MUSICIAN

Fritz Busch

1890 - 1951

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Fritz Busch (13 March 1890 – 14 September 1951) was a German conductor. Busch was born in Siegen to a musical family and studied at the Cologne Conservatory. After army service in the First World War, he was appointed to senior posts in two German opera houses. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fritz Busch has received more than 73,570 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Fritz Busch is the 738th most popular musician (down from 682nd in 2019), the 3,101st most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,791st in 2019) and the 42nd most popular German Musician.

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Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Fritz Busch ranks 738 out of 3,175Before him are Tim Buckley, Steve Jones, Jørgen Ingmann, Julian Fontana, David Garrett, and Kerry King. After him are Johann Kaspar Mertz, Bix Beiderbecke, Jim Hall, McCoy Tyner, Karol Mikuli, and Eric Singer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Fritz Busch ranks 119Before him are Mauno Pekkala, Vasili Eroshenko, Erik Heinrichs, Michał Rola-Żymierski, Ahmad Kasravi, and Princess Dagmar of Denmark. After him are Elizabeth Bolden, André-Louis Danjon, Henny Porten, Dion Fortune, Walter Hasenclever, and Elia Abu Madi. Among people deceased in 1951, Fritz Busch ranks 88Before him are Gonzalo Queipo de Llano, Paula von Preradović, István Friedrich, Bernhard Kellermann, Vilhelm Bjerknes, and Edgar Rubin. After him are Fumiko Hayashi, Pedro Salinas, Robert Broom, José Enrique Varela, Selim Palmgren, and André Gobert.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Fritz Busch ranks 3,101 out of 7,253Before him are Cornelia Froboess (1943), Max von Oppenheim (1860), Princess Adelheid of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym (1800), Ernst Ziller (1837), David Garrett (1980), and Mehmet Scholl (1970). After him are Magdalena Sibylla of Hesse-Darmstadt (1652), Amalie of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld (1752), John Casimir, Duke of Saxe-Coburg (1564), Ferdinand Albert I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern (1636), Hans Herrmann (1928), and Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst (1743).

Among MUSICIANS In Germany

Among musicians born in Germany, Fritz Busch ranks 42Before him are Peter Schreier (1935), Harold Faltermeyer (1952), Robert Hausmann (1852), Menahem Pressler (1923), Conrad Graf (1782), and David Garrett (1980). After him are Christian Ferdinand Abel (1682), Theo Jörgensmann (1948), Klaus Tennstedt (1926), Paul van Dyk (1971), Andi Deris (1964), and Herbert Grönemeyer (1956).