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Alexander Agricola

1446 - 1506

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Alexander Agricola (; born Alexander Ackerman; c. 1446 – 15 August 1506) was a Netherlandish composer of the Renaissance writing in the Franco-Flemish style. A prominent member of the Grande chapelle, the Habsburg musical establishment, he was a renowned composer in the years around 1500, and his music was widely distributed throughout Europe. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Agricola has received more than 86,459 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Agricola is the 416th most popular composer (up from 442nd in 2019), the 205th most popular biography from Belgium (up from 213th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Belgian Composer.

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  • 58.12

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.11

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Alexander Agricola ranks 416 out of 1,451. Before him are Luigi Dallapiccola, Stefano Landi, Ernest Bloch, Giovanni Legrenzi, Franz Schmidt, and Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe. After him are Georg Muffat, Johan Svendsen, André Jolivet, Giuseppe Sammartini, James Newton Howard, and Ferdinand Ries.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1446, Alexander Agricola ranks 4. Before him are Pietro Perugino, Margaret of York, and Charles of Valois, Duke of Berry. After him are Ippolita Maria Sforza, Francesco Botticini, and Charles IV of Anjou. Among people deceased in 1506, Alexander Agricola ranks 9. Before him are Philip I of Castile, Yeonsangun of Joseon, Alexander Jagiellon, Anne of Foix-Candale, Sultan Husayn Bayqara, and Sesshū Tōyō. After him are Beatriz, Duchess of Viseu, Sancha of Aragon, João I of Kongo, and Robert Henryson.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Alexander Agricola ranks 205 out of 1,190. Before him are Hugo Claus (1929), Herbert Wimmer (1944), Raymond Goethals (1921), Jan Ceulemans (1957), Rik Van Looy (1933), and Thibaut Courtois (1992). After him are Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence (1338), Melchior Broederlam (1355), Ambrosius Bosschaert (1573), Henry II, Duke of Brabant (1207), Roger De Vlaeminck (1947), and Eugène Joseph Delporte (1882).

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Among COMPOSERS In Belgium

Among composers born in Belgium, Alexander Agricola ranks 15. Before him are Gilles Binchois (1400), Henri Vieuxtemps (1820), Pierre De Geyter (1848), Heinrich Isaac (1450), Cipriano de Rore (1515), and Jacques Arcadelt (1507). After him are Johannes Tinctoris (1435), Pierre de la Rue (1460), Jean Absil (1893), Charles Auguste de Bériot (1802), Guillaume Lekeu (1870), and François-Joseph Fétis (1784).

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