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István Kertész

1929 - 1973

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István Kertész (28 August 1929 – 16 April 1973) was a Hungarian orchestral and operatic conductor who throughout his brief career led many of the world's great orchestras, including the Cleveland, Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, Detroit, San Francisco and Minnesota Orchestras in the United States, as well as the London Symphony, Vienna Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic, and L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. His orchestral repertoire numbered over 450 works from all periods, and was matched by a repertoire of some sixty operas ranging from Mozart, Verdi, Puccini and Wagner to the more contemporary Prokofiev, Bartók, Britten, Kodály, Poulenc and Janáček. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of István Kertész has received more than 6,248 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). István Kertész is the 878th most popular composer (down from 794th in 2019), the 337th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 294th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Hungarian Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, István Kertész ranks 878 out of 1,216. Before him are Adolf Wiklund, Alexei Lvov, Salvatore Sciarrino, Giovanni Battista Bassani, Trevor Jones, and Felix Draeseke. After him are Paul Dessau, Vítězslava Kaprálová, Théodore Gouvy, Ludwig Thuille, Heinrich Albert, and Princess Amalie of Saxony.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, István Kertész ranks 232. Before him are Lyudmila Zykina, Luigi Taveri, June Squibb, Jamshid bin Abdullah of Zanzibar, Karl Koller, and Rhadi Ben Abdesselam. After him are Toshiko Akiyoshi, Patricia Routledge, Jean-Denis Bredin, Hong Song-nam, John Henry Holland, and Selim Hoss. Among people deceased in 1973, István Kertész ranks 137. Before him are Eleazar López Contreras, Jeannette Rankin, Abd al-Rahman al-Bazzaz, Elise Ottesen-Jensen, Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, and Frances Marion. After him are Nancy Mitford, Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu, Aleksandr Ptushko, Mikhail Isakovsky, Ira Sprague Bowen, and Adolfo Zumelzú.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, István Kertész ranks 337 out of 866. Before him are Imre Frivaldszky (1799), Tibor Déry (1894), Lippo Hertzka (1904), Gyula Breyer (1893), Lili Kraus (1903), and Frigyes Riesz (1880). After him are Andrew G. Vajna (1944), József Rippl-Rónai (1861), Eugen Varga (1879), Milán Füst (1888), Otto Ferdinand von Abensperg und Traun (1677), and Ferenc Kölcsey (1790).

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Among COMPOSERS In Hungary

Among composers born in Hungary, István Kertész ranks 14. Before him are Ferenc Erkel (1810), Princess Maria Antonia Koháry (1797), Dora Pejačević (1885), Joseph Szigeti (1892), Leó Weiner (1885), and Ferenc Farkas (1905). After him are Sigmund Romberg (1887).

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