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Kurt Masur

1927 - 2015

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Kurt Masur (18 July 1927 – 19 December 2015) was a German conductor. Called "one of the last old-style maestros", he directed many of the principal orchestras of his era. He had a long career as the Kapellmeister of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, and also served as music director of the New York Philharmonic. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kurt Masur has received more than 584,992 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Kurt Masur is the 16th most popular conductor (up from 18th in 2019), the 250th most popular biography from Poland (down from 249th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Polish Conductor.

Kurt Masur is most famous for his work as the conductor of the New York Philharmonic and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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Among CONDUCTORS

Among conductors, Kurt Masur ranks 16 out of 97. Before him are Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Karl Böhm, Bruno Walter, Georg Solti, Otto Klemperer, and Herbert Blomstedt. After him are Rafael Kubelík, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Erich Kleiber, Seiji Ozawa, Carlo Maria Giulini, and Leopold Stokowski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Kurt Masur ranks 71. Before him are Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Margot Honecker, Herbert Blomstedt, Hiroshi Yamauchi, Vernon L. Smith, and Narciso Yepes. After him are Marvin Minsky, Steve Ditko, Lucio Fulci, Jean-Claude Pascal, George C. Scott, and César Milstein. Among people deceased in 2015, Kurt Masur ranks 62. Before him are Mathieu Kérékou, Louis Jourdan, Yitzhak Navon, Boris Nemtsov, Assia Djebar, and Maureen O'Hara. After him are Alfred G. Gilman, Gabriele Ferzetti, Setsuko Hara, Richard F. Heck, Cynthia Lennon, and Geraldine McEwan.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Kurt Masur ranks 250 out of 1,454. Before him are Kurt Tank (1898), Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1687), Henryk Szeryng (1918), Victor Klemperer (1881), Anna von Schweidnitz (1339), and Aleksander Kwaśniewski (1954). After him are Karl Ludwig Hencke (1793), Wanda Landowska (1879), Leopold Trepper (1904), Zbigniew Boniek (1956), Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (1651), and Stanisława Walasiewicz (1911).

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Among CONDUCTORS In Poland

Among conductors born in Poland, Kurt Masur ranks 2. Before him are Otto Klemperer (1885). After him are Kurt Sanderling (1912), Marek Janowski (1939), and Paul Kletzki (1900).

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