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Anton Karas

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Also known as Anton Karl Karas

Austrian musician, composer (1906–1985)

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Active from
1906-07-07
Active to
1985-01-10

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Anton Karas (July 7, 1906 – January 10, 1985) was a Viennese zither player, best known for his soundtrack to Carol Reed's The Third Man. The son of a car worker, Anton Karas began playing the Zither at the age of 12. He subsequently earned his living as an entertainer in a Heurige (Viennese Wine Bar). In 1949 director Carol Reed was shooting The Third Man in Vienna when he heard Karas playing the zither. Immediately taken by the sound of the instrument Reed asked him to supply the background mu

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing

    · 2012 · cited 24,059x

  2. QUANTUM ESPRESSO: a modular and open-source software project for quantum simulations of materials

    · 2009 · cited 22,526x

  3. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    · 2020 · cited 15,326x

  4. Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis

    · 2022 · cited 13,058x

  5. Double-slit photoelectron interference in strong-field ionization of the neon dimer

    · 2019 · cited 7,832x

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1906 births1985 deaths20th-century Austrian composers20th-century Austrian male composers20th-century Austrian musiciansAustrian composersAustrian people of Hungarian descentBurials at Sievering CemeteryLondon Records artistsMusicians from ViennaPeople from BrigittenauUniversity of Music and Performing Arts Vienna alumniZither players