1943 HERBERT v KARAJAN & CONCERTGEBOUW Leonore Overt 78

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A series of great  classical orchestral and instrumental performances by major conductors, composers and instrumentalists.

SIEMENS SPEZIAL EXPERIMENTAL RECORD WITH THE SILVER PROCESS OF THE ELCTRO_ACOUSTIC RESEARCH LABORATORY

  
Germany is fightign the War, and Karajan is being sent into occupied Ntherlands as a cultural appeaser and ambassador of the NAZI REGIME:

One of the rare outside Germany 1943 recordings and war-time pressing of Herbert Von Karajan ( he also conducted with the Turin radio orchestra, but his foreign appearances were rare, since karajan wanted a lot of money)

 Ludwig van Beethoven – Leonore III (15.IX.1943)
Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam
Herbert von Karajan

This is a rare 1943  Deutsche Grammophon pressing, with the
SIEMENS SPEZIAL EXPERIMENTAL RECORD WITH THE SILVER PROCESS OF THE ELCTRO_ACOUSTIC RESEARCH LABORATORY

Oh, and this is one of the last records beforeGoebbels shut down Record pressing in 194ewhen he declared the Total war. that's why you don't see many 1943 records around.

complete on 2x12" 78 rpm records

Condition:

EXCELLENT minus, basically unworn and very quiet. Some scuffing, few short scratches on part 3 & 1

Herbert von Karajan (April 5, 1908 – July 16, 1989) was an Austrian conductor. His obituary in the New York Times described him as "probably the world's best-known conductor and one of the most powerful figures in classical music," and placed him "in the topmost ranks of 20th-century conductors."[1] Karajan conducted the Berlin Philharmonic for thirty-five years.

Biography

 Genealogy
Herbert von Karajan was the son of an upper-bourgeois Salzburg family of Greek ancestry. His great-great-grandfather, Georg Johannes Karajanis (Greek: Ge?????? ??????? ?a?a???????), was born in Kozani, at that time a town in the Ottoman Empire now in Greek Macedonia, leaving for Vienna in 1767, and eventually Chemnitz, Saxony. He and his brother participated in the establishment of Saxony's cloth industry, and both were ennobled for their services by Frederick Augustus III on June 1, 1792, thus the prefix "von" to the family name. The Karajanis name became Karajan.

Even though, since Austria abolished all titles of nobility in 1918, Herbert Karajan did a technical misdemeanor by calling himself "VON". Even today's royal pretender is still only Otto Habsburg : )

 Early years
Karajan was born in Salzburg, Austria as Heribert Ritter von Karajan.[5] From 1916 to 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 Kapellmeister 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 concerts 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 [1] [6]. 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, was hailed by a Berlin critic as Das Wunder Karajan (The Karajan miracle). 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 Zauberflöte. Adolf Hitler did not appreciate Von Karajan's performance of Die Meistersinger June 1939 according to Winifred Wagner because Karajan who was conducting without a score lost his way, the singers halted, the curtain was rung down in confusion. According to Winifred Wagner Hitler decided that Von Karajan was not ever to conduct at the annual Bayreuth festival. However as a favourite of Hermann Göring he would continue his work as conductor of the Staatkapelle (1941-1945), the orchestra of the Berlin State Opera, where he would accompany about 150 opera performances in total.

Karajan’s Heldensonate, composed shortly after the German invasion of Austria, and which he had originally titled Anschluß Sonate, was performed in 1938 at one of the Wahnfried receptions Hitler attended annually. That work's only published recording was an April Fool's Day selection for the MusicWeb reviewing site. Its provenance is unclear, and it is not even clear that this disc has ever actually been auditioned.

On October 22, 1942 at the height of the war, Karajan married Anita Gütermann, the daughter of a well-known sewing machine magnate, and who, having a Jewish grandfather, was considered Vierteljüdin (one-quarter Jewish). After the wedding, the NSDAP decided that she was to become one of Germany's five "honorary Aryans".[7] By 1944, he was, according to Karajan, on the outs with the Nazi leaders, but Karajan still conducted concerts in wartime Berlin on Feb 18, 1945 and fled Germany with Anita for Milan a short time later.[8] Karajan and Anita divorced in 1958.

Karajan was deposed by the Austrian denazification examining board on March 18, 1946 and resumed his conducting career shortly thereafter.[9]

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