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Wilhelm Furtwängler had the edge in prestige but Herbert von Karajan, who is only 39, was pressing him closely. Twenty-three years younger than Furtwängler, Karajan was obviously a man of whom the world would be hearing more...
...Karajan conducted the first concert of the Vienna season, and from then on he and Furtwängler took turns. Whatever Karajan did, Furtwängler set out to do better. When Karajan played an 18th Century classical suite by Locatelli, Furtwängler followed with a Handel suite. When Karajan conducted Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony, Furtwängler played Tchaikovsky's Sixth...
Furtwängler is a conductor who swoops and sweeps; Karajan's conducting is as precise as his beat. But he is just as much of a showman. He conducts everything from memory and with his eyes shut. When he finishes a piece, he holds a moment of silence before allowing any applause. Then, as if waking from a trance, he droops off stage...
...play her old role of Faith in the English morality play Everyman, originally staged in Salzburg by her late, great husband, Max Reinhardt. Yet to appear: Conductor John Barbirolli, Yehudi Menuhin and Grace Moore. Conspicuously absent was Austria's No. 1 conductor, arrogant 37-year-old Herbert von Karajan, a Salzburg boy who made good in Germany under the sponsorship of Hermann Göring. The Allied Council in Vienna turned him down at the last minute...
...Most-talked-of conductor in Berlin was dark, handsome, poised, 30-year-old Herbert von Karajan. He waves the baton at the State Opera, is rated only a notch below deaconlike Conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler of the Berlin Philharmonic...