CONDUCTOR

Karl Böhm

1894 - 1981

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Karl August Leopold Böhm (28 August 1894 – 14 August 1981) was an Austrian conductor. He was best known for his performances of the music of Mozart, Wagner, and Richard Strauss. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Karl Böhm is the 8th most popular conductor (up from 12th in 2019), the 147th most popular biography from Austria (up from 203rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Austrian Conductor.

Karl Böhm is most famous for being a conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.

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Among CONDUCTORS

Among conductors, Karl Böhm ranks 8 out of 128. Before him are Riccardo Muti, Claudio Abbado, Arturo Toscanini, Daniel Barenboim, Zubin Mehta, and Wilhelm Furtwängler. After him are Sergiu Celibidache, Lorin Maazel, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Bruno Walter, Otto Klemperer, and Felix Weingartner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Karl Böhm ranks 23. Before him are Moshe Sharett, Kim Hyong-jik, Isaac Babel, Gala Dalí, Alexander Oparin, and Dietrich von Choltitz. After him are Pyotr Kapitsa, Heinrich Lübke, Harold Macmillan, Kiichiro Toyoda, Alfred Kinsey, and C. R. Swart. Among people deceased in 1981, Karl Böhm ranks 20. Before him are William Wyler, Harold Urey, Béla Guttmann, William Holden, Marcel Breuer, and Max Delbrück. After him are Natalie Wood, A. J. Cronin, Eugenio Montale, René Clair, Joseph Murphy, and Joe Louis.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Karl Böhm ranks 147 out of 1,424. Before him are Walther von der Vogelweide (1170), Dietrich Mateschitz (1944), Roland Ratzenberger (1960), Ernest, Duke of Austria (1377), Gustav Meyrink (1868), and Helmut Berger (1944). After him are Maria Mandl (1912), Albert III, Duke of Austria (1349), Ernst Happel (1925), Aloys II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1796), Ivan Illich (1926), and Maria Leopoldina of Austria (1797).

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Among CONDUCTORS In Austria

Among conductors born in Austria, Karl Böhm ranks 2. Before him are Herbert von Karajan (1908). After him are Erich Kleiber (1890), Felix Mottl (1856), Franz Welser-Möst (1960), and Otmar Suitner (1922).

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