COMPOSER

Adolf von Henselt

1814 - 1889

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Georg Martin Adolf von Henselt (9 May 1814 – 10 October 1889) was a German composer and virtuoso pianist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adolf von Henselt has received more than 76,661 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Adolf von Henselt is the 625th most popular composer (down from 598th in 2019), the 2,450th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,305th in 2019) and the 100th most popular German Composer.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.88

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Adolf von Henselt ranks 625 out of 1,451. Before him are Francesco Canova da Milano, Jeremiah Clarke, Léon Boëllmann, Johann Nikolaus Forkel, Pancho Vladigerov, and Tomaso Antonio Vitali. After him are Andrea Falconieri, Claude Goudimel, Riccardo Zandonai, Max Richter, Orlando Gibbons, and Stephen Foster.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1814, Adolf von Henselt ranks 33. Before him are Rasoherina, Théodolinde de Beauharnais, Kamehameha III, Josif Pančić, Ernst Curtius, and Henri Tresca. After him are Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Rafael Carrera, Tatya Tope, Ivan Mažuranić, Auguste Clésinger, and Miklós Ybl. Among people deceased in 1889, Adolf von Henselt ranks 35. Before him are Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel, Elvira Madigan, Viktor Bunyakovsky, Ion Creangă, Princess Eugénie of Sweden, and Franciscus Donders. After him are Ybyrai Altynsarin, Đồng Khánh, Émile Augier, Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada, Şihabetdin Märcani, and Bernhard Förster.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Adolf von Henselt ranks 2,450 out of 7,253. Before him are Prince Albert of Prussia (1837), Rupert I, Elector Palatine (1309), Johann Michael Bach (1648), Martin Gottfried Weiss (1905), Theodor Wisch (1907), and Princess Maria Augusta of Saxony (1782). After him are Adolphus Frederick II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1658), Prince Adalbert of Bavaria (1886), Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg (1802), Armin T. Wegner (1886), Ferdinand Sauerbruch (1875), and Gisela of Burgundy (950).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Adolf von Henselt ranks 100. Before him are Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch (1736), Johann Ludwig Krebs (1713), Johann David Heinichen (1683), Reinhard Keiser (1674), Helmut Lachenmann (1935), and Johann Nikolaus Forkel (1749). After him are Max Richter (1966), Karl Amadeus Hartmann (1905), Herms Niel (1888), Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877), Johann Friedrich Agricola (1720), and Ferdinand David (1810).

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