CONDUCTOR

Karel Ančerl

1908 - 1973

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Karel Ančerl (11 April 1908 – 3 July 1973) was a Czechoslovak conductor and composer, renowned especially for his performances of contemporary music and for his interpretations of music by Czech composers. Ančerl was born into a prosperous Jewish family in the village of Tučapy in southern Bohemia. After graduating from the Prague Conservatory, he pursued his conducting studies under Hermann Scherchen and Václav Talich. He was the assistant conductor at the Munich premiere of Alois Hába's quarter-tone opera Mother (1931) and conducted the orchestra of the avant-garde theatre Osvobozené divadlo in Prague (1931–1933). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Karel Ančerl is the 47th most popular conductor (up from 50th in 2019), the 321st most popular biography from Czechia (up from 334th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Czech Conductor.

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Among CONDUCTORS

Among conductors, Karel Ančerl ranks 47 out of 128. Before him are Fritz Reiner, Thomas Beecham, Lovro von Matačić, Charles Munch, Eliahu Inbal, and Antal Doráti. After him are Yuri Temirkanov, José Antonio Abreu, Yevgeny Svetlanov, Eugene Aynsley Goossens, Kurt Sanderling, and Günter Wand.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Karel Ančerl ranks 143. Before him are Juan López Fontana, Jacques Massu, Johanna Budwig, Petro Shelest, Mel Blanc, and Luis Regueiro. After him are Giacomo Manzù, Ahmad Shukeiri, Lupe Vélez, Bruno Lüdke, Carl Laemmle Jr., and Son Ngoc Thanh. Among people deceased in 1973, Karel Ančerl ranks 114. Before him are Mirra Alfassa, Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, Lidia Ruslanova, Dmytro Dontsov, and Ben Webster. After him are Abd al-Rahman al-Bazzaz, Gabriel Voisin, Salchak Toka, Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu, Gene Krupa, and Vilhelm Moberg.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Karel Ančerl ranks 321 out of 1,200. Before him are Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria (1863), Václav Nedomanský (1944), Procopius of Sázava (970), Zdislava Berka (1215), Ivan Hašek (1963), and Luboš Kohoutek (1935). After him are František Tomášek (1899), Anne of Bavaria (1329), Ernst Weiss (1882), Julius Francis, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (1641), Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer (1656), and Rudolf Weigl (1883).

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Among CONDUCTORS In Czechia

Among conductors born in Czechia, Karel Ančerl ranks 3. Before him are Rafael Kubelík (1914), and Václav Neumann (1920). After him are Jiří Bělohlávek (1946), Zdeněk Mácal (1936), and Martin Turnovský (1928).

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