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Willi Boskovsky

1909 - 1991

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Willibald Karl Boskovsky (16 June 1909 – 21 April 1991) was an Austrian violinist and conductor, best known as the long-standing conductor of the Vienna New Year's Concert from 1955 to 1979. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Willi Boskovsky has received more than 85,286 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Willi Boskovsky is the 413th most popular musician (down from 369th in 2019), the 427th most popular biography from Austria (down from 385th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Austrian Musician.

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  • 85k

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  • 56.93

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.32

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.23

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Willi Boskovsky ranks 413 out of 3,175. Before him are Joe Perry, Johnny Winter, Bulbul, Alan Walker, Tom Petty, and Domenico Alberti. After him are DJ BoBo, Krystian Zimerman, Safi al-Din al-Urmawi, Annie Fischer, John Phillips, and Leonardo De Lorenzo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Willi Boskovsky ranks 83. Before him are Porfirio Rubirosa, Ben Webster, Stavros Niarchos, William M. Branham, Homi J. Bhabha, and Albert R. Broccoli. After him are Juan Carlos Onetti, Malcolm Lowry, Nathan Rosen, Tokizo Ichihashi, Isa Miranda, and Adolfo López Mateos. Among people deceased in 1991, Willi Boskovsky ranks 73. Before him are Demetrios I of Constantinople, Vilém Flusser, Sergey Akhromeyev, Giacomo Manzù, Héctor Rial, and María Zambrano. After him are Edmond Jabès, Pedro Arrupe, Rudolf Serkin, Cassandra Harris, Carmine Coppola, and Yevgeny Dragunov.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Willi Boskovsky ranks 427 out of 1,424. Before him are Johann Nepomuk Karl, Prince of Liechtenstein (1724), Karl-Maria Kertbeny (1824), Princess Alexandra of Hanover (1882), Oscar Straus (1870), Johannes Schober (1874), and Viktor Kaplan (1876). After him are Ivan Šubašić (1892), Moritz von Schwind (1804), Annie Fischer (1914), Charles of Austria, Bishop of Wroclaw (1590), Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić (1874), and Otto F. Kernberg (1928).

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Among MUSICIANS In Austria

Among musicians born in Austria, Willi Boskovsky ranks 12. Before him are Joseph Joachim (1831), Anton Diabelli (1781), Maria Theresia von Paradis (1759), Joe Zawinul (1932), Friedrich Gulda (1930), and Paul Wittgenstein (1887). After him are Annie Fischer (1914), Paul Badura-Skoda (1927), Henri Herz (1803), Ingrid Haebler (1926), Anton Karas (1906), and Jörg Demus (1928).

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