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Rafael Kubelík

1914 - 1996

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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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  • 180k

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  • 59.31

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  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.19

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among CONDUCTORS

Among conductors, Rafael Kubelík ranks 17 out of 97Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Rafael Kubelík ranks 50Before 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 53Before 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.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Rafael Kubelík ranks 143 out of 973Before 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).

Among CONDUCTORS In Czechia

Among conductors born in Czechia, Rafael Kubelík ranks 1After him are Václav Neumann (1920), Karel Ančerl (1908), and Jiří Bělohlávek (1946).