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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 ...
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 ...
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"Then in 1931 I went to Hamburg where I was to be musical director for four years, followed by nine years in Dresden. I met Strauss for the first time when I was in Hamburg, where we did a new production of Elektra. After that we were close friends for the rest of his life.
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.
Apr 17, 2024 · 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. Böhm came under public criticism for taking the Dresden position because he had replaced Fritz Busch, who had been forced to resign by the Nazis; Böhm replaced Bruno Walter at Salzburg in 1938 ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Compiled By – Alan Newcombe. Conductor – Karl Böhm. Cover – Dorothea Desmarowitz. Cover, Illustration – Friedrich Karl Waechter *, Theo Zache. Cover, Painting – Anton Depauly, Anton Miksch (2), Christian Leberecht Vogel, Franz Von Lenbach, George Stubbs (2), Karl Truppe, Ludwig Michalek, Max Liebermann.
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)
