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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 384,120 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Bruno Walter is the 12th most popular conductor (down from 10th in 2019), the 851st most popular biography from Germany (down from 744th 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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  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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Among CONDUCTORS

Among conductors, Bruno Walter ranks 12 out of 97. Before him are Wilhelm Furtwängler, Riccardo Muti, Lorin Maazel, Sergiu Celibidache, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, and Karl Böhm. After him are Georg Solti, Otto Klemperer, Herbert Blomstedt, Kurt Masur, Rafael Kubelík, and Dimitri Mitropoulos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Bruno Walter ranks 35. Before him are Wilhelm Cuno, Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Sherwood Anderson, Max Jacob, Robert Guérin, and Jean Webster. After him are Wied, Prince of Albania, Henri de Baillet-Latour, Robert Michels, Natalie Clifford Barney, Rodolphe Seeldrayers, and Ivan Cankar. Among people deceased in 1962, Bruno Walter ranks 26. Before him are Stuart Sutcliffe, René Coty, Michael Curtiz, Hans-Jürgen von Arnim, C. Wright Mills, and Therese Neumann. After him are Joseph Berchtold, Ronald Fisher, Alfred Cortot, Hans Lammers, Georgios Papanikolaou, and Charles Laughton.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Bruno Walter ranks 851 out of 6,142. Before him are Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse (1777), Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim (1905), Philipp Otto Runge (1777), Wilhelm Kempff (1895), Hendrik Goltzius (1558), and Fritz Strassmann (1902). After him are Arno Breker (1900), Bertha Benz (1849), Joachim Frederick, Elector of Brandenburg (1546), Carl Spitzweg (1808), Hans Sachs (1494), and Joseph Berchtold (1897).

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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), Ferdinand Leitner (1912), Joseph Keilberth (1908), Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt (1900), and Michael Gielen (1927).

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