COMPOSER

Alexandre Levy

1864 - 1892

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Alexandre Levy (10 November 1864 – 17 January 1892) was a Brazilian composer, pianist and conductor. Born in São Paulo, he pioneered a fusion of classical composition with Brazil's popular folk music and rhythms. Levy died prematurely at the age of 27, and is the first known musician to die at the infamous age. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexandre Levy has received more than 358,035 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Alexandre Levy is the 1,224th most popular composer (up from 1,232nd in 2019), the 626th most popular biography from Brazil (up from 662nd in 2019) and the 10th most popular Brazilian Composer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 360k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.79

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.03

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Alexandre Levies by language

Over the past year Alexandre Levy has had the most page views in the with 35,461 views, followed by Portuguese (4,430), and Spanish (3,400). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Finnish (334.29%), Polish (190.24%), and Serbo-Croatian (46.58%)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Alexandre Levy ranks 1,224 out of 1,451. Before him are Alan Hovhaness, Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi, Alphons Czibulka, Arthur Bliss, Andrei Eshpai, and George Bruns. After him are Nicholas Hooper, Glenn Branca, Miina Härma, Elliot Goldenthal, Gavriil Popov, and Milton Babbitt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1864, Alexandre Levy ranks 152. Before him are F. C. S. Schiller, Friedrich Gustav Piffl, Eugenio Tosi, Artur Văitoianu, Elinor Glyn, and Anna Haava. After him are Toros Toramanian, Miina Härma, Reginald Dyer, Arthur Smith Woodward, Emil Kellenberger, and Alice Tegnér. Among people deceased in 1892, Alexandre Levy ranks 73. Before him are John Pope, Pashko Vasa, Amelia Edwards, Dimitrie Brătianu, Henry Edward Manning, and Jay Gould. After him are Dimitrios Valvis, Georgi Valkovich, Ernestine Rose, Joaquín Jovellar y Soler, Juana Manuela Gorriti, and Sereno Watson.

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In Brazil

Among people born in Brazil, Alexandre Levy ranks 626 out of 2,236. Before him are Alessandro Santos (1977), Áttila (1910), Luís Vinício (1932), Noronha (1918), Márcio Melo (1906), and José Paranhos, Viscount of Rio Branco (1819). After him are Edu Marangon (1963), Manoelzinho (1907), Erico Verissimo (1905), Gabriel Jesus (1997), Luiz Vinhaes (1896), and Paulo Nunes (1971).

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Among COMPOSERS In Brazil

Among composers born in Brazil, Alexandre Levy ranks 10. Before him are Egberto Gismonti (1947), Chiquinha Gonzaga (1847), Camargo Guarnieri (1907), Francisco Mignone (1897), Alberto Nepomuceno (1864), and Cláudio Santoro (1919).

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