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Herbert Blomstedt

1927 - Today

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Herbert Thorson Blomstedt (Swedish: [ˈhæ̌rːbɛʈ ˈblʊ̌mːstɛt]; born 11 July 1927) is a Swedish conductor. Herbert Blomstedt was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, the son of Adolf Blomstedt (1898–1981) and his wife Alida Armintha Thorson (1899–1957). Two years after his birth, his Swedish parents moved the family back to their country of origin. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Herbert Blomstedt has received more than 270,677 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Herbert Blomstedt is the 15th most popular conductor (up from 17th in 2019), the 1,395th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,383rd in 2019) and the most popular American Conductor.

Herbert Blomstedt is most famous for his work with the Berlin Philharmonic, where he served as conductor from 1955 to 1989.

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Among CONDUCTORS

Among conductors, Herbert Blomstedt ranks 15 out of 97. Before him are Sergiu Celibidache, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Karl Böhm, Bruno Walter, Georg Solti, and Otto Klemperer. After him are Kurt Masur, Rafael Kubelík, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Erich Kleiber, Seiji Ozawa, and Carlo Maria Giulini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Herbert Blomstedt ranks 67. Before him are Leszek Kołakowski, Romano Mussolini, F. Sherwood Rowland, Abdul Halim of Kedah, Tadeusz Mazowiecki, and Margot Honecker. After him are Hiroshi Yamauchi, Vernon L. Smith, Narciso Yepes, Kurt Masur, Marvin Minsky, and Steve Ditko.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Herbert Blomstedt ranks 1,395 out of 18,182. Before him are John Sturges (1910), Wes Anderson (1969), Richard Winters (1918), David Morse (1953), Ken Thompson (1943), and Alan Greenspan (1926). After him are Walter Chrysler (1875), Bob Saget (1956), Cecil B. DeMille (1881), Rose Kennedy (1890), Carroll Baker (1931), and Jean M. Auel (1936).

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Among CONDUCTORS In United States

Among conductors born in United States, Herbert Blomstedt ranks 1. After him are John Philip Sousa (1854), James Levine (1943), Kent Nagano (1951), Charles Mackerras (1925), Dennis Russell Davies (1944), Arthur Fiedler (1894), and Alan Gilbert (1967).

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