In 1940, when Herbert von Karajan was 32, and only 2 years after conducting the legendary Berlin Philharmonic for the first time, he performed the overture to Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (The Mastersingers of Nuremberg) with the orchestra in Berlin.
Композитор, великий дирижер, офицер люфтваффе, 1942
Молодой Караян в 1942-ом.