CONDUCTOR

Lorin Maazel

1930 - 2014

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Lorin Varencove Maazel (, March 6, 1930 – July 13, 2014) was an American conductor, violinist and composer. He began conducting at the age of eight and by 1953 had decided to pursue a career in music. He had established a reputation in the concert halls of Europe by 1960 but, by comparison, his career in the U.S. progressed far more slowly. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lorin Maazel has received more than 380,522 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Lorin Maazel is the 10th most popular conductor (down from 8th in 2019), the 844th most popular biography from France (down from 790th in 2019) and the most popular French Conductor.

Lorin Maazel is most famous for his work as a conductor. He has conducted orchestras all over the world, and was the music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra from 1988 to 2004.

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  • 380k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 64.16

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.83

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CONDUCTORS

Among conductors, Lorin Maazel ranks 10 out of 128. Before him are Daniel Barenboim, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Zubin Mehta, Sergiu Celibidache, Riccardo Muti, and Seiji Ozawa. After him are Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Karl Böhm, Bruno Walter, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Otto Klemperer, and Georg Solti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Lorin Maazel ranks 47. Before him are Gary Becker, Bernie Ecclestone, Biljana Plavšić, Akira Suzuki, Derek Walcott, and Félix Guattari. After him are Robert Wagner, Jean Rochefort, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Carlos Kleiber, Jerome Isaac Friedman, and Leon Cooper. Among people deceased in 2014, Lorin Maazel ranks 32. Before him are H. R. Giger, Harold Ramis, Richard Kiel, Gary Becker, Martin Lewis Perl, and Adolfo Suárez. After him are Jack Brabham, Masaru Emoto, Maya Angelou, Daniel Keyes, Dobrica Ćosić, and Mickey Rooney.

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In France

Among people born in France, Lorin Maazel ranks 844 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755), Célestin Freinet (1896), Jean-Pierre Léaud (1944), Alain Aspect (1947), Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné (1626), and Henri Fantin-Latour (1836). After him are Georges Couthon (1755), Pierre Lescot (1515), Paul Reynaud (1878), Jacques Anquetil (1934), Dora Maar (1907), and Bertrada of Laon (720).

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Among CONDUCTORS In France

Among conductors born in France, Lorin Maazel ranks 1. After him are Pierre Monteux (1875), Charles Munch (1891), Jean Martinon (1910), and Paul Paray (1886).

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