A bronze Herbert von Karajan caught mid-rehearsal, baton in hand, in the garden of the Makartplatz house where the conductor grew up. Anna Chromy cast it in 2001, so it is a recent monument rather than a historic one. Free to view, two minutes from the Mirabell Gardens entrance. Worth a short stop if you cross the Salzach toward the Neustadt.
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A bronze Herbert von Karajan caught mid-rehearsal, baton in hand, in the garden of the Makartplatz house where the conductor grew up. Anna Chromy cast it in 2001, so it is a recent monument rather than a historic one.…
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