CONDUCTOR

Otto Klemperer

1885 - 1973

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Otto Nossan Klemperer (German: [ˌɔto ˈklɛmʁpəʁɐ] ; 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 648,294 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia. Otto Klemperer is the 15th most popular conductor (down from 14th in 2019), the 253rd most popular biography from Poland (down from 233rd 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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  • 60.51

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.99

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Among CONDUCTORS

Among conductors, Otto Klemperer ranks 15 out of 128. Before him are Seiji Ozawa, Lorin Maazel, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Karl Böhm, Bruno Walter, and Dimitri Mitropoulos. After him are Georg Solti, Herbert Blomstedt, Rafael Kubelík, Kurt Masur, Carlo Maria Giulini, and Felix Weingartner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, Otto Klemperer ranks 51. Before him are Romano Guardini, Clementine Churchill, Christian Wirth, Aristides de Sousa Mendes, Velimir Khlebnikov, and Uzeyir Hajibeyov. After him are Sacha Guitry, Per Albin Hansson, Franz Böhme, Theda Bara, André Lhote, and Seishirō Itagaki. Among people deceased in 1973, Otto Klemperer ranks 57. Before him are Frank Costello, Howard H. Aiken, Leo Strauss, Emmy Göring, Asger Jorn, and Periyar E. V. Ramasamy. After him are Adolf Strauss, Karl Löwith, Milunka Savić, Robert Siodmak, Károly Kerényi, and Edward Steichen.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Otto Klemperer ranks 253 out of 1,694. Before him are Akiba Rubinstein (1880), Anna von Schweidnitz (1339), Hermann Grassmann (1809), Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749), Itzhak Stern (1901), and Erich Fellgiebel (1886). After him are Carl Gotthard Langhans (1732), Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1848), Albert Barillé (1920), Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881), Jan Długosz (1415), and Alexander Bogdanov (1873).

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Among CONDUCTORS In Poland

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).

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