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Hermann Scherchen

1891 - 1966

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Hermann Scherchen (21 June 1891 – 12 June 1966) was a German conductor, who was principal conductor of the city orchestra of Winterthur from 1922 to 1950. He promoted contemporary music, beginning with Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire, followed by works by Richard Strauss, Anton Webern, Alban Berg, Edgard Varèse, later Iannis Xenakis, Luigi Nono and Leon Schidlowsky. He usually conducted without using a baton. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hermann Scherchen is the 560th most popular composer (up from 584th in 2019), the 2,200th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,327th in 2019) and the 86th most popular German Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Hermann Scherchen ranks 560 out of 1,451. Before him are Giacinto Scelsi, Luigi Rossi, Johann David Heinichen, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Franz Doppler, and Conradin Kreutzer. After him are Johann Gottlieb Naumann, Louise Farrenc, Tomaso Antonio Vitali, Hans Krása, Johannes Ciconia, and Georg Christoph Wagenseil.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Hermann Scherchen ranks 81. Before him are Johannes R. Becher, Kálmán Kalocsay, Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin, Otto Schmidt, Bruno Loerzer, and Jüri Lossmann. After him are Grunya Sukhareva, Seth Barnes Nicholson, Tin Ujević, Yvan Goll, Ivan Vinogradov, and Franz Alexander. Among people deceased in 1966, Hermann Scherchen ranks 71. Before him are Georges Duhamel, Mir Sultan Khan, Elena Stasova, Edward Gordon Craig, Amédée Ozenfant, and Venceslau Brás. After him are Fritz Wunderlich, Edmond Locard, Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Wilhelm Röpke, and Emil Brunner.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hermann Scherchen ranks 2,201 out of 7,253. Before him are Konrad von Feuchtwangen (1230), Rudolph Goclenius (1547), Charles II August, Duke of Zweibrücken (1746), Artur Fischer (1919), Katia Mann (1883), and Katarina Witt (1965). After him are Karl Vogt (1817), Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle (1809), Johann Gottlieb Naumann (1741), Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer (1922), Heinz Brandt (1907), and Louis IV, Elector Palatine (1424).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Hermann Scherchen ranks 86. Before him are Reinhard Keiser (1674), Friedrich Wieck (1785), Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach (1759), Johann David Heinichen (1683), Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918), and Conradin Kreutzer (1780). After him are Johann Gottlieb Naumann (1741), Max Richter (1966), Johann Nikolaus Forkel (1749), Aloysia Weber (1760), Johann Christoph Pepusch (1667), and Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877).

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