Karl Leister

Clarinet master

by James Leonard

posted 3/1/2005

When Karl Leister joined the Berlin Philharmonic as principal clarinetist in 1959, the orchestra had been under the autocratic directorship of Herbert von Karajan for five years. Leister served for more than thirty years, at the center of the wind section of the most beautiful musical instrument in the world. Under von Karajan, the Berlin Philharmonic achieved

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