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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 149,862 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Wolfgang Wagner is the 373rd most popular composer (up from 405th in 2019), the 1,523rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,599th in 2019) and the 55th most popular German Composer.

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  • 7.60

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  • 1.78

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Wolfgang Wagner ranks 373 out of 1,451. Before him are Aaron Copland, Mykola Lysenko, Domenico Zipoli, Nikolaus I, Prince Esterházy, Alfredo Catalani, and Grażyna Bacewicz. After him are Joaquín Turina, Charles Koechlin, Hans Richter, Carl Heinrich Graun, Rodion Shchedrin, and Jacques Arcadelt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Wolfgang Wagner ranks 65. Before him are Valentino Mazzola, René Barrientos, Joe Weider, Ian Smith, Licio Gelli, and Lauri Törni. After him are Bob Paisley, Mieczysław Weinberg, José Villalonga, Maurice Herzog, Archduke Rudolf of Austria, and Kiichi Miyazawa. Among people deceased in 2010, Wolfgang Wagner ranks 60. Before him are Anton Geesink, Milka Planinc, Patricia Neal, John Forsythe, Hwang Jang-yop, and Carlos Andrés Pérez. After him are Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy, Giulietta Simionato, Bent Larsen, Luis Corvalán, Ariel Ramírez, and Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wolfgang Wagner ranks 1,523 out of 7,253. Before him are Hermann Carl Vogel (1841), Arnold van Gennep (1873), Ernest Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1724), Gertrude of Merania (1185), Eduard Heine (1821), and Duke Pius August in Bavaria (1786). After him are Hans-Georg Schwarzenbeck (1948), Paul Rée (1849), Ruth Fuchs (1946), Reinhart Koselleck (1923), Joachim von Sandrart (1606), and Karl Albrecht (1920).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Wolfgang Wagner ranks 55. Before him are Johann Schein (1586), Hans Leo Hassler (1564), Johann Kuhnau (1660), Karl Richter (1926), Hugo Riemann (1849), and Samuel Scheidt (1587). After him are Carl Heinrich Graun (1704), Johann Georg Pisendel (1687), Nicolaus Bruhns (1665), Carl Loewe (1796), Alfred Einstein (1880), and Ferdinand Ries (1784).

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