CONDUCTOR

Milan Horvat

1919 - 2014

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Milan Horvat (28 July 1919 – 1 January 2014) was a Croatian conductor. Horvat was born in Pakrac. He studied with Igor Markevitch and started his professional career in 1946 with the Radio Symphony Orchestra Zagreb, followed in 1953 by the post of chief conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra in Dublin (RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra) for five years. He was Chief Conductor, Managing Director, Principal Guest Conductor, and since 1985 Lifetime Honorary Chief Conductor of the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, with many performances in Salzburg, Venice, Marseille, Geneva, Vienna, Graz and the USA among others. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Milan Horvat is the 101st most popular conductor (up from 102nd in 2019). (down from 3,854th in 2019)

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Among conductors, Milan Horvat ranks 101 out of 128Before him are Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Ludwig von Brenner, Georg Schnéevoigt, Kirill Petrenko, Albert Coates, and Paul Paray. After him are Jascha Horenstein, Dennis Russell Davies, Tomás Bretón, Eri Klas, Valery Khalilov, and Fabio Luisi.

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Among people born in 1919, Milan Horvat ranks 241Before him are Roberto Bonomi, Laurence J. Peter, Paolo Soleri, Patricia Medina, Zuleykha Seyidmammadova, and Tini Wagner. After him are Hau Pei-tsun, Antonio Pietrangeli, Vicente Asensi, Axel von dem Bussche, William Stokoe, and Jack Goody. Among people deceased in 2014, Milan Horvat ranks 314Before him are Urs Widmer, Zbigniew Messner, Leonid Stadnyk, Gordon Tullock, Licia Albanese, and Stefan Bozhkov. After him are Dorothy Tyler-Odam, Takako Doi, Bobby Keys, Zbigniew Pietrzykowski, Antoine Duhamel, and Željko Šturanović.

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