Dimensions
156 x 234 x 64mm
Herbert von Karajan was one of the twentieth century's most prodigiously gifted performing artists. Richard Osborne knew him and had many conversations with him. These, however, were only the starting point for a biography which draws on interviews with those who worked with Karajan during his sixty-year career, and on a vast array of primary archive material which has never previously been examined.
This biography explores Karajan's life and music-making against the background of European music and politics in the years 1908 - 1989. This epic biography explores the enigma of the man whose personality was inseparable from the history of his age and his own background.
