1879 - 1951
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 23,155 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 18 in 2019). Alfrēds Kalniņš is the 1,088th most popular composer (down from 996th in 2019), the 124th most popular biography from Latvia (down from 110th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Latvian Composer.
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Among composers, Alfrēds Kalniņš ranks 1,088 out of 1,216. Before him are Clint Mansell, Halfdan Kjerulf, Alexander Moyzes, Peter Arnold Heise, Cristóbal Halffter, and Ludwig Abeille. After him are Michel Colombier, Kōsaku Yamada, Klaus Badelt, Italo Montemezzi, Heinrich Schenker, and Peter H. Gilmore.
1963 - Present
HPI: 47.61
Rank: 1,082
1815 - 1868
HPI: 47.59
Rank: 1,083
1906 - 1984
HPI: 47.58
Rank: 1,084
1830 - 1879
HPI: 47.58
Rank: 1,085
1930 - 2021
HPI: 47.58
Rank: 1,086
1761 - 1838
HPI: 47.56
Rank: 1,087
1879 - 1951
HPI: 47.54
Rank: 1,088
1939 - 2004
HPI: 47.53
Rank: 1,089
1886 - 1965
HPI: 47.52
Rank: 1,090
1967 - Present
HPI: 47.47
Rank: 1,091
1875 - 1952
HPI: 47.47
Rank: 1,092
1868 - 1935
HPI: 47.45
Rank: 1,093
1958 - Present
HPI: 47.43
Rank: 1,094
Among people born in 1879, Alfrēds Kalniņš ranks 150. Before him are Rafael Erich, Marion Jones Farquhar, Nikolai Vissarionovich Nekrasov, Agnes Miegel, Beals Wright, and Grzegorz Fitelberg. After him are Sydney Greenstreet, Laura Hope Crews, Urban Gad, Aeneas Mackintosh, Billy Mitchell, and Bagha Jatin. Among people deceased in 1951, Alfrēds Kalniņš ranks 115. Before him are Gustave Sandras, Haj Ali Razmara, Fanny Brice, Leopold Andrian, Fritz Julius Kuhn, and Anna Tumarkin. After him are Dorothea Bate, J. C. Leyendecker, Ivor Novello, Miyamoto Yuriko, Ignaty Krachkovsky, and Nikola Mushanov.
1879 - 1946
HPI: 47.88
Rank: 144
1879 - 1965
HPI: 47.81
Rank: 145
1879 - 1940
HPI: 47.72
Rank: 146
1879 - 1964
HPI: 47.66
Rank: 147
1879 - 1961
HPI: 47.62
Rank: 148
1879 - 1953
HPI: 47.56
Rank: 149
1879 - 1951
HPI: 47.54
Rank: 150
1879 - 1954
HPI: 47.45
Rank: 151
1879 - 1942
HPI: 47.45
Rank: 152
1879 - 1947
HPI: 47.17
Rank: 153
1879 - 1916
HPI: 47.15
Rank: 154
1879 - 1936
HPI: 47.04
Rank: 155
1879 - 1915
HPI: 46.93
Rank: 156
1872 - 1951
HPI: 48.06
Rank: 109
1901 - 1951
HPI: 48.00
Rank: 110
1891 - 1951
HPI: 47.93
Rank: 111
1875 - 1951
HPI: 47.88
Rank: 112
1896 - 1951
HPI: 47.86
Rank: 113
1875 - 1951
HPI: 47.72
Rank: 114
1879 - 1951
HPI: 47.54
Rank: 115
1878 - 1951
HPI: 47.44
Rank: 116
1874 - 1951
HPI: 47.44
Rank: 117
1893 - 1951
HPI: 47.39
Rank: 118
1899 - 1951
HPI: 47.37
Rank: 119
1883 - 1951
HPI: 47.11
Rank: 120
1872 - 1951
HPI: 47.04
Rank: 121
Among people born in Latvia, Alfrēds Kalniņš ranks 124 out of 284. Before him are Jānis Krūmiņš (1930), Lūcija Garūta (1902), Jānis Daliņš (1904), Jānis Ivanovs (1906), Eliyahu Rips (1948), and Grzegorz Fitelberg (1879). After him are Regīna Ezera (1930), Imants Kalniņš (1941), Andris Bērziņš (1951), Helmuts Balderis (1952), Laima Vaikule (1954), and Andrejs Upīts (1877).
1930 - 1994
HPI: 48.19
Rank: 118
1902 - 1977
HPI: 48.15
Rank: 119
1904 - 1978
HPI: 48.03
Rank: 120
1906 - 1983
HPI: 47.85
Rank: 121
1948 - Present
HPI: 47.68
Rank: 122
1879 - 1953
HPI: 47.56
Rank: 123
1879 - 1951
HPI: 47.54
Rank: 124
1930 - 2002
HPI: 47.38
Rank: 125
1941 - Present
HPI: 47.07
Rank: 126
1951 - Present
HPI: 47.01
Rank: 127
1952 - Present
HPI: 46.97
Rank: 128
1954 - Present
HPI: 46.92
Rank: 129
1877 - 1970
HPI: 46.90
Rank: 130
Among composers born in Latvia, Alfrēds Kalniņš ranks 6. Before him are Pēteris Vasks (1946), Raimonds Pauls (1936), Jāzeps Vītols (1863), Balys Dvarionas (1904), and Jānis Ivanovs (1906). After him are Ēriks Ešenvalds (1977).
1946 - Present
HPI: 57.02
Rank: 1
1936 - Present
HPI: 56.53
Rank: 2
1863 - 1948
HPI: 49.74
Rank: 3
1904 - 1972
HPI: 49.69
Rank: 4
1906 - 1983
HPI: 47.85
Rank: 5
1879 - 1951
HPI: 47.54
Rank: 6
1977 - Present
HPI: 34.68
Rank: 7