CONDUCTOR

Leopold Stokowski

1882 - 1977

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Leopold Anthony Stokowski (18 April 1882 – 13 September 1977) was a British-born American conductor. One of the leading conductors of the early and mid-20th century, he is best known for his long association with the Philadelphia Orchestra. He was especially noted for his free-hand conducting style that spurned the traditional baton and for obtaining a characteristically sumptuous sound from the orchestras he directed.Stokowski was music director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the NBC Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the Houston Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony of the Air and many others. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leopold Stokowski has received more than 1,928,687 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia. Leopold Stokowski is the 23rd most popular conductor (down from 22nd in 2019), the 1,126th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,152nd in 2019) and the most popular British Conductor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.9M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.64

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.17

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.01

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Leopold Stokowskis by language

Over the past year Leopold Stokowski has had the most page views in the with 191,209 views, followed by Spanish (17,651), and Japanese (16,191). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Breton (79.35%), Latin (73.79%), and Egyptian Arabic (65.68%)

Among CONDUCTORS

Among conductors, Leopold Stokowski ranks 23 out of 128. Before him are Herbert Blomstedt, Rafael Kubelík, Kurt Masur, Carlo Maria Giulini, Felix Weingartner, and Erich Kleiber. After him are Hans Knappertsbusch, Eugen Jochum, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Yuri Temirkanov, Fritz Reiner, and Franz Danzi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Leopold Stokowski ranks 75. Before him are Lucien Petit-Breton, Eduard Spranger, Korney Chukovsky, Husband E. Kimmel, Germaine Dulac, and Joaquín Turina. After him are Harold Lowe, Natalia Sedova, Feng Yuxiang, Ernst von Weizsäcker, August Kopff, and Yoshijirō Umezu. Among people deceased in 1977, Leopold Stokowski ranks 50. Before him are Modibo Keïta, Kamal Jumblatt, Lee Miller, Sepp Herberger, Stephen Boyd, and Jan Patočka. After him are Princess Margaretha of Sweden, Bruno Streckenbach, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Paul Desmond, Hamida Djandoubi, and Marc Bolan.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Leopold Stokowski ranks 1,126 out of 8,785. Before him are Samuel Bellamy (1689), Bob Paisley (1919), Johannes de Sacrobosco (1195), Taron Egerton (1989), Elizabeth Siddal (1829), and Flinders Petrie (1853). After him are John Schlesinger (1926), Alexander II of Scotland (1198), John Pople (1925), Idris Elba (1972), Harold Lowe (1882), and Vita Sackville-West (1892).

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Among CONDUCTORS In United Kingdom

Among conductors born in United Kingdom, Leopold Stokowski ranks 1. After him are John Eliot Gardiner (1943), Simon Rattle (1955), John Barbirolli (1899), Thomas Beecham (1879), Colin Davis (1927), Eugene Aynsley Goossens (1893), Jeffrey Tate (1943), Adrian Boult (1889), Antonio Pappano (1959), Henry Wood (1869), and Raymond Leppard (1927).

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