CONDUCTOR

Karel Ančerl

1908 - 1973

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Karel Ančerl (11 April 1908 – 3 July 1973) was a Czechoslovak conductor and composer, renowned especially for his performances of contemporary music and for his interpretations of music by Czech composers. Ančerl was born into a prosperous Jewish family in the village of Tučapy in southern Bohemia. After graduating from the Prague Conservatory, he pursued his conducting studies under Hermann Scherchen and Václav Talich. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karel Ančerl has received more than 117,819 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Karel Ančerl is the 50th most popular conductor (up from 51st in 2019), the 334th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 328th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Czech Conductor.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Among CONDUCTORS

Among conductors, Karel Ančerl ranks 50 out of 128. Before him are Lovro von Matačić, Antal Doráti, Thomas Beecham, Colin Davis, Semyon Bychkov, and José Antonio Abreu. After him are Günter Wand, Leo Borchard, Victor de Sabata, Kurt Sanderling, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Yevgeny Svetlanov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Karel Ančerl ranks 150. Before him are Paul Henreid, Henryk Zygalski, Elio Vittorini, John Tuzo Wilson, Michel Marcel Navratil, and Robert Morley. After him are Sœur Emmanuelle, Paula Mollenhauer, John Mills, Elek Schwartz, Juan Botasso, and Bengt Strömgren. Among people deceased in 1973, Karel Ančerl ranks 117. Before him are Paul van Zeeland, Carlo Emilio Gadda, Noël Coward, Joseph Szigeti, Salchak Toka, and Mirra Alfassa. After him are Robert Watson-Watt, Henry Darger, Johannes Aavik, Âşık Veysel, Grigori Kozintsev, and Vilhelm Moberg.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Karel Ančerl ranks 334 out of 1,200. Before him are Gabriel von Max (1840), Prince Frederick of Schaumburg-Lippe (1868), Antonio Rosetti (1746), Georg Joseph Kamel (1661), Zdislava Berka (1215), and Melchior Grodziecki (1584). After him are František Brixi (1732), Jan Mukařovský (1891), Jana Brejchová (1940), Paul Wranitzky (1756), Josef Škvorecký (1924), and Vlastimil Brodský (1920).

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Among CONDUCTORS In Czechia

Among conductors born in Czechia, Karel Ančerl ranks 3. Before him are Rafael Kubelík (1914), and Václav Neumann (1920). After him are Jiří Bělohlávek (1946), Zdeněk Mácal (1936), and Martin Turnovský (1928).

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