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He became the assistant director of music in 1919, and the following year, the senior director. On the recommendation of Karl Muck, Bruno Walter engaged him at the Bavarian State Opera, Munich in 1921. An early assignment here was Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail, with a cast which included Maria Ivogün, Paul Bender, and Richard Tauber ...
On the occasion of Karl Böhm’s 85 th birthday on August 28, 1979, the City Senate decided to rename the Municipal Hall “Karl-Böhm-Saal”. Born in Graz in 1894, the conductor had begun his career at the opera house there and was appointed General Music Director in Hamburg in 1931, after stations in Munich and Darmstadt.
Tuesday, August 16, 2011. This week marked the 30th anniversary of the death of Karl Böhm. We looked through the Gramophone archive and found this interview with the legendary Austrian conductor from 1972 when the music critic Alan Blyth sought out Böhm in Salzburg. The result was a stunning insight into one of classical music's finest minds ...
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Apr 17, 2024 · His debut at the Graz Opera House in 1917 was followed three years later by his appointment there as its first conductor. In 1921 he joined the Munich Opera. Böhm became musical director at Darmstadt in 1927, at Hamburg in 1931, and at Dresden in 1934. He made his London debut at Covent Garden in 1936.
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May 23, 2018 · Böhm, Karl. Böhm, Karl, renowned Austrian conductor; b. Graz, Aug. 28, 1894; d. Salzburg, Aug. 14, 1981. He studied law before enrolling at the Graz Cons., where he took lessons in piano and theory; subsequently he studied musicology with Mandyczewski at the the Univ. of Vienna. After service in the Austrian Army during World War I, he made ...
Audience address at close of concert by Karl Böhm [1:18] Symphony No. 5 in B flat major, D485 (1816) [25:45] Extracts of two Richard Strauss works with spoken commentary by Karl Böhm [20:23] Staatskapelle Dresden/Karl Böhm rec. Dresden, Germany: 1942, Steinsaal, German Hygiene Museum (Symphony 5), 1979 live, Kulturpalast (Symphonies 8 & 9)
Karl Böhm. Karl Böhm was born in Graz in Austria of German-Bohemian descent through his father (Böhm may be translated as meaning ‘Bohemian’), and of French-Alsatian lineage on his mother’s side. His uncle, General Stiger-Steiner, had been a Minister for War in the Austrian government, while his father was a lawyer and, although an ...
