CONDUCTOR

Otmar Suitner

1922 - 2010

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Otmar Suitner (German pronunciation: [ˈɔtmaʁ zuˈiːtnɐ]; 16 May 1922 – 8 January 2010) was an Austrian conductor who spent most of his professional career in East Germany. He was born in Innsbruck and died in Berlin. He was principal conductor of the Staatskapelle Dresden from 1960 to 1964, and then music director at the Berlin State Opera in East Berlin from 1964 to 1990. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Otmar Suitner has received more than 49,463 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Otmar Suitner is the 80th most popular conductor (up from 85th in 2019), the 745th most popular biography from Austria (down from 723rd in 2019) and the 6th most popular Austrian Conductor.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.41

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.66

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CONDUCTORS

Among conductors, Otmar Suitner ranks 80 out of 128. Before him are Paul Kletzki, Armas Järnefelt, Paavo Berglund, Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, Jiří Bělohlávek, and Aleksandr Gauk. After him are Michael Gielen, Ádám Fischer, Zdeněk Mácal, Adrian Boult, Charles Mackerras, and Claudio Scimone.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Otmar Suitner ranks 250. Before him are Nancy Mackay, Ruth Roman, Joanne Dru, John Hick, Lennart Nilsson, and Donald Keene. After him are Tomás Maldonado, Charles Gérard, Daniel Boulanger, Xenia Stad-de Jong, Agustín Gaínza, and Ja'afar of Negeri Sembilan. Among people deceased in 2010, Otmar Suitner ranks 212. Before him are Daniel Bensaïd, Hank Jones, Mohammed Mzali, Marcel Domingo, Gheorghe Apostol, and Tewhida Ben Sheikh. After him are Marina Semyonova, Mary Daly, Robin Milner, Tzannis Tzannetakis, Charlie Wilson, and Carl Adam Petri.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Otmar Suitner ranks 745 out of 1,424. Before him are Richard Heuberger (1850), Anderl Molterer (1931), Karl Sesta (1906), Eugen Wüster (1898), Theodore Bikel (1924), and Franz de Paula Adam von Waldstein (1759). After him are Wolfgang Schneiderhan (1915), Andi Herzog (1968), Friedrich Waismann (1896), Willy Böckl (1893), Alexander Pschill (1970), and Robert Dienst (1928).

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Among CONDUCTORS In Austria

Among conductors born in Austria, Otmar Suitner ranks 6. Before him are Herbert von Karajan (1908), Karl Böhm (1894), Erich Kleiber (1890), Franz Welser-Möst (1960), and Felix Mottl (1856).

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