CONDUCTOR

John Barbirolli

1899 - 1970

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Sir John Barbirolli (né Giovanni Battista Barbirolli; 2 December 1899 – 29 July 1970) was a British conductor and cellist. He is remembered above all as conductor of the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester, which he helped save from dissolution in 1943 and conducted for the rest of his life. Earlier in his career he was Arturo Toscanini's successor as music director of the New York Philharmonic, serving from 1936 to 1943. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Barbirolli has received more than 284,714 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. John Barbirolli is the 43rd most popular conductor (down from 38th in 2019), the 1,694th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,567th in 2019) and the 4th most popular British Conductor.

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  • 280k

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  • 55.20

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.43

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CONDUCTORS

Among conductors, John Barbirolli ranks 43 out of 128. Before him are Simon Rattle, John Philip Sousa, Serge Koussevitzky, Pierre Monteux, Charles Munch, and Riccardo Chailly. After him are Lovro von Matačić, Antal Doráti, Thomas Beecham, Colin Davis, Semyon Bychkov, and José Antonio Abreu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, John Barbirolli ranks 113. Before him are Walter Lantz, Ramon Novarro, Zaki al-Arsuzi, Eugene Ormandy, Café Filho, and Domingo Tejera. After him are Soraya Tarzi, Pancho Vladigerov, Lovro von Matačić, Princess Nadezhda of Bulgaria, Hermann von Oppeln-Bronikowski, and Sherm Clark. Among people deceased in 1970, John Barbirolli ranks 101. Before him are Abraham Zapruder, Jacques Pills, Amadeo Bordiga, Agustín Lara, René Schneider, and Café Filho. After him are Folco Lulli, Prince Adalbert of Bavaria, Leah Goldberg, Friedrich Pollock, Alfred Newman, and Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Barbirolli ranks 1,694 out of 8,785. Before him are Robert Brown (1921), Christina Rossetti (1830), Elizabeth de Burgh (1289), Evelyn Beatrice Hall (1868), Robert Blake (1599), and Charles Hatchett (1765). After him are William Renshaw (1861), Robert Pattinson (1986), Mitch Mitchell (1947), Paddy Roy Bates (1921), Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire (1477), and Lorna Wing (1928).

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Among CONDUCTORS In United Kingdom

Among conductors born in United Kingdom, John Barbirolli ranks 4. Before him are Leopold Stokowski (1882), John Eliot Gardiner (1943), and Simon Rattle (1955). After him are Thomas Beecham (1879), Colin Davis (1927), Eugene Aynsley Goossens (1893), Jeffrey Tate (1943), Adrian Boult (1889), Antonio Pappano (1959), Henry Wood (1869), and Raymond Leppard (1927).

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