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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 102,598 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Karel Ančerl is the 51st most popular conductor (down from 46th in 2019), the 328th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 299th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Czech Conductor.

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Among CONDUCTORS

Among conductors, Karel Ančerl ranks 51 out of 97Before him are Semyon Bychkov, Lovro von Matačić, Felix Mottl, Yuri Temirkanov, Pierre Monteux, and Kurt Sanderling. After him are Victor de Sabata, Yevgeny Svetlanov, Marek Janowski, Günter Wand, Thomas Beecham, and Karl Muck.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Karel Ančerl ranks 141Before him are Yevgeny Vuchetich, William Hartnell, Gisèle Freund, Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark, Petro Shelest, and Bjarni Benediktsson. After him are Son Ngoc Thanh, Anna Sten, Elek Schwartz, Maria Prymachenko, Fritz Fischer, and Vaikom Muhammad Basheer. Among people deceased in 1973, Karel Ančerl ranks 113Before him are Mirra Alfassa, Laurens Hammond, Alexander Mosolov, Dean Corll, Alexander Vandegrift, and Joseph Szigeti. After him are Salchak Toka, Fuad Chehab, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Johannes Aavik, Carlo Emilio Gadda, and Paul van Zeeland.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Karel Ančerl ranks 328 out of 973Before him are Bretislav III (1200), Anne of Bohemia (1290), Leo Fall (1873), Wenceslaus II, Duke of Bohemia (1137), Zdislava Berka (1215), and Petr Chelčický (1390). After him are Franz Krommer (1759), Count Gustav Kálnoky (1832), Gorazd (1879), Karel Havlíček Borovský (1821), Jan Železný (1966), and Julius Francis, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (1641).

Among CONDUCTORS In Czechia

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