CONDUCTOR

Leo Borchard

1899 - 1945

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Lew Ljewitsch "Leo" Borchard (31 March 1899 – 23 August 1945) was a German-Russian conductor and briefly musical director of the Berlin Philharmonic. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leo Borchard has received more than 48,134 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Leo Borchard is the 52nd most popular conductor (up from 77th in 2019), the 1,001st most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,314th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Russian Conductor.

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Among CONDUCTORS

Among conductors, Leo Borchard ranks 52 out of 128Before him are Thomas Beecham, Colin Davis, Semyon Bychkov, José Antonio Abreu, Karel Ančerl, and Günter Wand. After him are Victor de Sabata, Kurt Sanderling, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Yevgeny Svetlanov, Stanisław Skrowaczewski, and Marek Janowski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Leo Borchard ranks 124Before him are Hermann von Oppeln-Bronikowski, Sherm Clark, Noël Coward, Alexander Tcherepnin, Pierre Victor Auger, and Justas Paleckis. After him are Semyon Krivoshein, Francis Ponge, Georg Leibbrandt, Zhang Daqian, Qu Qiubai, and Peter Wessel Zapffe. Among people deceased in 1945, Leo Borchard ranks 193Before him are Petar Bojović, Gustav Cassel, Prince Frederick of Schaumburg-Lippe, Princess Thyra of Denmark, Maria Skobtsova, and Gerhard Gentzen. After him are Jüri Uluots, Antal Szerb, Johannes Popitz, Jerome Kern, Rash Behari Bose, and Adolf Bertram.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Leo Borchard ranks 1,001 out of 3,761Before him are Alexander Vasiliev (1867), Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov (1943), Oleg Yefremov (1927), Yury Yakovlev (1928), Vladimir Obruchev (1863), and Yevgeny Khrunov (1933). After him are Vasily of Kostroma (1241), Pavel Kiselyov (1788), Semyon Krivoshein (1899), Konstantin of Rostov (1185), Alexander Miasnikian (1886), and Vladimir Stasov (1824).

Among CONDUCTORS In Russia

Among conductors born in Russia, Leo Borchard ranks 4Before him are Yuri Temirkanov (1938), Serge Koussevitzky (1874), and Semyon Bychkov (1952). After him are Yevgeny Svetlanov (1928), Armas Järnefelt (1869), Vasily Agapkin (1884), Georg Schnéevoigt (1872), Kirill Petrenko (1972), Nikolai Golovanov (1891), Albert Coates (1882), and Tugan Sokhiev (1977).