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Herbert von Karajan

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Profession
Conductor
Died
Jul 16, 1989
Zodiac
Aries
Born in
Austria
About
Remembered best for his nearly four-decade career as the conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, von Karajan sold close to two hundred million recordings and won numerous honors, including the Austrian Medal for Science and Art; the Grand Merit Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany; and the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize.
Family
He was born in Salzburg, Austria-Hungary, to a family of Greek and Slovene ancestry. On his maternal side, he was distantly related to composer Hugo Wolf.

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