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CONDUCTOR

Karl Böhm

1894 - 1981

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Karl August Leopold Böhm (28 August 1894 – 14 August 1981) was an Austrian conductor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karl Böhm has received more than 281,454 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Karl Böhm is the 11th most popular conductor, the 193rd most popular biography from Austria (up from 200th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Austrian Conductor.

Karl Böhm is most famous for being a conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.

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  • 280k

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  • 63.12

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.25

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.06

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among CONDUCTORS

Among conductors, Karl Böhm ranks 11 out of 97Before him are Zubin Mehta, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Riccardo Muti, Lorin Maazel, Sergiu Celibidache, and Nikolaus Harnoncourt. After him are Bruno Walter, Georg Solti, Otto Klemperer, Herbert Blomstedt, Kurt Masur, and Rafael Kubelík.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Karl Böhm ranks 34Before him are Wilhelm Bittrich, Alexander Oparin, Kōnosuke Matsushita, Satyendra Nath Bose, Arthur Nebe, and Norman Rockwell. After him are Fyodor Tolbukhin, Otto Grotewohl, Heinrich Lübke, Paul Blobel, Josef von Sternberg, and Claude Cahun. Among people deceased in 1981, Karl Böhm ranks 27Before him are William Saroyan, Omar Bradley, A. J. Cronin, Samuel Barber, Georges Brassens, and Joseph Murphy. After him are Max Delbrück, Mehmet Shehu, Abel Gance, Mohammad-Ali Rajai, Miroslav Krleža, and David Wechsler.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Karl Böhm ranks 193 out of 1,237Before him are Maria Schell (1926), Anna of Tyrol (1585), Ludwig Minkus (1826), Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf (1852), Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg (1771), and Franz I, Prince of Liechtenstein (1853). After him are Archduke Charles Joseph of Austria (1745), Archduke Ernest of Austria (1553), Miep Gies (1909), Otto Neurath (1882), Ferdinand II of Portugal (1816), and Ingeborg Bachmann (1926).

Among CONDUCTORS In Austria

Among conductors born in Austria, Karl Böhm ranks 2Before him are Herbert von Karajan (1908). After him are Erich Kleiber (1890), Felix Mottl (1856), Franz Welser-Möst (1960), and Otmar Suitner (1922).