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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 359,193 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia. Lorin Maazel is the 8th most popular conductor (up from 9th in 2019), the 792nd most popular biography from France (up from 865th 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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Among CONDUCTORS

Among conductors, Lorin Maazel ranks 8 out of 97Before him are Daniel Barenboim, Claudio Abbado, Arturo Toscanini, Zubin Mehta, Wilhelm Furtwängler, and Riccardo Muti. After him are Sergiu Celibidache, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Karl Böhm, Bruno Walter, Georg Solti, and Otto Klemperer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Lorin Maazel ranks 44Before him are Carlos Menem, Hugh Everett III, Félix Guattari, Leon Cooper, Edsger W. Dijkstra, and Tippi Hedren. After him are Ali al-Sistani, Carlos Kleiber, Yves Chauvin, Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, Gylmar dos Santos Neves, and Adunis. Among people deceased in 2014, Lorin Maazel ranks 34Before him are H. R. Giger, Adolfo Suárez, Martin Lewis Perl, Jack Brabham, Maya Angelou, and Masaru Emoto. After him are Bob Hoskins, Mickey Rooney, Robert A. Dahl, Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba, Karlheinz Böhm, and Daniel Keyes.

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In France

Among people born in France, Lorin Maazel ranks 792 out of 6,011Before him are Françoise Marie de Bourbon (1677), Bernart de Ventadorn (1135), Charlotte of Savoy (1441), Girard Desargues (1591), Antoine François Prévost (1697), and Pierre Boulle (1912). After him are Jacques de Vaucanson (1709), Louise Élisabeth of France (1727), Alain-René Lesage (1668), Dagobert II (650), Edmond James de Rothschild (1845), and Émile Loubet (1838).

Among CONDUCTORS In France

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

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