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Wolfgang Wagner

1919 - 2010

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Wolfgang Wagner (30 August 1919 – 21 March 2010) was a German opera director. He is best known as the director (Festspielleiter) of the Bayreuth Festival, a position he initially assumed alongside his brother Wieland in 1951 until the latter's death in 1966. From then on, he assumed total control until he retired in 2008, although many of the productions which he commissioned were severely criticized in their day. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wolfgang Wagner has received more than 140,307 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Wolfgang Wagner is the 405th most popular composer (up from 413th in 2019), the 1,599th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,543rd in 2019) and the 59th most popular German Composer.

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  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.05

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  • 1.94

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Wolfgang Wagner ranks 405 out of 1,216. Before him are Bernardo Pasquini, John Koukouzelis, Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco, Józef Elsner, Terry Riley, and Jacob Clemens non Papa. After him are Charles Koechlin, André Jolivet, Johann van Beethoven, Maria Szymanowska, Alexander Dargomyzhsky, and Joaquín Turina.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Wolfgang Wagner ranks 68. Before him are Ernst Barkmann, Bob Paisley, Valentino Mazzola, Archduke Rudolf of Austria, Kiichi Miyazawa, and Peter Abrahams. After him are Liberace, Maurice Herzog, Charles Sweeney, François Périer, Merce Cunningham, and Licio Gelli. Among people deceased in 2010, Wolfgang Wagner ranks 66. Before him are Solomon Burke, Milka Planinc, Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, Archduke Rudolf of Austria, Patricia Neal, and André Kolingba. After him are Carlos Andrés Pérez, Satoshi Kon, Alexander McQueen, Ariel Ramírez, Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, and Sigmar Polke.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wolfgang Wagner ranks 1,599 out of 6,142. Before him are Mike Nichols (1931), Wilhelm Backhaus (1884), Horst Eckel (1932), Heinrich Göbel (1818), Gottfried Böhm (1920), and Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736). After him are Johann Arndt (1555), Werner Jaeger (1888), Sebastian Vettel (1987), Johann Matthäus Bechstein (1757), John Heartfield (1891), and Fidelis of Sigmaringen (1577).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Wolfgang Wagner ranks 59. Before him are Friedrich von Flotow (1812), Johann Schein (1586), Carl Heinrich Graun (1704), Klaus Schulze (1947), Ferdinand Ries (1784), and Hans Werner Henze (1926). After him are Johann van Beethoven (1740), Hugo Riemann (1849), Albert Lortzing (1801), Heinrich Marschner (1795), Johann Christoph Bach (1671), and Hans Leo Hassler (1564).

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