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Theodore Thomas

1835 - 1905

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Theodore Thomas (October 11, 1835 – January 4, 1905) was a German-American violinist, conductor, and orchestrator. He is considered the first renowned American orchestral conductor and was the founder and first music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (1891–1905). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Theodore Thomas is the 1,648th most popular musician (down from 1,410th in 2019), the 5,037th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,696th in 2019) and the 87th most popular German Musician.

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Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Theodore Thomas ranks 1,648 out of 3,175. Before him are Hubert Sumlin, Benno Moiseiwitsch, Meshell Ndegeocello, John Levén, Graham Gouldman, and Hyde. After him are Laura Fygi, Buddy DeFranco, Michael Franks, Eliane Elias, Cassandra Wilson, and Trilok Gurtu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, Theodore Thomas ranks 83. Before him are Gregorio María Aguirre y García, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus, Kirkpatrick Macmillan, Richard Olney, Richard Andree, and Johannes Wislicenus. After him are Daniel Giraud Elliot, A. V. Dicey, Émile Léonard Mathieu, Vítězslav Hálek, Rebecca Latimer Felton, and William Stanley Haseltine. Among people deceased in 1905, Theodore Thomas ranks 87. Before him are Theodoros Diligiannis, Gyula Szapáry, Lev Lagorio, Simeon Solomon, Victor Borisov-Musatov, and William Muir. After him are Raimundo Fernández-Villaverde, Lizardo Montero Flores, Alexander Melville Bell, Juan Pablo Rojas Paúl, Mabel Cahill, and Vjenceslav Novak.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Theodore Thomas ranks 5,040 out of 7,253. Before him are Ulrich Plenzdorf (1934), Brother Alois (1954), Peter Härtling (1933), Christine Lambrecht (1965), Carl Amery (1922), and Tuvalu at the 2020 Summer Olympics (null). After him are Leo Wilden (1936), Norbert Blüm (1935), Nathan Zach (1930), Hermann Nuber (1935), Georg Holtzendorff (null), and Rudolph Dirks (1877).

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Among MUSICIANS In Germany

Among musicians born in Germany, Theodore Thomas ranks 87. Before him are Horst Stein (1928), Francis Buchholz (1954), Roland Grapow (1959), Reinhold Mack (1901), C418 (1989), and Meshell Ndegeocello (1968). After him are Robert Hausmann (1852), Manuel Göttsching (1952), Nick Menza (1964), Matthias Reim (1957), Shantel (1968), and Christoph Brüx (1965).

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