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The Most Famous

CONDUCTORS from Romania

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This page contains a list of the greatest Romanian Conductors. The pantheon dataset contains 97 Conductors, 1 of which were born in Romania. This makes Romania the birth place of the 21st most number of Conductors behind Argentina and India.

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

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1. Sergiu Celibidache (1912 - 1996)

With an HPI of 63.91, Sergiu Celibidache is the most famous Romanian Conductor.  His biography has been translated into 33 different languages on wikipedia.

Sergiu Celibidache (Romanian: [ˈserd͡ʒju t͡ʃelibiˈdake]; 11 July [O.S. 28 June] 1912 – 13 August 1996) was a Romanian conductor, composer, musical theorist, and teacher. Educated in his native Romania, and later in Paris and Berlin, Celibidache's career in music spanned over five decades, including tenures as principal conductor of the Munich Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, Sicilian Symphony Orchestra and several other European orchestras. Later in life, he taught at Mainz University in Germany and the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Celibidache frequently refused to release his performances on commercial recordings during his lifetime, claiming that a listener could not have a "transcendental experience" outside the concert hall. Many of the recordings of his performances were released posthumously. He has nonetheless earned international acclaim for his interpretations of the classical repertoire and was known for a spirited performance style informed by his study and experiences in Zen Buddhism. He is regarded as one of the greatest conductors of the 20th century.

Pantheon has 1 people classified as conductors born between 1912 and 1912. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased conductors include Sergiu Celibidache.

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