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Alfrēds Kalniņš

1879 - 1951

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Alfrēds Bruno Jānis Kalniņš (23 August 1879, in Cēsis, Governorate of Livonia – 23 December 1951, in Riga, Latvian SSR) was a Latvian composer, organist, pedagogue, music critic and conductor; the founder of national Latvian opera. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alfrēds Kalniņš has received more than 24,505 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Alfrēds Kalniņš is the 1,249th most popular composer (down from 1,086th in 2019), the 165th most popular biography from Latvia (down from 124th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Latvian Composer.

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  • 46.18

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.93

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Alfrēds Kalniņš ranks 1,249 out of 1,451. Before him are Afrasiyab Badalbeyli, David Diamond, Junkie XL, Leonel Power, Sergei Slonimsky, and Camille Erlanger. After him are Dimitri Arakishvili, Ferde Grofé, Maurice Greene, Paul Creston, Artur Lemba, and Ludomir Różycki.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Alfrēds Kalniņš ranks 207. Before him are Adolf Lindfors, Othmar Ammann, Alfred Swahn, Lucile Watson, Kārlis Skalbe, and Johan Falkberget. After him are Aeneas Mackintosh, Adolf Spinnler, Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Arthur Johnson, Harry DeBaecke, and Juan Manuel Frutos. Among people deceased in 1951, Alfrēds Kalniņš ranks 149. Before him are Gaston Peltier, Urho Peltonen, Yrjö Saarela, Kim Myeong-sun, Jules Berry, and Choudhry Rahmat Ali. After him are Adolf Spinnler, Alfredo Baquerizo, Dorothea Bate, Joaquín Chapaprieta, Giovanni Scatturin, and Mayo Methot.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Alfrēds Kalniņš ranks 165 out of 323. Before him are Emīls Dārziņš (1875), Imants Kalniņš (1941), Bruno Habārovs (1939), Kārlis Skalbe (1879), Dainis Kūla (1959), and Astrid Ivask (1926). After him are Andris Nelsons (1978), Laila Freivalds (1942), Juris Upatnieks (1936), Gunnar Birkerts (1925), Atis Kronvalds (1837), and Jānis Cimze (1814).

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Among COMPOSERS In Latvia

Among composers born in Latvia, Alfrēds Kalniņš ranks 7. Before him are Raimonds Pauls (1936), Pēteris Vasks (1946), Balys Dvarionas (1904), Jāzeps Vītols (1863), Jānis Ivanovs (1906), and Emīls Dārziņš (1875). After him are Ēriks Ešenvalds (1977).

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