Was Karajan a cousin of Hugo Wolf?
UncategorizedResearch in Slovenia reveals that their ancestors came from the same small village.
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Separated at birth?
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Always interesting, but not really relevant, if the two shared a common ancestor who was born before 1700, as the article tells us.
Also the author is misguided in assuming musical talent being genetically inherited. No such scientific evidence exists, that there is much significance in your parents particular DNA, regarding musical talent.
But I like, how some of the most interesting artists have some of the most diverse genetical inheritance.
It seems to be a pattern, that mixing between ethnicities is good for mankind and isolation means retardation.
I agree that mixing between ethnicities is ultimately good for mankind although couples from different ethnic backgrounds frequently have a tougher time of it, both because of external prejudice and their own cultural differences.
I believe this current interest in DNA testing and ancestry smacks of racism and elitism.
Culture means everything. DNA means nothing.
Some of those private businesses advertising with people learning about ‘English’ or ‘Scandinavian’ DNA in their personal ancestry: Total bullshit, since no such specific DNA pools exist in the first place. It’s much more general and diffuse than that.
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/02/21/three-african-men-arrested-cannibalism-migrant-heavy-paris-suburb/
This didn’t happen in the “culture” of Sub-Saharan Africa, but in the “culture” of modern day Paris.
So you think that there is no place for the millenary cannibal culture i our modern-day multicultural, global society? Well, I’m sure some troll will not agree with you (not me), and maybe call you racist, but what does it have to do with Slovenia, von Karajan & Hugo Wolff?
Anon and Sharon: both of you are off-topic and suppressive. I enjoyed the post. It’s always interesting to learn something unexpected about cultural figures. Who knows where musical talent comes from? It’s not settled science, so don’t pretend you know everything, just because your trollmasters have told you how to derail an interesting discussion. How about the Bach family? Just random beneficiaries of white privilege?
No reason to get personally offensive. No science is ever settled, only dogma is… I said already it’s interesting.
The Bach family, the sons specifically, since that’s what constitutes the musical family beyond JSB as it became famous as a topos, was immersed in their own daily life musical culture. Culture, not DNA, as far as specific musical talent is concerned. Of course certain general cognitive and physiological genetical predispositions will support musical ability, but specific musical genes are not existent, as far as we know.
Anon – I’m afraid you are misinformed. There is substantial which proves genetic foundations for musical ability.
Perfect pitch, for example has been tied to genetic inheritance. https://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/20/science/perfect-pitch-the-key-may-lie-in-the-genes.html?pagewanted=all
The abilities to recognize rhythm, melody & relative & perfect pitch have all been attributed to specific genes which we stand to inherit from our ancestors. It’s still a fairly new area of research, but the actual genes have been identified and documented with scientific studies. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4073543/
It’s actually a very relevant point that von Karajan and Wolfe may be related.
Typo in my post above – meant to say “substantial evidence”. Here’s another, slightly more palatable article about genetics & musical ability. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-do-great-musicians-have-in-common-dna/
Further proof that we’re all related anyway.
My Bacon number is 4
If we go deep enough, Karajan’s family (Karagiannis) came from an Aromanian village in Greece. In other words: Karajan’s ancestors spoke Romanian dialect.
Or was he merely a wolf in sheep’s clothing?