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Karl Richter

1926 - 1981

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Karl Richter (15 October 1926 – 15 February 1981) was a German conductor, choirmaster, organist, and harpsichordist. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Karl Richter is the 393rd most popular composer (down from 351st in 2019), the 1,534th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,423rd in 2019) and the 54th most popular German Composer.

Karl Richter was a German conductor who was most famous for conducting a performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in front of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Karl Richter ranks 393 out of 1,451. Before him are Cole Porter, Jacobus Gallus, Johann Adam Reincken, Giovanni Legrenzi, Richard Rodgers, and Charles Koechlin. After him are Henri Dutilleux, Hans Pfitzner, Viktor Ullmann, Mauricio Kagel, Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco, and Carl Heinrich Graun.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Karl Richter ranks 112. Before him are Joshua Fishman, Shohei Imamura, John Berger, Joachim Fest, Poul Anderson, and Roger Corman. After him are Thorbjörn Fälldin, Patricia Neal, Carmen Franco, 1st Duchess of Franco, Siegfried Lenz, Verner Panton, and Jean-Marie Lustiger. Among people deceased in 1981, Karl Richter ranks 45. Before him are Will Durant, David Wechsler, Benjamin Sheares, Leo Kanner, Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark, and Lobsang Rampa. After him are Frances Yates, Alberto Suppici, Marcel Bezençon, Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, Bill Shankly, and Rómulo Betancourt.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Richter ranks 1,534 out of 7,253. Before him are Karl Albrecht (1920), Prince Ernst August of Hanover (1954), Tarkan (1972), Charles I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1654), Sebastian Kneipp (1821), and Fabian von Schlabrendorff (1907). After him are Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1884), Albert Günther (1830), Karl August von Hardenberg (1750), Douglas Sirk (1897), Walther Gerlach (1889), and Johann Adam Schall von Bell (1591).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Karl Richter ranks 54. Before him are Johann van Beethoven (1740), Klaus Schulze (1947), Samuel Scheidt (1587), Hans Werner Henze (1926), Hans Leo Hassler (1564), and Christian Gottlob Neefe (1748). After him are Carl Heinrich Graun (1704), Peter Cornelius (1824), Nicolaus Bruhns (1665), Ferdinand Hiller (1811), Wolfgang Wagner (1919), and Hermann Abendroth (1883).

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