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Leopold Stokowski

1882 - 1977

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Leopold Anthony Stokowski (18 April 1882 – 13 September 1977) was a British conductor. One of the leading conductors of the early and mid-20th century, he is best known for his long association with the Philadelphia Orchestra. He was especially noted for his free-hand conducting style that spurned the traditional baton and for obtaining a characteristically sumptuous sound from the orchestras he directed. Stokowski was music director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the NBC Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the Houston Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony of the Air and many others. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Leopold Stokowski is the 23rd most popular conductor, the 1,256th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,127th in 2019) and the most popular British Conductor.

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Among CONDUCTORS

Among conductors, Leopold Stokowski ranks 23 out of 128. Before him are Rafael Kubelík, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Kurt Masur, Carlo Maria Giulini, Erich Kleiber, and Hans Knappertsbusch. After him are Serge Koussevitzky, Georg Solti, Franz Danzi, Eugen Jochum, Charles Dutoit, and Leif Segerstam.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Leopold Stokowski ranks 76. Before him are Feng Yuxiang, John Rabe, Johnny Torrio, Franz Seldte, Leo Perutz, and Eugène Joseph Delporte. After him are Ernst von Weizsäcker, Joaquín Turina, Lucien Petit-Breton, Artur Schnabel, Yoshijirō Umezu, and Natalia Sedova. Among people deceased in 1977, Leopold Stokowski ranks 54. Before him are Kamal Jumblatt, Gudrun Ensslin, Sepp Herberger, Oskar Morgenstern, Prince Xavier of Bourbon-Parma, and Hans Martin Sutermeister. After him are Jan Patočka, Olave Baden-Powell, Hamida Djandoubi, Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani, Princess Margaretha of Sweden, and Félix Gouin.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Leopold Stokowski ranks 1,256 out of 8,785. Before him are James Stirling (1926), Louisa Adams (1775), Robert Browning (1812), Stephen Hales (1677), Ann Jones (1938), and John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich (1718). After him are Lady Byron (1792), Denholm Elliott (1922), P. D. James (1920), E. L. James (1963), Richard Hamilton (1922), and Don Airey (1948).

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Among CONDUCTORS In United Kingdom

Among conductors born in United Kingdom, Leopold Stokowski ranks 1. After him are Simon Rattle (1955), Colin Davis (1927), John Eliot Gardiner (1943), John Barbirolli (1899), Thomas Beecham (1879), Eugene Aynsley Goossens (1893), Adrian Boult (1889), Henry Wood (1869), Antonio Pappano (1959), Daniel Harding (1975), and Jeffrey Tate (1943).

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