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He secured a top post at the Vienna State Opera in 1943, eventually becoming music director. On the occasion of the 80th birthday of Richard Strauss, on 11 June 1944, he conducted the Vienna State Opera performance of Ariadne auf Naxos. After World War II
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.
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In 1938 he took part in the Salzburg Festival for the first time, conducting Don Giovanni, and thereafter he became a permanent guest conductor. He secured a top post at the Vienna State Opera in 1943, eventually becoming music director.
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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
In 1970 he was named as general music director of Austria and in 1977 as president of the London Symphony Orchestra, with whom he had appeared at the Salzburg Festival. Throughout this period he was active as a guest conductor with orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic, the Berlin Radio Symphony, the London Symphony, the Dresden ...
Current as of April 2023. Next to the all-dominant figure of Herbert von Karajan, Karl Böhm was the most influential conductor personality of the Salzburg Festival after World War II. For over forty years, he conducted operas nearly every summer, as well as many concerts – leading more than 300 performances on the Festival’s stages in total.
Apr 15, 2021 · Born: August 28, 1894 - Graz, Austria. Died: August 14, 1981 - Salzburg, Austria. The Austrian conductor, Karl Böhm, the son of a lawyer, studied law before he entered the Graz Conservatory and then the Vienna Conservatory, where he studied under Eusebius Mandyczewski, the friend of Johannes Brahms.