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Otto Klemperer

1885 - 1973

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Otto Nossan Klemperer (14 May 1885 – 6 July 1973) was a German conductor and composer, originally based in Germany, and then the United States, Hungary and finally, Great Britain. He began his career as an opera conductor, but he was later better known as a conductor of symphonic music. A protégé of the composer and conductor Gustav Mahler, from 1907 Klemperer was appointed to a succession of increasingly senior conductorships in opera houses in and around Germany. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Otto Klemperer has received more than 610,969 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Otto Klemperer is the 14th most popular conductor, the 233rd most popular biography from Poland (down from 218th in 2019) and the most popular Polish Conductor.

Otto Klemperer is most famous for conducting the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and the New Philharmonia Orchestra.

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  • 60.03

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  • 6.15

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  • 2.90

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Among CONDUCTORS

Among conductors, Otto Klemperer ranks 14 out of 97Before him are Lorin Maazel, Sergiu Celibidache, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Karl Böhm, Bruno Walter, and Georg Solti. After him are Herbert Blomstedt, Kurt Masur, Rafael Kubelík, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Erich Kleiber, and Seiji Ozawa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, Otto Klemperer ranks 51Before him are Romano Guardini, Will Durant, Velimir Khlebnikov, Tamara Karsavina, Christian Wirth, and Franz Böhme. After him are Gunnar Asplund, André Lhote, Per Albin Hansson, Alois Hudal, Sacha Guitry, and Aristides de Sousa Mendes. Among people deceased in 1973, Otto Klemperer ranks 52Before him are Howard H. Aiken, Gerard Kuiper, Frank Costello, Taha Hussein, Emmy Göring, and W. H. Auden. After him are Robert Siodmak, Alan Watts, E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Leo Strauss, Katina Paxinou, and Shirali Muslimov.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Otto Klemperer ranks 233 out of 1,454Before him are Tadeusz Mazowiecki (1927), Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881), Piast the Wheelwright (800), Władysław II the Exile (1105), Alexander Bogdanov (1873), and Gunderic (379). After him are Eberhard von Mackensen (1889), Georg Forster (1754), Stanislaus Kostka (1550), Przemysł II (1257), Rüdiger von der Goltz (1865), and Władysław I Herman (1043).

Among CONDUCTORS In Poland

Among conductors born in Poland, Otto Klemperer ranks 1After him are Kurt Masur (1927), Kurt Sanderling (1912), Marek Janowski (1939), and Paul Kletzki (1900).