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Rafael Kubelik

real name Rafael Jeroným Kubelík

Býchory, Czech Republic

Rafael Kubelik is credited on 3,194 releases across 449 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1952–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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3,194

Credits

449

Albums

8

Decades active

25

In collections

Biography

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Czech conductor (born June 29, 1914 in Býchory near Kolín, Bohemia, former Austro-Hungarian Empire, now Czech Republic; died August 11, 1996 in Kastanienbaum LU, Switzerland). Son of Czech violinist and composer Jan Kubelík. Emigrated in 1948 after the Communist takeover of Czechoslovakia, lived mainly in Switzerland and in the U.S. After the death in 1961 of his first wife, the violinist Ludmila Bertlová (opens in a new tab), he married Australian soprano Elsie Morison in 1963.

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Credited work

3,194 releases · 449 albums · active 1952–2026

  • Performance · 3,645
  • Other credits · 78

Studios: Herkulessaal, München · Jesus-Christus-Kirche, Berlin · Orchestra Hall, Chicago · Sofiensaal

Discography

Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Frequent collaborators

  • Various
  • Gustav Mahler
  • Dvořák
  • Mozart
  • Antonín Dvořák
  • Smetana
  • Richard Wagner
  • Beethoven

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