CONDUCTOR

Charles Mackerras

1925 - 2010

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Sir Alan Charles MacLaurin Mackerras (; (17 November 1925 – 14 July 2010) was an American-born Australian conductor. He was an authority on the operas of Janáček and Mozart, and the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan. He was long associated with the English National Opera (and its predecessor) and Welsh National Opera and was the first Australian chief conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. He also specialized in Czech music as a whole, producing many recordings for the Czech label Supraphon. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Mackerras is the 74th most popular conductor (up from 85th in 2019), the 5,202nd most popular biography from United States (up from 5,461st in 2019) and the 5th most popular American Conductor.

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Among CONDUCTORS

Among conductors, Charles Mackerras ranks 74 out of 128. Before him are Esa-Pekka Salonen, Karl Muck, Paul Kletzki, Paavo Berglund, Jean Martinon, and Henry Wood. After him are Jorma Panula, Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, Paavo Järvi, Joseph Keilberth, Michael Gielen, and Gustavo Dudamel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Charles Mackerras ranks 242. Before him are Claude Pinoteau, Arne Åhman, Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh, Wojciech Has, Jonathan Winters, and Doris Roberts. After him are John Neville, Ernst Jandl, Roy Haynes, Rubem Fonseca, Mohammed Mzali, and Yuli Daniel. Among people deceased in 2010, Charles Mackerras ranks 204. Before him are Ronnie Clayton, Lena Horne, Tzannis Tzannetakis, Panajot Pano, Sandro de América, and Petra Schürmann. After him are Carl Adam Petri, Mohammed Mzali, Lionel Cox, Samuel T. Cohen, Raymond Impanis, and Giuseppe Taddei.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Charles Mackerras ranks 5,202 out of 20,380. Before him are Brandon Sanderson (1975), Jordan Rudess (1956), Bobby Jindal (1971), Ralph Linton (1893), Kerry King (1964), and Rick Barry (1944). After him are Brad Bird (1957), Edward Furlong (1977), Joseph Brant (1742), Alvan Clark (1804), Chester Conklin (1886), and Dorothy Day (1897).

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Among CONDUCTORS In United States

Among conductors born in United States, Charles Mackerras ranks 5. Before him are Herbert Blomstedt (1927), James Levine (1943), John Philip Sousa (1854), and Kent Nagano (1951). After him are Dennis Russell Davies (1944), Robert Craft (1923), Alan Gilbert (1967), Arthur Fiedler (1894), and Anton Coppola (1917).

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