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Erich Kleiber

1890 - 1956

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Erich Kleiber (5 August 1890 – 27 January 1956) was an Austrian, later Argentine, conductor, known for his interpretations of the classics and as an advocate of Neue Musik. Kleiber was born in Vienna, and after studying at the Prague Conservatory, he followed the traditional route for an aspiring conductor in German-speaking countries of the time, starting as a répétiteur in an opera house and moving into conducting in increasingly senior positions. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Erich Kleiber has received more than 118,154 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Erich Kleiber is the 19th most popular conductor (up from 20th in 2019), the 348th most popular biography from Austria (down from 326th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Austrian Conductor.

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  • 120k

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  • 58.37

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.37

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among CONDUCTORS

Among conductors, Erich Kleiber ranks 19 out of 97Before him are Georg Solti, Otto Klemperer, Herbert Blomstedt, Kurt Masur, Rafael Kubelík, and Dimitri Mitropoulos. After him are Seiji Ozawa, Carlo Maria Giulini, Leopold Stokowski, Felix Weingartner, Hans Knappertsbusch, and Eugen Jochum.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Erich Kleiber ranks 58Before him are Jaroslav Heyrovský, Frank Martin, Victor Serge, Kurt Tucholsky, Moša Pijade, and Grigory Mikhaylovich Semyonov. After him are Norman Bethune, Augusta Victoria of Hohenzollern, Alfredo Ottaviani, Vannevar Bush, Milunka Savić, and Géza Lakatos. Among people deceased in 1956, Erich Kleiber ranks 47Before him are Jan Łukasiewicz, Gottfried Benn, Savielly Tartakower, Art Tatum, Mahmud Barzanji, and Hiram Bingham III. After him are Otto Schmidt, Josep Puig i Cadafalch, Alben W. Barkley, Thomas J. Watson, Pío Baroja, and Walter Sydney Adams.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Erich Kleiber ranks 348 out of 1,237Before him are Maria Christina, Princess of Transylvania (1574), Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche (1909), René Spitz (1887), Martin Karplus (1930), Carl Auer von Welsbach (1858), and Archduchess Margarete Sophie of Austria (1870). After him are Eva Schloss (1929), Otto Gross (1877), André Gorz (1923), Margaret of Austria, Queen of Bohemia (1204), Emilie Louise Flöge (1874), and Leopold Berchtold (1863).

Among CONDUCTORS In Austria

Among conductors born in Austria, Erich Kleiber ranks 3Before him are Herbert von Karajan (1908) and Karl Böhm (1894). After him are Felix Mottl (1856), Franz Welser-Möst (1960), and Otmar Suitner (1922).