CONDUCTOR

Georg Solti

1912 - 1997

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Sir Georg Solti ( JORJ SHOL-tee, Hungarian: [ˈʃolti]; born György Stern; 21 October 1912 – 5 September 1997) was a Hungarian-British orchestral and operatic conductor, known for his appearances with opera companies in Munich, Frankfurt, and London, and as a long-serving music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Born in Budapest, he studied there with Béla Bartók, Leó Weiner, and Ernő Dohnányi. In the 1930s, he was a répétiteur at the Hungarian State Opera and worked at the Salzburg Festival for Arturo Toscanini. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Georg Solti has received more than 1,609,671 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Georg Solti is the 16th most popular conductor (down from 13th in 2019), the 137th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 94th in 2019) and the most popular Hungarian Conductor.

Georg Solti is most famous for being the conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 1969-1991. He is also most famous for his work with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Salzburg Festival.

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  • 40

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  • 4.65

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  • 3.92

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Among CONDUCTORS

Among conductors, Georg Solti ranks 16 out of 128. Before him are Lorin Maazel, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Karl Böhm, Bruno Walter, Dimitri Mitropoulos, and Otto Klemperer. After him are Herbert Blomstedt, Rafael Kubelík, Kurt Masur, Carlo Maria Giulini, Felix Weingartner, and Erich Kleiber.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Georg Solti ranks 65. Before him are Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, Ertuğrul Osman, Salvador Luria, Hermann Graf, Rodolfo Gucci, and Herbert C. Brown. After him are Petar Stambolić, Pat Nixon, A. E. van Vogt, Ivan Yakubovsky, György Sárosi, and Shoichi Nishimura. Among people deceased in 1997, Georg Solti ranks 60. Before him are Bulat Okudzhava, Friedrich Hund, Stéphane Grappelli, Masaru Ibuka, Colonel Tom Parker, and Roland Topor. After him are Gerda Christian, Narciso Yepes, Yuri Nikulin, Marco Ferreri, Barbara, and Son Sen.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Georg Solti ranks 137 out of 1,077. Before him are Miklós Rózsa (1907), Max Nordau (1849), André Kertész (1894), Peter Delyan (1009), Imi Lichtenfeld (1910), and Gusztáv Sebes (1906). After him are Mária Telkes (1900), Katalin Novák (1977), Arthur Nikisch (1855), Ferenc Deák (1803), Béla Tarr (1955), and Michael Polanyi (1891).

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Among CONDUCTORS In Hungary

Among conductors born in Hungary, Georg Solti ranks 1. After him are Fritz Reiner (1888), George Szell (1897), Antal Doráti (1906), Iván Fischer (1951), and Ádám Fischer (1949).

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