Wolfgang Stresemann was a German jurist, orchestra leader, conductor and composer. He was the intendant of the Berliner Philharmoniker from 1959 to 1978 and again from 1984 to 1986, a time when Herbert von Karajan

Herbert von Karajan

Herbert von Karajan was an Austrian orchestra and opera conductor. To the wider world he was perhaps most famously associated with the Berlin Philharmonic, of which he was principal conductor for 35 years...

 served as music director.

He is the son of the German statesman and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Gustav Stresemann

Gustav Stresemann

was a German politician and statesman who served as Chancellor and Foreign Minister during the Weimar Republic. He was co-laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1926.Stresemann's politics defy easy categorization...

 and his Jewish wife Käthe, born Kleefeld.

Publications

• Mein Vater, Gustav Stresemann (1979)
• Ein seltsamer Mann; Erinnerungen an Herbert von Karajan
• Wie konnte es geschehen? Hitlers Aufstieg in der Erinnerung eines Zeitzeugen
• Philharmonie und Philharmoniker
• ... und abends in die Philharmonie. Erinnerungen an große Dirigenten
• Zeiten und Klaenge: Ein Leben zwischen Musik und Politik
• Eine Lanze für Felix Mendelssohn
  Felix Mendelssohn
  Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Barthóldy , use the form 'Mendelssohn' and not 'Mendelssohn Bartholdy'. The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians gives ' Felix Mendelssohn' as the entry, with 'Mendelssohn' used in the body text...