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Rafael Kubelík

1914 - 1996

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Rafael Jeroným Kubelík, KBE (29 June 1914 – 11 August 1996) was a Czech conductor and composer. The son of a distinguished violinist, Jan Kubelík, he was trained in Prague and made his debut with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of 19. Having managed to maintain a career in Czechoslovakia under the Nazi occupation, he refused to work under what he considered a "second tyranny" after the Communist Czechoslovak coup d'état of 1948, and took refuge in Britain. He became a Swiss citizen in 1967. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rafael Kubelík is the 17th most popular conductor (up from 18th in 2019), the 162nd most popular biography from Czechia (down from 161st in 2019) and the most popular Czech Conductor.

Rafael Kubelík is most famous for his interpretations of Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 5 in A major, K. 219 and the Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major, K. 216.

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Among CONDUCTORS

Among conductors, Rafael Kubelík ranks 17 out of 128. Before him are Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Bruno Walter, Otto Klemperer, Felix Weingartner, Herbert Blomstedt, and Seiji Ozawa. After him are Dimitri Mitropoulos, Kurt Masur, Carlo Maria Giulini, Erich Kleiber, Hans Knappertsbusch, and Leopold Stokowski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Rafael Kubelík ranks 58. Before him are Akira Nozawa, Koichi Oita, Adolfo Bioy Casares, John Ireland, Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani, and María Félix. After him are Francisco da Costa Gomes, Dürrüşehvar Sultan, Carlo Maria Giulini, Dylan Thomas, Jack Parsons, and William Phillips. Among people deceased in 1996, Rafael Kubelík ranks 61. Before him are Koichi Oita, Piet Hein, Georges Duby, Victor Ambartsumian, Obdulio Varela, and Pat Brown. After him are Mohamed Farrah Aidid, Mieczysław Weinberg, Leonor Fini, Walter M. Miller Jr., María Casares, and Brigitte Helm.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Rafael Kubelík ranks 162 out of 1,200. Before him are Karl I, Prince of Liechtenstein (1569), Jan Kodeš (1946), Jarmila Kratochvílová (1951), Carl von Rokitansky (1804), Georg Benda (1722), and Josef Čapek (1887). After him are Franz Reichelt (1879), František Palacký (1798), Victor Adler (1852), Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760), Věra Chytilová (1929), and Karel Schwarzenberg (1937).

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Among CONDUCTORS In Czechia

Among conductors born in Czechia, Rafael Kubelík ranks 1. After him are Václav Neumann (1920), Karel Ančerl (1908), Jiří Bělohlávek (1946), Zdeněk Mácal (1936), and Martin Turnovský (1928).

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