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Hermann Scherchen

1891 - 1966

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Hermann Scherchen (21 June 1891 – 12 June 1966) was a German conductor, who was principal conductor of the city orchestra of Winterthur from 1922 to 1950. He promoted contemporary music, beginning with Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire, followed by works by Richard Strauss, Anton Webern, Alban Berg, Edgard Varèse, later Iannis Xenakis, Luigi Nono and Leon Schidlowsky. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hermann Scherchen has received more than 86,186 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Hermann Scherchen is the 584th most popular composer (up from 604th in 2019), the 2,327th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,314th in 2019) and the 93rd most popular German Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Hermann Scherchen ranks 584 out of 1,451. Before him are Julius Benedict, Tielman Susato, Albert Ketèlbey, Jean-Joseph de Mondonville, Pasquale Anfossi, and Paul Lincke. After him are Veljo Tormis, Malcolm Arnold, Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, Johann Ludwig Krebs, Leo Brouwer, and Johann David Heinichen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Hermann Scherchen ranks 86. Before him are Yvan Goll, Kálmán Kalocsay, Charles Munch, Kim Seong-su, Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, and Seth Barnes Nicholson. After him are Emiliano Mercado del Toro, Antoine Pinay, Hans Albers, Ivan Vinogradov, George Adamski, and Laura Vicuña. Among people deceased in 1966, Hermann Scherchen ranks 76. Before him are Bud Powell, Vladimir Minorsky, Victor Brauner, Caterina Albert, Wilhelm Röpke, and Maximiliano Hernández Martínez. After him are Venceslau Brás, Väinö Tanner, Wieland Wagner, Camilo Torres Restrepo, Emil Brunner, and Philipp Frank.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hermann Scherchen ranks 2,327 out of 7,253. Before him are Friedrich Loeffler (1852), Paul Lincke (1866), Louis III, Elector Palatine (1378), Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg (1763), Walter Brandmüller (1929), and Carl Reichenbach (1788). After him are Hans von Obstfelder (1886), Louis X, Duke of Bavaria (1495), Dietmar Hopp (1940), Johann Christoph Denner (1655), Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch (1736), and Harro Schulze-Boysen (1909).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Hermann Scherchen ranks 93. Before him are Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918), Hermann Levi (1839), Georg Joseph Vogler (1749), Julius Benedict (1804), Tielman Susato (1500), and Paul Lincke (1866). After him are Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch (1736), Johann Ludwig Krebs (1713), Johann David Heinichen (1683), Reinhard Keiser (1674), Helmut Lachenmann (1935), and Johann Nikolaus Forkel (1749).

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