CONDUCTOR

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. He studied at the Stockholm Royal College of Music and the University of Uppsala, followed by studies of contemporary music at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse in 1949, Baroque music with Paul Sacher at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, and further conducting studies with Igor Markevitch, Jean Morel at the Juilliard School, and Leonard Bernstein at Tanglewood's Berkshire Music Center. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Herbert Blomstedt has received more than 267,941 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Herbert Blomstedt is the 17th most popular conductor (down from 15th in 2019), the 1,496th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,395th 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.

Memorability Metrics

  • 270k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.00

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.28

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Herbert Blomstedts by language

Over the past year Herbert Blomstedt has had the most page views in the with 73,574 views, followed by English (36,754), and Japanese (27,403). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Catalan (1,156.10%), Hungarian (147.39%), and German (38.97%)

Among CONDUCTORS

Among conductors, Herbert Blomstedt ranks 17 out of 128. Before him are Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Karl Böhm, Bruno Walter, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Otto Klemperer, and Georg Solti. After him are Rafael Kubelík, Kurt Masur, Carlo Maria Giulini, Felix Weingartner, Erich Kleiber, and Leopold Stokowski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Herbert Blomstedt ranks 74. Before him are Abdul Halim of Kedah, Hélène Langevin-Joliot, Jacques Mayol, Jean-Claude Pascal, Claude Gensac, and Narciso Yepes. After him are César Milstein, Steve Ditko, Kurt Masur, George C. Scott, Lucio Fulci, and Günter Guillaume.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Herbert Blomstedt ranks 1,496 out of 20,380. Before him are Kelly Preston (1962), David McClelland (1917), Thomas J. Sargent (1943), Stonewall Jackson (1824), William Nordhaus (1941), and Erskine Caldwell (1903). After him are David Graf (1950), Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821), Merton Miller (1923), Kalākaua (1836), Macaulay Culkin (1980), and Patrick McGoohan (1928).

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Among CONDUCTORS In United States

Among conductors born in United States, Herbert Blomstedt ranks 1. After him are James Levine (1943), John Philip Sousa (1854), Kent Nagano (1951), Charles Mackerras (1925), Dennis Russell Davies (1944), Robert Craft (1923), Arthur Fiedler (1894), Alan Gilbert (1967), and Anton Coppola (1917).

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