The Most Famous
CONDUCTORS from Argentina
This page contains a list of the greatest Argentinean Conductors. The pantheon dataset contains 97 Conductors, 1 of which were born in Argentina. This makes Argentina the birth place of the 19th most number of Conductors behind Latvia and Netherlands.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Argentinean Conductors of all time. This list of famous Argentinean Conductors is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Daniel Barenboim (1942 - )
With an HPI of 73.63, Daniel Barenboim is the most famous Argentinean Conductor. His biography has been translated into 45 different languages on wikipedia.
Daniel Barenboim (Hebrew: דניאל בארנבוים; born 15 November 1942) is an Argentine-born classical pianist and conductor based in Berlin. From 1992 until January 2023, Barenboim was the general music director of the Berlin State Opera and "Staatskapellmeister" of its orchestra, the Staatskapelle Berlin. Barenboim previously served as music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris and La Scala in Milan. Barenboim is known for his work with the West–Eastern Divan Orchestra, a Seville-based orchestra of young Arab and Israeli musicians, and as a resolute critic of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. Barenboim has received many awards and prizes, including seven Grammy awards, an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, France's Legion of Honour as a Commander, Grand Officier and Grand Cross, and the German Großes Bundesverdienstkreuz mit Stern und Schulterband. In 2002, along with Palestinian-American scholar Edward Said, he was given Spain's Prince of Asturias Concord Award. Barenboim is multilingual, fluent in Spanish, Hebrew, English, French, Italian, and German. A self-described Spinozist, he is significantly influenced by Spinoza's life and thought.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as conductors born between 1942 and 1942. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living conductors include Daniel Barenboim.
