CONDUCTOR

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 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 730,293 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Wilhelm Furtwängler is the 5th most popular conductor (up from 6th in 2019), the 450th most popular biography from Germany (down from 429th 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 5 out of 128. Before him are Herbert von Karajan, Claudio Abbado, Arturo Toscanini, and Daniel Barenboim. After him are Zubin Mehta, Sergiu Celibidache, Riccardo Muti, Seiji Ozawa, Lorin Maazel, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, and Karl Böhm.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Wilhelm Furtwängler ranks 15. Before him are Sergey Kirov, Marc Bloch, René Guénon, Jean Arp, Ernst Thälmann, and Karl Barth. After him are Karl von Frisch, Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, George Mallory, Karl Polanyi, Jan Masaryk, and Theodor Morell. Among people deceased in 1954, Wilhelm Furtwängler ranks 15. Before him are Getúlio Vargas, Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, Alcide De Gasperi, André Derain, Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Otto Diels. After him are Dziga Vertov, Maximilian von Weichs, Andrey Vyshinsky, Jacinto Benavente, Léon Jouhaux, and Lucien Tesnière.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Furtwängler ranks 450 out of 7,253. Before him are Maria Amalia of Saxony (1724), Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (1750), Hedwig of Silesia (1174), Johann Gottfried Galle (1812), Victoria of Baden (1862), and Conradin (1252). After him are Otto Frank (1889), Till Lindemann (1963), Ananda Mahidol (1925), Maria Josepha of Bavaria (1739), Roland Freisler (1893), and Adam of Bremen (1100).

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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), Joseph Keilberth (1908), Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt (1900), Michael Gielen (1927), and Ferdinand Leitner (1912).

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