CONDUCTOR

Günter Wand

1912 - 2002

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Günter Wand (7 January 1912, in Elberfeld, Germany – 14 February 2002, in Ulmiz near Bern, Switzerland) was a German orchestra conductor and composer. Wand studied in Wuppertal, Allenstein and Detmold. At the Cologne Conservatory, he was a composition student with Philipp Jarnach and a piano student with Paul Baumgartner. He was a conducting pupil of Franz von Hoesslin in Munich, but was otherwise largely self-taught as a conductor. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Günter Wand is the 53rd most popular conductor (down from 51st in 2019), the 3,141st most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,851st in 2019) and the 7th most popular German Conductor.

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Among CONDUCTORS

Among conductors, Günter Wand ranks 53 out of 128. Before him are Karel Ančerl, Yuri Temirkanov, José Antonio Abreu, Yevgeny Svetlanov, Eugene Aynsley Goossens, and Kurt Sanderling. After him are Felix Mottl, Victor de Sabata, Gary Bertini, Iván Fischer, Willem Kes, and Semyon Bychkov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Günter Wand ranks 162. Before him are Jure Francetić, Hasan Salama, Khalid Bakdash, Henry Armstrong, Mwambutsa IV of Burundi, and Kurt Sanderling. After him are Svetozar Vukmanović, Wilfrid Sellars, Rudolf Vytlačil, Võ Chí Công, Kaneto Shindo, and Charles Augustus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. Among people deceased in 2002, Günter Wand ranks 132. Before him are Martti Miettunen, Wolfgang Preiss, Robert Guéï, Humaira Begum, Masakatsu Miyamoto, and Yves Robert. After him are Barbara Castle, David Riesman, Leo McKern, Eddie Bracken, Vlastimil Brodský, and Mamo Wolde.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Günter Wand ranks 3,143 out of 7,253. Before him are Josef Fischer (1865), Otto Henry, Count Palatine of Sulzbach (1556), George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven (1892), Tom Tykwer (1965), Johann Niemann (1913), and Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1787). After him are Willibald Pirckheimer (1470), Heinrich XIII, Prince Reuss of Greiz (1747), Rudolf Stammler (1856), Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1814), Alfred Delp (1907), and Heinz Flohe (1948).

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Among CONDUCTORS In Germany

Among conductors born in Germany, Günter Wand ranks 7. Before him are Wilhelm Furtwängler (1886), Nikolaus Harnoncourt (1929), Bruno Walter (1876), Hans Knappertsbusch (1888), Franz Danzi (1763), and Eugen Jochum (1902). After him are Karl Muck (1859), Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt (1900), Joseph Keilberth (1908), Michael Gielen (1927), Ferdinand Leitner (1912), and Hans Zender (1936).

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