1885 - 1973
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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Among conductors, Otto Klemperer ranks 14 out of 97. Before 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.
1930 - 2014
HPI: 64.01
Rank: 8
1912 - 1996
HPI: 63.91
Rank: 9
1929 - 2016
HPI: 63.60
Rank: 10
1894 - 1981
HPI: 63.12
Rank: 11
1876 - 1962
HPI: 62.01
Rank: 12
1912 - 1997
HPI: 61.54
Rank: 13
1885 - 1973
HPI: 60.03
Rank: 14
1927 - Present
HPI: 59.93
Rank: 15
1927 - 2015
HPI: 59.44
Rank: 16
1914 - 1996
HPI: 59.31
Rank: 17
1896 - 1960
HPI: 58.94
Rank: 18
1890 - 1956
HPI: 58.37
Rank: 19
1935 - 2024
HPI: 58.24
Rank: 20
Among people born in 1885, Otto Klemperer ranks 51. Before 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 52. Before 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.
1885 - 1968
HPI: 60.98
Rank: 45
1885 - 1981
HPI: 60.76
Rank: 46
1885 - 1922
HPI: 60.57
Rank: 47
1885 - 1978
HPI: 60.47
Rank: 48
1885 - 1944
HPI: 60.24
Rank: 49
1885 - 1947
HPI: 60.11
Rank: 50
1885 - 1973
HPI: 60.03
Rank: 51
1885 - 1940
HPI: 59.78
Rank: 52
1885 - 1962
HPI: 59.67
Rank: 53
1885 - 1946
HPI: 59.44
Rank: 54
1885 - 1963
HPI: 59.06
Rank: 55
1885 - 1957
HPI: 58.44
Rank: 56
1885 - 1954
HPI: 58.34
Rank: 57
1900 - 1973
HPI: 62.11
Rank: 46
1905 - 1973
HPI: 61.97
Rank: 47
1891 - 1973
HPI: 61.80
Rank: 48
1889 - 1973
HPI: 61.51
Rank: 49
1893 - 1973
HPI: 61.47
Rank: 50
1907 - 1973
HPI: 60.47
Rank: 51
1885 - 1973
HPI: 60.03
Rank: 52
1900 - 1973
HPI: 60.02
Rank: 53
1915 - 1973
HPI: 59.79
Rank: 54
1902 - 1973
HPI: 59.52
Rank: 55
1899 - 1973
HPI: 59.48
Rank: 56
1900 - 1973
HPI: 59.30
Rank: 57
1805 - 1973
HPI: 59.18
Rank: 58
Among people born in Poland, Otto Klemperer ranks 233 out of 1,454. Before 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).
1927 - 2013
HPI: 60.20
Rank: 227
1881 - 1950
HPI: 60.17
Rank: 228
800 - 870
HPI: 60.16
Rank: 229
1105 - 1159
HPI: 60.15
Rank: 230
1873 - 1928
HPI: 60.08
Rank: 231
379 - 428
HPI: 60.05
Rank: 232
1885 - 1973
HPI: 60.03
Rank: 233
1889 - 1969
HPI: 59.94
Rank: 234
1754 - 1794
HPI: 59.93
Rank: 235
1550 - 1568
HPI: 59.92
Rank: 236
1257 - 1296
HPI: 59.92
Rank: 237
1865 - 1946
HPI: 59.91
Rank: 238
1043 - 1102
HPI: 59.87
Rank: 239
Among conductors born in Poland, Otto Klemperer ranks 1. After him are Kurt Masur (1927), Kurt Sanderling (1912), Marek Janowski (1939), and Paul Kletzki (1900).
1885 - 1973
HPI: 60.03
Rank: 1
1927 - 2015
HPI: 59.44
Rank: 2
1912 - 2011
HPI: 53.40
Rank: 3
1939 - Present
HPI: 52.56
Rank: 4
1900 - 1973
HPI: 49.65
Rank: 5