CONDUCTOR

Zdeněk Mácal

1936 - 2023

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Zdeněk Mácal (Czech: [ˈzdɛɲɛk ˈmaːtsal]; 8 January 1936 – 25 October 2023) was a Czech conductor who worked internationally. The promising conductor who had won international competitions left his home country of Czechoslovakia in 1968 when the Warsaw Pact ended the Prague Spring, to return only after communism ended there. He was chief conductor of the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne from 1970, the NDR Orchestra of Hanover, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in 1986, then the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra until 1995, the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra from 1993, and finally the Czech Philharmonic from 2003 to 2007. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Zdeněk Mácal has received more than 85,712 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Zdeněk Mácal is the 83rd most popular conductor, the 507th most popular biography from Czechia and the 5th most popular Czech Conductor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 86k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.14

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CONDUCTORS

Among conductors, Zdeněk Mácal ranks 83 out of 128. Before him are Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, Jiří Bělohlávek, Aleksandr Gauk, Otmar Suitner, Michael Gielen, and Ádám Fischer. After him are Adrian Boult, Charles Mackerras, Claudio Scimone, Ferdinand Leitner, Daniele Gatti, and Niyazi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Zdeněk Mácal ranks 303. Before him are Frankétienne, Igor Rodionov, Héctor Núñez, Eva Hesse, Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez, and Robert Langlands. After him are Norman Manea, Ivo Brešan, Henri Richard, Oreste Corbatta, Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim, and Jan Němec. Among people deceased in 2023, Zdeněk Mácal ranks 355. Before him are Wilferd Madelung, Renate Boy, Erkin Koray, Pat McCormick, Nicolae Neagoe, and Russell Banks. After him are Fay Weldon, Gordon Lightfoot, Juan Carlos Sarnari, Francis Lee, Princess Marie Gabrielle of Luxembourg, and Charles W. Misner.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Zdeněk Mácal ranks 507 out of 1,200. Before him are Vera Ralston (1920), Princess Bathildis of Schaumburg-Lippe (1873), Ludvík Vaculík (1926), Andreas Hammerschmidt (1611), Vladimír Špidla (1951), and Karel Teige (1900). After him are Antonín Švehla (1873), Hugo Haas (1901), Miroslav Vitouš (1947), Ivan Hašek (1963), Karel Píč (1920), and Franz Konwitschny (1901).

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Among CONDUCTORS In Czechia

Among conductors born in Czechia, Zdeněk Mácal ranks 5. Before him are Rafael Kubelík (1914), Václav Neumann (1920), Karel Ančerl (1908), and Jiří Bělohlávek (1946). After him are Martin Turnovský (1928).

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