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 301,868 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Karl Böhm is the 12th most popular conductor (down from 11th in 2019), the 203rd most popular biography from Austria (down from 193rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Austrian Conductor.

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

Memorability Metrics

  • 300k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 63.12

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.02

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.18

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CONDUCTORS

Among conductors, Karl Böhm ranks 12 out of 128. Before him are Zubin Mehta, Sergiu Celibidache, Riccardo Muti, Seiji Ozawa, Lorin Maazel, and Nikolaus Harnoncourt. After him are Bruno Walter, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Otto Klemperer, Georg Solti, Herbert Blomstedt, and Rafael Kubelík.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Karl Böhm ranks 35. Before him are Benjamin Graham, Kim Hyong-jik, Fyodor Tolbukhin, Arthur Nebe, Kōnosuke Matsushita, and Wilhelm Bittrich. After him are Nazli Sabri, Dashiell Hammett, Martha Graham, Alexander Dovzhenko, Josef von Sternberg, and Sergey Ilyushin. Among people deceased in 1981, Karl Böhm ranks 26. Before him are Harold Urey, Mohammad-Ali Rajai, Marcel Breuer, William Saroyan, Samuel Barber, and A. J. Cronin. After him are Miroslav Krleža, Georges Brassens, Max Delbrück, Abel Gance, Will Durant, and Joseph Murphy.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Karl Böhm ranks 203 out of 1,424. Before him are Archduke Charles Joseph of Austria (1745), Anna of Tyrol (1585), Leopold III, Margrave of Austria (1073), Jörg Haider (1950), Otto Neurath (1882), and Franz Grillparzer (1791). After him are Leopold I, Duke of Austria (1290), Archduke Ernest of Austria (1553), Ingeborg Bachmann (1926), Karl Thomas Mozart (1784), Joseph Joachim (1831), and Frederick II, Duke of Austria (1211).

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Among CONDUCTORS In Austria

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

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