CONDUCTOR

Eugen Jochum

1902 - 1987

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Eugen Jochum (German: [ˈɔʏɡeːn ˈjɔxʊm, ˈɔʏɡn̩ -]; 1 November 1902 – 26 March 1987) was a German conductor, best known for his interpretations of the music of Anton Bruckner, Carl Orff, and Johannes Brahms, among others. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eugen Jochum has received more than 131,896 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Eugen Jochum is the 25th most popular conductor, the 1,645th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,611th in 2019) and the 5th most popular German Conductor.

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Among CONDUCTORS

Among conductors, Eugen Jochum ranks 25 out of 128. Before him are Kurt Masur, Carlo Maria Giulini, Felix Weingartner, Erich Kleiber, Leopold Stokowski, and Hans Knappertsbusch. After him are Giuseppe Sinopoli, Yuri Temirkanov, Fritz Reiner, Franz Danzi, James Levine, and George Szell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Eugen Jochum ranks 74. Before him are Takeichi Nishi, Bruno Streckenbach, Ion Gheorghe Maurer, Demchugdongrub, Markian Popov, and Maximilian, Duke of Hohenberg. After him are Richard Rodgers, Wifredo Lam, Langston Hughes, Lyubov Orlova, Charan Singh, and Alfredo Binda. Among people deceased in 1987, Eugen Jochum ranks 52. Before him are William Stuart-Houston, Anthony de Mello, Kishore Kumar, Bob Fosse, Rouben Mamoulian, and Camille Chamoun. After him are Alistair MacLean, Seyni Kountché, Yakov Zeldovich, Gordon Gollob, Charan Singh, and Federico Mompou.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Eugen Jochum ranks 1,645 out of 7,253. Before him are Johann Bernhard Basedow (1723), Prince Frederick of the Netherlands (1797), Florian Schneider (1947), Friedrich Parrot (1791), Axel Springer (1912), and Ludwig Büchner (1824). After him are Prince Oskar of Prussia (1888), Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock (1911), August Ludwig von Schlözer (1735), Felix Nussbaum (1904), Conrad Celtes (1459), and Margravine Hedwig Sophie of Brandenburg (1623).

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Among CONDUCTORS In Germany

Among conductors born in Germany, Eugen Jochum ranks 5. Before him are Wilhelm Furtwängler (1886), Nikolaus Harnoncourt (1929), Bruno Walter (1876), and Hans Knappertsbusch (1888). After him are 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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