The Most Famous

CONDUCTORS from Latvia

Icon of occuation in country

This page contains a list of the greatest Latvian Conductors. The pantheon dataset contains 128 Conductors, 2 of which were born in Latvia. This makes Latvia the birth place of the 17th most number of Conductors behind Spain, and Estonia.

Top 2

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Latvian Conductors of all time. This list of famous Latvian Conductors is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

Photo of Grzegorz Fitelberg

1. Grzegorz Fitelberg (1879 - 1953)

With an HPI of 48.63, Grzegorz Fitelberg is the most famous Latvian Conductor.  His biography has been translated into 21 different languages on wikipedia.

Grzegorz Fitelberg (18 October 1879 – 10 June 1953) was a Polish conductor, violinist and composer. He was a member of the Young Poland group, together with artists such as Karol Szymanowski, Ludomir Różycki and Mieczysław Karłowicz.

Photo of Andris Nelsons

2. Andris Nelsons (b. 1978)

With an HPI of 46.13, Andris Nelsons is the 2nd most famous Latvian Conductor.  His biography has been translated into 30 different languages.

Andris Nelsons (born 18 November 1978) is a Latvian conductor. He is currently music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Gewandhauskapellmeister of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. He was previously music director of the Latvian National Opera, chief conductor of the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, and music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.

People

Pantheon has 2 people classified as Latvian conductors born between 1879 and 1978. Of these 2, 1 (50.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Latvian conductors include Andris Nelsons. The most famous deceased Latvian conductors include Grzegorz Fitelberg.

Living Latvian Conductors

Go to all Rankings

Deceased Latvian Conductors

Go to all Rankings