Word: ngler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...Vienna, Wilhelm Furtwängler, famed prewar conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic (but officially cleared of Naziism), fared less well as he appeared for a concert at the music hall. A mob met him outside with boos and catcalls, and began shoving; a Soviet sentry fired a warning shot and Furtwängler got in. But shortly the mob got in, too. The concert and the hissing began about the same time. The demonstrators: former concentration camp inmates...
...ovation that greeted Furtwä1;ngler this week might have been bigger-the audience was willing-but he cut it short. As soon as he reached the podium he raised his arms for silence, launched into his all-Beethoven program. Furtwä1;ngler's performance of the Fifth Symphony, whose first notes had been the Allies' wartime theme, brought down the house. People crowded down the aisles, cheering and calling him back time after time...