CONDUCTOR

Günter Wand

1912 - 2002

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Günter Wand (7 January 1912, in Elberfeld, Germany – 14 February 2002, in Ulmiz near Bern, Switzerland) was a German orchestra conductor and composer. Wand studied in Wuppertal, Allenstein and Detmold. At the Cologne Conservatory, he was a composition student with Philipp Jarnach and a piano student with Paul Baumgartner. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Günter Wand has received more than 88,388 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Günter Wand is the 51st most popular conductor (up from 55th in 2019), the 2,851st most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,811th in 2019) and the 7th most popular German Conductor.

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  • 53.79

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.58

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CONDUCTORS

Among conductors, Günter Wand ranks 51 out of 128. Before him are Antal Doráti, Thomas Beecham, Colin Davis, Semyon Bychkov, José Antonio Abreu, and Karel Ančerl. After him are Leo Borchard, Victor de Sabata, Kurt Sanderling, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Yevgeny Svetlanov, and Stanisław Skrowaczewski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Günter Wand ranks 150. Before him are Hamengkubuwono IX, Henry Armstrong, Ichiji Otani, Melita Norwood, John Cheever, and Béla Király. After him are Jacques Bergier, Lev Kopelev, Naoto Tajima, Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, Pierre Grimal, and Andre Norton. Among people deceased in 2002, Günter Wand ranks 119. Before him are Zaid ibn Shaker, Herb Ritts, Dudley Moore, David Riesman, Michel Henry, and Daniel Gélin. After him are Eusebio Tejera, Wolfgang Preiss, Mamo Wolde, Vlastimil Brodský, Nguyễn Văn Thuận, and Rosemary Clooney.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Günter Wand ranks 2,851 out of 7,253. Before him are Anton Walter (1752), Carl Tanzler (1877), Adolph Kolping (1813), Gustav-Adolf von Zangen (1892), Anne Buydens (1919), and Anton Flettner (1885). After him are Peter Schreier (1935), Julius Oppert (1825), Paul Augustin Mayer (1911), Anton Ulrich, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (1687), Elisabeth of Bavaria, Electress of Saxony (1443), and Johann Krieger (1651).

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Among CONDUCTORS In Germany

Among conductors born in Germany, Günter Wand ranks 7. Before him are Wilhelm Furtwängler (1886), Nikolaus Harnoncourt (1929), Bruno Walter (1876), Hans Knappertsbusch (1888), Eugen Jochum (1902), and Franz Danzi (1763). After him are Karl Muck (1859), Joseph Keilberth (1908), Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt (1900), Michael Gielen (1927), Ferdinand Leitner (1912), and Hans Zender (1936).

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