COMPOSER

Adolf Wiklund

1879 - 1950

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Adolf Wiklund (5 June 1879 in Långserud, Värmland – 2 April 1950 in Stockholm) was a Swedish composer and conductor. His father was an organist. After graduating from the Royal College of Music, Stockholm as an organist and music teacher, Wiklund was awarded scholarships to study piano in Sweden and then in Paris. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adolf Wiklund has received more than 22,786 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Adolf Wiklund is the 1,040th most popular composer (down from 871st in 2019).

Memorability Metrics

  • 23k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.72

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.32

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.56

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Adolf Wiklund ranks 1,040 out of 1,451. Before him are Gioseffo Guami, Camargo Guarnieri, Roman Vlad, Siegmund von Hausegger, Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, and Ludvig Norman. After him are Antoine Duhamel, Hubert Parry, Alessandro Striggio, Jón Leifs, Kalevi Aho, and Manuel Cardoso.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Adolf Wiklund ranks 151. Before him are Otto Wahle, Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, René Pottier, Benjamin Christensen, Osman Aqçoqraqlı, and Petros Persakis. After him are Wladimir Aïtoff, Nikolai Vissarionovich Nekrasov, Pierre Cérésole, Henri Jobier, Émile Champion, and Antti Tulenheimo. Among people deceased in 1950, Adolf Wiklund ranks 128. Before him are Alykul Osmonov, Edward Arthur Milne, Ivan Shmelyov, Dirk Coster, Konrad von Preysing, and Pedro Parages. After him are Frederic Lewy, Albert Ehrenstein, Axeman of New Orleans, Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones, Frederick Twort, and Mikhail Tskhakaya.

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