march of 1935, Karajan's career was given a significant boost when he
applied for membership in the Nazi Party. That same year, Karajan was appointed
Germany's youngest Generalmusikdirektor and was a guest conductor in Bukarest,
Brussels, Stockholm, Amsterdam, and Paris. Moreover, in 1937, Karajan made his
debut with the Berlin Philharmonic and the Berlin State Opera with Fidelio. He
enjoyed a major success with Tristan und Isolde and in 1938, his performance of
the opera was hailed by a Berlin critic as Das Wunder Karajan (The Karajan
miracle), claiming that his "success with Wagner's demanding work Tristan und
Isolde sets himself alongside Furtwangler and de Sabata, the greatest opera
conductors in Germany at the present time". Receiving a contract with Deutsche
Grammophon that same year, Karajan made the first of numerous recordings by
conducting the Staatskapelle Berlin in the overture to Die Zauberflote. Adolf
Hitler did not appreciate Von Karajan's performance of Winifred Wanger because
Karajan who was conducting without a score lost his way, tje singers halted,
the curtain was rung down in confusion. According to Winifred Wanger Hilter
decidesd that Von Karajan was not ever to conduct at the annual Bayreuth
festival. However as a favourite of Hermann Goring he would continue his work
as conductor of tje Staatkappelle (1941-1945), the orchestra of the Berlin
State Opera, where he would accompany about 150 opera performances in total.
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