CONDUCTOR

Hans Zender

1936 - 2019

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Johannes Wolfgang Zender (22 November 1936 – 22 October 2019) was a German conductor and composer. He was the chief conductor of several opera houses, and his compositions, many of them vocal music, have been performed at international festivals. As a conductor, he worked at the Theater Freiburg, Theater Bonn, Opernhaus Kiel and Hamburg State Opera, and led the radio orchestra Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hans Zender has received more than 86,366 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Hans Zender is the 104th most popular conductor (down from 87th in 2019), the 4,583rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,857th in 2019) and the 13th most popular German Conductor.

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  • 86k

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  • 47.99

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.15

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CONDUCTORS

Among conductors, Hans Zender ranks 104 out of 128. Before him are Grzegorz Fitelberg, Valery Khalilov, Gustavo Dudamel, Tomás Bretón, Milan Horvat, and Dennis Russell Davies. After him are Georg Schnéevoigt, Raymond Leppard, Kirill Petrenko, Martin Turnovský, Eri Klas, and Nikolai Golovanov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Hans Zender ranks 368. Before him are Med Hondo, Larry Cohen, John Shalikashvili, Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud, John P. Ryan, and James Lee Burke. After him are Georg Sterzinsky, Nikos Xilouris, James C. Scott, Anatoly Mikhaylov, Tamás Mendelényi, and Ong Teng Cheong. Among people deceased in 2019, Hans Zender ranks 323. Before him are Mirjam Pressler, Yao Lee, Barbara Hammer, Dinko Dermendzhiev, Sigvard Ericsson, and Bayram Şit. After him are Harley Race, Gianfranco Leoncini, Albert Razin, Dimitar Dobrev, Norma Croker, and Pedro Morales.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hans Zender ranks 4,583 out of 7,253. Before him are Serge Gnabry (1995), Walter Brack (1880), Bruno Frank (1887), Martin Chemnitz (1522), Konrad von Würzburg (1225), and Dora Doll (1922). After him are Günther Beckstein (1943), Theodor Loos (1883), Nina Hoss (1975), Arthur Rudolph (1906), Karl Julius Perleb (1794), and Peter Frenkel (1939).

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Among CONDUCTORS In Germany

Among conductors born in Germany, Hans Zender ranks 13. Before him are Günter Wand (1912), Karl Muck (1859), Joseph Keilberth (1908), Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt (1900), Michael Gielen (1927), and Ferdinand Leitner (1912). After him are Ludwig von Brenner (1833).

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