CONDUCTOR

Claudio Abbado

1933 - 2014

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Claudio Abbado (Italian pronunciation: [ˈklaudjo abˈbaːdo]; 26 June 1933 – 20 January 2014) was an Italian conductor who was one of the leading conductors of his generation. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Claudio Abbado has received more than 753,796 page views. His biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia. Claudio Abbado is the 2nd most popular conductor (up from 3rd in 2019), the 362nd most popular biography from Italy (up from 404th in 2019) and the most popular Italian Conductor.

Claudio Abbado is most famous for his work as a conductor. He is the founder and director of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and was the music director of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra from 1989 to 2002.

Memorability Metrics

  • 750k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 75.07

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 60

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.21

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CONDUCTORS

Among conductors, Claudio Abbado ranks 2 out of 128. Before him are Herbert von Karajan. After him are Arturo Toscanini, Daniel Barenboim, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Zubin Mehta, Sergiu Celibidache, Riccardo Muti, Seiji Ozawa, Lorin Maazel, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, and Karl Böhm.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Claudio Abbado ranks 12. Before him are Karl Lagerfeld, Montserrat Caballé, Yoko Ono, Lina Medina, Michael Caine, and Tinto Brass. After him are Jalal Talabani, James Brown, Just Fontaine, Corazon Aquino, Nina Simone, and Amartya Sen. Among people deceased in 2014, Claudio Abbado ranks 7. Before him are Ariel Sharon, Gabriel García Márquez, Alfredo Di Stéfano, Eusébio, Robin Williams, and Eduard Shevardnadze. After him are Luis Aragonés, Joe Cocker, Wojciech Jaruzelski, Eli Wallach, Gough Whitlam, and Hiroo Onoda.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Claudio Abbado ranks 362 out of 5,161. Before him are Pope Alexander IV (1200), Publius Quinctilius Varus (-46), Pope Sixtus I (42), Roger II of Sicily (1095), Primo Levi (1919), and Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies (1751). After him are Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia (1499), Antonio Canova (1757), Pope Gregory IV (790), Pope Victor III (1027), Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718), and Pope Sergius II (800).

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Among CONDUCTORS In Italy

Among conductors born in Italy, Claudio Abbado ranks 1. After him are Arturo Toscanini (1867), Riccardo Muti (1941), Carlo Maria Giulini (1914), Giuseppe Sinopoli (1946), Riccardo Chailly (1953), Victor de Sabata (1892), Claudio Scimone (1934), Daniele Gatti (1961), and Fabio Luisi (1959).

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