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Bruno Walter

1876 - 1962

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Bruno Walter (born Bruno Schlesinger, September 15, 1876 – February 17, 1962) was a German-born conductor, pianist, and composer. Born in Berlin, he escaped Nazi Germany in 1933, was naturalised as a French citizen in 1938, and settled in the United States in 1939. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bruno Walter has received more than 399,991 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia. Bruno Walter is the 13th most popular conductor (down from 12th in 2019), the 824th most popular biography from Germany (up from 851st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular German Conductor.

Bruno Walter is most famous for being a conductor, pianist, and composer. He was born in 1876 and died in 1962. He was the first conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.

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  • 400k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 62.88

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.49

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CONDUCTORS

Among conductors, Bruno Walter ranks 13 out of 128. Before him are Sergiu Celibidache, Riccardo Muti, Seiji Ozawa, Lorin Maazel, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, and Karl Böhm. After him are Dimitri Mitropoulos, Otto Klemperer, Georg Solti, Herbert Blomstedt, Rafael Kubelík, and Kurt Masur.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Bruno Walter ranks 31. Before him are Max Jacob, Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Belgium, Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia, Maxim Litvinov, Wilhelm Cuno, and Kim Koo. After him are Sherwood Anderson, Paula Modersohn-Becker, John Macleod, Wied, Prince of Albania, Jean Webster, and Rodolphe Seeldrayers. Among people deceased in 1962, Bruno Walter ranks 28. Before him are Natalia Goncharova, Shunroku Hata, Therese Neumann, Hans-Jürgen von Arnim, Charles Laughton, and Alfred Cortot. After him are Joseph Berchtold, Hans Lammers, Ronald Fisher, Ivan Meštrović, Jacques Ibert, and C. Wright Mills.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Bruno Walter ranks 824 out of 7,253. Before him are Hermann of Reichenau (1013), Klaus Nomi (1944), Peter Weiss (1916), Frei Otto (1925), Thomas Bach (1953), and George, King of Saxony (1832). After him are Sophie of Württemberg (1818), Princess Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt (1765), Bernhard Schlink (1944), Levin August von Bennigsen (1745), Sophia Dorothea of Celle (1666), and Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1671).

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Among CONDUCTORS In Germany

Among conductors born in Germany, Bruno Walter ranks 3. Before him are Wilhelm Furtwängler (1886), and Nikolaus Harnoncourt (1929). After him are Hans Knappertsbusch (1888), Eugen Jochum (1902), Franz Danzi (1763), Günter Wand (1912), Karl Muck (1859), Joseph Keilberth (1908), Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt (1900), Michael Gielen (1927), and Ferdinand Leitner (1912).

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