1914 - 1996
Rafael Jeroným Kubelík, KBE (29 June 1914 – 11 August 1996) was a Czech conductor and composer. The son of a distinguished violinist, Jan Kubelík, he was trained in Prague and made his debut with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of 19. Having managed to maintain a career in Czechoslovakia under the Nazi occupation, he refused to work under what he considered a "second tyranny" after the Communist Czechoslovak coup d'état of 1948, and took refuge in Britain. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rafael Kubelík has received more than 175,524 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Rafael Kubelík is the 17th most popular conductor (down from 16th in 2019), the 143rd most popular biography from Czechia (down from 130th in 2019) and the most popular Czech Conductor.
Rafael Kubelík is most famous for his interpretations of Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 5 in A major, K. 219 and the Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major, K. 216.
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Among conductors, Rafael Kubelík ranks 17 out of 97. Before him are Karl Böhm, Bruno Walter, Georg Solti, Otto Klemperer, Herbert Blomstedt, and Kurt Masur. After him are Dimitri Mitropoulos, Erich Kleiber, Seiji Ozawa, Carlo Maria Giulini, Leopold Stokowski, and Felix Weingartner.
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
1914 - 2005
HPI: 58.10
Rank: 21
1882 - 1977
HPI: 57.94
Rank: 22
1863 - 1942
HPI: 57.69
Rank: 23
Among people born in 1914, Rafael Kubelík ranks 50. Before him are Vjekoslav Luburić, Boris Christoff, Dylan Thomas, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Tyrone Power, and Mario Bava. After him are William Westmoreland, Agostino Casaroli, Francisco da Costa Gomes, Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin, James Van Allen, and Renato Dulbecco. Among people deceased in 1996, Rafael Kubelík ranks 53. Before him are Ernesto Geisel, Martin Balsam, Virginia Cherrill, Hideo Sakai, Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria, and María Casares. After him are Green Boots, Lucio Fulci, Piet Hein, Lars Ahlfors, Alain Poher, and Robert, Archduke of Austria-Este.
1914 - 1969
HPI: 59.87
Rank: 44
1914 - 1993
HPI: 59.83
Rank: 45
1914 - 1953
HPI: 59.81
Rank: 46
1914 - 1999
HPI: 59.73
Rank: 47
1914 - 1958
HPI: 59.68
Rank: 48
1914 - 1980
HPI: 59.65
Rank: 49
1914 - 1996
HPI: 59.31
Rank: 50
1914 - 2005
HPI: 59.30
Rank: 51
1914 - 1998
HPI: 59.23
Rank: 52
1914 - 2001
HPI: 59.23
Rank: 53
1914 - 1999
HPI: 59.22
Rank: 54
1914 - 2006
HPI: 59.22
Rank: 55
1914 - 2012
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 56
1907 - 1996
HPI: 59.77
Rank: 47
1919 - 1996
HPI: 59.52
Rank: 48
1908 - 1996
HPI: 59.38
Rank: 49
1909 - 1996
HPI: 59.37
Rank: 50
1905 - 1996
HPI: 59.35
Rank: 51
1922 - 1996
HPI: 59.32
Rank: 52
1914 - 1996
HPI: 59.31
Rank: 53
HPI: 59.28
Rank: 54
1927 - 1996
HPI: 59.20
Rank: 55
1905 - 1996
HPI: 59.08
Rank: 56
1907 - 1996
HPI: 59.07
Rank: 57
1909 - 1996
HPI: 59.01
Rank: 58
1915 - 1996
HPI: 58.99
Rank: 59
Among people born in Czechia, Rafael Kubelík ranks 143 out of 973. Before him are Balthasar Neumann (1687), Karel Schwarzenberg (1937), Johann II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1840), Wenceslaus I, Duke of Luxembourg (1337), Ottokar Czernin (1872), and Franz Benda (1709). After him are Jarmila Kratochvílová (1951), Emilie Schindler (1907), Bořivoj I, Duke of Bohemia (852), Karl I, Prince of Liechtenstein (1569), Ignaz Moscheles (1794), and Boleslaus II, Duke of Bohemia (932).
1687 - 1753
HPI: 59.73
Rank: 137
1937 - 2023
HPI: 59.72
Rank: 138
1840 - 1929
HPI: 59.57
Rank: 139
1337 - 1383
HPI: 59.50
Rank: 140
1872 - 1932
HPI: 59.33
Rank: 141
1709 - 1786
HPI: 59.33
Rank: 142
1914 - 1996
HPI: 59.31
Rank: 143
1951 - Present
HPI: 59.30
Rank: 144
1907 - 2001
HPI: 59.29
Rank: 145
852 - 888
HPI: 59.24
Rank: 146
1569 - 1627
HPI: 59.24
Rank: 147
1794 - 1870
HPI: 59.17
Rank: 148
932 - 999
HPI: 59.16
Rank: 149
Among conductors born in Czechia, Rafael Kubelík ranks 1. After him are Václav Neumann (1920), Karel Ančerl (1908), and Jiří Bělohlávek (1946).
1914 - 1996
HPI: 59.31
Rank: 1
1920 - 1995
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 2
1908 - 1973
HPI: 52.71
Rank: 3
1946 - 2017
HPI: 50.44
Rank: 4