CONDUCTOR

Hans Zender

1936 - 2019

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Johannes Wolfgang Zender (22 November 1936 – 22 October 2019) was a German conductor and composer. He was the chief conductor of several opera houses, and his compositions, many of them vocal music, have been performed at international festivals. As a conductor, he worked at the Theater Freiburg, Theater Bonn, Opernhaus Kiel and Hamburg State Opera, and led the radio orchestra Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern. He taught at the Musikhochschule Frankfurt. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hans Zender is the 93rd most popular conductor (up from 104th in 2019), the 4,232nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,584th in 2019) and the 13th most popular German Conductor.

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Among CONDUCTORS

Among conductors, Hans Zender ranks 93 out of 128. Before him are Aleksandr Gauk, Armas Järnefelt, Ádám Fischer, Vasily Agapkin, Niyazi, and Daniele Gatti. After him are Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Ludwig von Brenner, Georg Schnéevoigt, Kirill Petrenko, and Albert Coates.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Hans Zender ranks 330. Before him are Ong Teng Cheong, Edén Pastora, Robert W. Floyd, Francisco Ibáñez Talavera, Edward Gibson, and Brian Hart. After him are George Eastham, Bobby Seale, Héctor Núñez, Scott LaFaro, Carlos Mota Pinto, and Michel Jazy. Among people deceased in 2019, Hans Zender ranks 295. Before him are Reinhard Bonnke, Sigvard Ericsson, Gerhard Auer, Agustina Bessa-Luís, Apolo Nsibambi, and Dick Boushka. After him are Don Bragg, Bogaletch Gebre, Sergio Valdés, Charles Gérard, Omero Antonutti, and Norma Croker.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hans Zender ranks 4,234 out of 7,253. Before him are Max Lange (1832), Emanuel Geibel (1815), Karl Georg Christian von Staudt (1798), Ingrid Gulbin (1943), Frederick I, Count Palatine of Simmern (1417), and Georg von Habsburg (1964). After him are Alfred Abel (1879), James Krüss (1926), Joseph Vilsmaier (1939), Jutta Rüdiger (1910), Margot Hielscher (1919), and Joachim Ringelnatz (1883).

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Among CONDUCTORS In Germany

Among conductors born in Germany, Hans Zender ranks 13. Before him are Günter Wand (1912), Karl Muck (1859), Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt (1900), Joseph Keilberth (1908), Michael Gielen (1927), and Ferdinand Leitner (1912). After him are Ludwig von Brenner (1833).

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