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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 82,001 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Günter Wand is the 55th most popular conductor, the 2,814th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,766th in 2019) and the 7th most popular German Conductor.

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Among CONDUCTORS

Among conductors, Günter Wand ranks 55 out of 97Before him are Pierre Monteux, Kurt Sanderling, Karel Ančerl, Victor de Sabata, Yevgeny Svetlanov, and Marek Janowski. After him are Thomas Beecham, Karl Muck, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Iván Fischer, Ferdinand Leitner, and Stanisław Skrowaczewski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Günter Wand ranks 146Before him are Kamala Sohonie, John Cheever, Georges Franju, Lev Kopelev, Vladimir Bakarić, and Hamengkubuwono IX. After him are Andre Norton, Eve Arnold, Nie Er, Alfred Schwarzmann, Rudolf Vytlačil, and Palle Huld. Among people deceased in 2002, Günter Wand ranks 121Before him are Daniel Gélin, Dudley Moore, Mamo Wolde, Yevgeny Svetlanov, Inge Morath, and Branko Stanković. After him are Grote Reber, John Thaw, Robert Guéï, Marion Dönhoff, Domènec Balmanya, and Gabriel Almond.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Günter Wand ranks 2,814 out of 6,142Before him are John, Margrave of Brandenburg-Küstrin (1513), Charlotte von Stein (1742), Adolf Bertram (1859), Heinrich Scheidemann (1596), Amalie of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld (1752), and Horst-Dieter Höttges (1943). After him are Egon Bahr (1922), Adolf Schmal (1872), Adolf II, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe (1883), Matthias Claudius (1740), Sophie, Princess of Albania (1885), and Jens Böhrnsen (1949).

Among CONDUCTORS In Germany

Among conductors born in Germany, Günter Wand ranks 7Before 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), Ferdinand Leitner (1912), Joseph Keilberth (1908), Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt (1900), Michael Gielen (1927), and Hans Zender (1936).