The Most Famous

Composers from Iceland

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This page contains a list of the greatest Icelanders Composers. The pantheon dataset contains 1,451 Composers, 2 of which were born in Iceland. This makes Iceland the birth place of the 48th most number of Composers behind Lebanon and Kazakhstan.

Top 2 Icelander Composers

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Icelanders Composers of all time. This list of famous Icelanders Composers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.

  1. #1
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    Jón Leifs

    1899 - 1968

    HPI 58.1419 langs

    Icelandic composer and conductor (1899-1968)

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