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Wilhelm Furtwängler

1886 - 1954

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Gustav Heinrich Ernst Martin Wilhelm Furtwängler (UK: FOORT-veng-glər, US: -⁠lər, German: [ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈfʊɐ̯tvɛŋlɐ]; 25 January 1886 – 30 November 1954) was a German conductor and composer. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest symphonic and operatic conductors of the 20th century. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilhelm Furtwängler has received more than 685,771 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Wilhelm Furtwängler is the 6th most popular conductor (down from 5th in 2019), the 429th most popular biography from Germany (up from 444th in 2019) and the most popular German Conductor.

Wilhelm Furtwängler was a German conductor who was most famous for his interpretations of the symphonies of Brahms, Beethoven, and Bruckner.

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Among CONDUCTORS

Among conductors, Wilhelm Furtwängler ranks 6 out of 97. Before him are Herbert von Karajan, Daniel Barenboim, Claudio Abbado, Arturo Toscanini, and Zubin Mehta. After him are Riccardo Muti, Lorin Maazel, Sergiu Celibidache, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Karl Böhm, and Bruno Walter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Wilhelm Furtwängler ranks 17. Before him are Manne Siegbahn, Karl Barth, Ernst Thälmann, Karl Polanyi, René Guénon, and Gerda Wegener. After him are Karl von Frisch, Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Gotthard Heinrici, George Mallory, Theodor Morell, and Erich Hoepner. Among people deceased in 1954, Wilhelm Furtwängler ranks 13. Before him are Robert Capa, Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, Princess Märtha of Sweden, André Derain, Getúlio Vargas, and Alcide De Gasperi. After him are Maximilian von Weichs, Dziga Vertov, Otto Diels, Andrey Vyshinsky, Machine Gun Kelly, and The French Angel.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Furtwängler ranks 429 out of 6,142. Before him are Wolfram von Eschenbach (1170), Hans Fritzsche (1900), Ernst Abbe (1840), Gerhard Richter (1932), Oskar Dirlewanger (1895), and Julius Lothar Meyer (1830). After him are Johann Georg Faust (1480), Æthelwulf, King of Wessex (795), Roland Freisler (1893), Victoria of Baden (1862), Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria (1808), and Albrecht Kossel (1853).

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Among CONDUCTORS In Germany

Among conductors born in Germany, Wilhelm Furtwängler ranks 1. After him are Nikolaus Harnoncourt (1929), Bruno Walter (1876), Hans Knappertsbusch (1888), Eugen Jochum (1902), Franz Danzi (1763), Günter Wand (1912), Karl Muck (1859), Ferdinand Leitner (1912), Joseph Keilberth (1908), Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt (1900), and Michael Gielen (1927).

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