I really enjoyed listening to this interesting and fascinating man! What an amazing career in music, he will always be a true icon in the world of classical music.
Wunderbare Dokumentation, über einen komplexen Künstler, der noch das erhabene Bild der Musikwelt vertrat und höchste Achtung von den Sängern und Orchestern genoss.
Bohm was a great musician and was very fortunate to have had the great German conductor Bruno Walter's generous support as a young man just learning his trade.
Re: Bohm’s alleged ‘Nazism’. I’ve heard so many stories about the behaviour of Astro-German musicians in the 30s and 40s and I’m hesitant to believe any of them. I don’t think people who have never lived under a totalitarian regime have earned the right to criticise the actions of those who have.
I agree completely - far too many people have raced to judgement on Böhm, Karajan, Strauss and others - the fear under which these people lived their lives is, thankfully, unimaginable to us today.
@@andreaguarino8207 Who are you to proclaim such a thing! You may well say that you would act more nobly under a totalitarian regime by rejecting pervasive dogma, but I very much doubt so -- fear alone would drive you to conformity. Böhm, too, in being one of the most influential (and I dare say prolific) conductors of the 20th century has had a huge positive artistic influence by faithfully extending the grand (Austro-Gernman) tradition established by our predecessors. "One of the worse [sic] human being [sic]" -- I don't think so!
@@mercedes932 Conformism is a singularly powerful compulsion, completely independently of what it dictates in any particular era. And not so easily recognized.
Strauss wollte immer wieder die Menschen schocken wenn ihm eine Frage oder Aussage nicht passte. Als ein Kritiker sich irritiert über die, damals neu komponierte, Elektra zeigte entgegnete Strauss: Ja mei, wenn a Mensch daschlang wird kann i koa Violinkonzert spuin lassn!
And Wagner ? Only three words on the Neue Bayreuth ? While Böhm left us the most exciting complete of the "Ring" (1966-67) with Nilsson, Windgassen, Adam, Brouwenstein, Greindl, Neidlinger, King, Rysanek ! Nothing on "Tristan" with Birgit Nilson and Jon Vickers at Orange? A little disappointing, despite a lot of interesting things.
Hi, would you have a separate subtitle file please? Or something I could use to translate the subtitles? It's for educational purpose. Thanks in advance
I'm wondering how few symphonic conductors of the Austro-German school did not start from an operatic, or otherwise vocal, background. Furtwängler and I think Nikisch, perhaps coincidentally.
@@leoploner8929 I think either FM CLASSIC or GRAMMOPHONE magazine asked current Conductors which 3 Conductors from the past most influenced them. Kleiber was listed all over the place. Kleiber and Bernstein. Unfortunately, I don't remember seeing Böhm.
alexger85 I met him once & you are right. He was also open... for instance, about his failed marriage to Christa Ludwig... even about Fritz Wunderlich’s fatal accident in 1966.
@Schöneberger Must have written that in the middle of the night. Sorry. It happened in the hunting lodge of basso profundo Gottlob Frick. Walter Berry told me that Fritz had seen the warning on the stairway, but had drunk a few glasses of wine & hence forgot about it. He also hadn't redone his boot laces. He'd telephoned his wife Eva & said he was tired. Voilà.
Bohm never actually studied Conducting? And even beat 4/4 wrong in the beginning?? I'll bet he picked up much more from Bruno Walter than he mentioned.
One rather important detail that isn't "remembered" in this video memoir is Böhm's support for Nazism, which proved helpful in advancing his career during the 1930s and early 40s.
Documentaries about John Wayne don't mention that he voted for Richard Nixon, and thus was partly responsible for the mass bombings of Vietnam and the Watergate scandal. Many american actors, artists and musicians you like were members of organisations of that country and supported their government at that time. Same with many East Block ones. My point is that you can't choose where and when you were born, and you can never have hindsight beforehand. Personally, I hate when politics, religion or sexuality issues take away reasons for liking music and art.
@@Gumbypotty Comparer Truman et Nixon.. . avec Hitler ?....c'est VRAIMENT absurde . J'ai de l'admiration pour Truman et Nixon. Votre argumentation....est si faible que je ne la discute même pas.
@@southfloridaarcheryguy114 A person who both embraced Nazism and benefitted from it, and moreover never took responsibility for his behavior, is not someone worthy of admiration.
When people are successful in their professional lives, do we then forgive them every degree of self-complacency? Disgusting personality. 32:34 "Es wurde das Foyer gerettet (beim Brand der Wiener Oper), weil ich die Idee hatte, blablabla." Dirigent mit Beamtenseele, Mensch ohne jede Selbstdistanz.
@@tgv3000 Gleich allen Menschen. Erinnerung ist von Natur aus immer selektiv. Das ist der Charakter der Erinnerung. Sollten übrigens alle jene, die ihn von 1957 bis zu seinem Lebensende ausgezeichnet haben, geirrt oder Nazis gewesen sein? Auch die Franzosen?
You know what really induces throwing up? People who find themselves better from a moral standpoint without taking into account historical circumstances (albeit without justifying the behavior of people). I think I just threw up.
@ waltervonstolzing 13 Hören Sie lieber zu, was Dr. Karl Böhm uns kenntnisreich zu sagen hat. Und lauschen Sie den Musikausschnitten. Dann haben Sie auch keinen Brechreiz mehr, der ja von keinem guten Allgemeinzustand zeugt.
