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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.
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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Here he was noted for his championing of contemporary music, in 1928 presenting Berg’s opera, Wozzeck, with the composer attending the final day of rehearsals. Böhm was to become as famous for his interpretations of Berg’s two operas as he was for his Wagner performances.
Bohm never took another music director's spot, preferring conducting to the distractions of administration. His Metropolitan Opera debut, and his first performance in Manhattan, took place on October 28, 1957, when he opened the company's 1957-1958 season with a new production of Mozart's Don Giovanni, in which Bohm's work was reviewed as "an ...
Explore Karl Böhm's discography including top tracks, albums, and reviews. Learn all about Karl Böhm on AllMusic.
This release brings us Karl Böhm’s acclaimed 1960s Mozart symphony recordings, newly packaged for this year’s celebrations of the composer’s 250th birthday. In terms of recordings, Böhm probably was at his best in Mozart, where he often duplicated the alacrity of his live performances in the studio. This “Prague” symphony is a ...
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.
