{"id":45889,"date":"2024-08-08T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/416758dd-6ce6-4843-bd5b-8d8ff075314b"},"modified":"2024-08-08T16:07:14","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T14:07:14","slug":"karajan-in-quotes-8-comments-about-the-controversial-conductor-by-critics-and-performers","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/rss_feed\/karajan-in-quotes-8-comments-about-the-controversial-conductor-by-critics-and-performers\/","title":{"rendered":"Karajan in quotes: 8 comments about the controversial conductor by critics and performers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Published: Thursday, 08 August 2024 at 13:00 PM<\/p>

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Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan’s affiliation with Nazi Germany and his dictatorial approach to conducting still cause controversy. <\/strong><\/p>

We take look at Karajan in quotes \u2013 8 things critics and performers have said about the controversial conductor over the years…<\/strong><\/p>

Herbert von Karajan: godlike conductor, ambitious autocrat and Nazi Party member<\/a><\/strong><\/li><\/ul>
Conductor Wilhelm Furtw\u00e4ngler reacts jealously to positive Karajan reviews in 1940<\/h2>
\u2018If they [the critics] overrate material qualities such as the technique of conducting from memory, they are prizing hard work instead of artistic practice. They are aligning themselves with the stupid people who never seem to be in short supply, and who feel nostalgic for the circus when they are in the concert hall.’<\/p>
Karajan conducting: five fantastic Karajan moments<\/a><\/strong><\/li><\/ul>
<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Karajan conducts Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Berlin Philharmonic<\/figcaption><\/figure><ul><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/artists\/berlin-philharmonic\">All you need to know about the Berlin Philharmonic, the acclaimed German orchestra<\/a><\/strong><\/li><\/ul><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-karajan-in-quotes-joseph-goebbels-reich-minister-of-propaganda-1940\">Karajan in quotes: Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister of Propaganda, 1940<\/h2><p>\u2018The F\u00fchrer has a very low opinion of Karajan and his conducting\u2019<\/p><ul><li><strong><a class=\"standard-card-new__article-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/composers\/4-jewish-composers-suppressed-by-nazism-and-the-third-reich\/\">4 Jewish composers suppressed by Nazism and the Third Reich<\/a><\/strong><\/li><\/ul><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-emi-record-producer-walter-legge-on-karajan-contract-negotiations-1958\">EMI record producer Walter Legge on Karajan contract negotiations, 1958<\/h2><p>\u2018Now proudly conscious of his unique eminence, and having more power and authority than any conductor ever had, [he] is out for his last ounce of flesh, both in conditions and for the satisfaction of his ego.\u2019<\/p><ul><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/artists\/conductor-types\">He was rumoured to carry a loaded revolver’: from tyrant to comedian, meet the 15 types of conductor<\/a><\/strong><\/li><\/ul><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-karajan-in-quotes-english-writer-and-critic-neville-cardus-1960\">Karajan in quotes: English writer and critic Neville Cardus, 1960<\/h2><p>\u2018All over the world, people go in herds to see and hear him. He is undoubtedly a master of the orchestra, and he has some hypnotic power, though he often conducts with closed eyes\u2026\u2019<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Karajan - Rehearsal of Schumann's 4th Symphony - Part 1\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Shc-4AZVaNk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Karajan takes a rehearsal of Schumann’s Fourth Symphony<\/figcaption><\/figure><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-violinist-and-conductor-yehudi-menuhin-on-karajan-s-lack-of-compassion\">Violinist and conductor Yehudi Menuhin on Karajan’s lack of compassion<\/h2><p>\u2018To the very end, he was accustomed to exercising authority, perhaps without compassion. I don\u2019t know to what extent he was a compassionate man.\u2019<\/p><ul><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/artists\/yehudi-menuhins-finest-moments\">Yehudi Menuhin’s greatest moments<\/a><\/strong><\/li><\/ul><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-karajan-in-quotes-conductor-john-eliot-gardiner\">Karajan in quotes: conductor John Eliot Gardiner<\/h2><p>\u2018I got the impression from the concerts I attended towards the end of his life that there was something almost evil in the way he exerted the power, and that that was to the detriment of the music.\u2019<\/p><ul><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/articles\/bullying-in-music\">The curse of bullying in music: how it needs to stop<\/a><\/strong><\/li><\/ul><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-conductor-mariss-jansons-he-was-miraculous\">Conductor Mariss Jansons – he was ‘miraculous’<\/h2><p>\u2018Often in rehearsal Karajan didn\u2019t conduct. The art was to make the orchestra listen to itself. Critics sniped but, for musicians, what he did bordered on the miraculous.\u2019<\/p><ul><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/artists\/who-are-maestros-who-inspired-todays-greatest-conductors\">Who are the maestros who inspired today’s greatest conductors?<\/a><\/strong><\/li><\/ul><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-mezzo-soprano-frederica-von-stade-describes-karajan-recording-debussy-s-pelleas-et-melisande\">Mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade describes Karajan recording Debussy\u2019s <em>Pell\u00e9as et M\u00e9lisande<\/em><\/h2><p>\u2018Karajan had been all concentration. All the normal things you associate with recording \u2013 time, money, the worries you have \u2013 had simply vanished. The music was so important to him, the real world seemed to fall away.\u2019<\/p><ul><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/artists\/otto-klemperer\">Otto Klemperer: a life filled with drama<\/a><\/strong><\/li><\/ul> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Published: Thursday, 08 August 2024 at 13:00 PM Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan’s affiliation with Nazi Germany and his dictatorial approach to conducting still cause controversy. 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