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Bruno Walter

1876 - 1962

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Bruno Walter (born Bruno Schlesinger, September 15, 1876 – February 17, 1962) was a German-born conductor, pianist, and composer. Born in Berlin, he escaped Nazi Germany in 1933, was naturalised as a French citizen in 1938, and settled in the United States in 1939. He worked closely with Gustav Mahler, whose music he helped to establish in the repertory, held major positions with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Concertgebouw Orchestra, Salzburg Festival, Vienna State Opera, Bavarian State Opera, Staatsoper Unter den Linden and Deutsche Oper Berlin, among others, made recordings of historical and artistic significance, and is widely considered to be one of the great conductors of the 20th century. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bruno Walter is the 12th most popular conductor (up from 13th in 2019), the 757th most popular biography from Germany (up from 824th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular German Conductor.

Bruno Walter is most famous for being a conductor, pianist, and composer. He was born in 1876 and died in 1962. He was the first conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.

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Among CONDUCTORS

Among conductors, Bruno Walter ranks 12 out of 128. Before him are Zubin Mehta, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Karl Böhm, Sergiu Celibidache, Lorin Maazel, and Nikolaus Harnoncourt. After him are Otto Klemperer, Felix Weingartner, Herbert Blomstedt, Seiji Ozawa, Rafael Kubelík, and Dimitri Mitropoulos.

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Among people born in 1876, Bruno Walter ranks 28. Before him are A. L. Kroeber, Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Belgium, Wied, Prince of Albania, Willis Carrier, Elsa Einstein, and Dragutin Dimitrijević. After him are Maxim Litvinov, Wilhelm Cuno, Max Jacob, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Kim Koo, and Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Among people deceased in 1962, Bruno Walter ranks 24. Before him are René Coty, Gabriele Münter, Fritz Kreisler, Michael Curtiz, Vasily Stalin, and Natalia Goncharova. After him are Hans-Jürgen von Arnim, Charles Laughton, Alfred Cortot, Ronald Fisher, Shunroku Hata, and Georgios Papanikolaou.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Bruno Walter ranks 757 out of 7,253. Before him are Andrew Wiles (1953), Johann Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (1530), Werner von Haeften (1908), Carlos Kleiber (1930), Albert, King of Sweden (1340), and William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (1852). After him are Bernhard Schlink (1944), Michael Praetorius (1571), Jürgen Klinsmann (1964), Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1879), Pavlo Skoropadskyi (1873), and Berti Vogts (1946).

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Among CONDUCTORS In Germany

Among conductors born in Germany, Bruno Walter ranks 3. Before him are Wilhelm Furtwängler (1886), and Nikolaus Harnoncourt (1929). After him are Hans Knappertsbusch (1888), Franz Danzi (1763), Eugen Jochum (1902), Günter Wand (1912), Karl Muck (1859), Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt (1900), Joseph Keilberth (1908), Michael Gielen (1927), and Ferdinand Leitner (1912).

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