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Andrzej Panufnik

1914 - 1991

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Sir Andrzej Panufnik (24 September 1914 – 27 October 1991) was a Polish composer and conductor. He became established as one of the leading Polish composers, and as a conductor he was instrumental in the re-establishment of the Warsaw Philharmonic orchestra after World War II. After his increasing frustration with the extra-musical demands made on him by the country's regime, he defected to the United Kingdom in 1954, and took up British citizenship. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Andrzej Panufnik has received more than 122,793 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Andrzej Panufnik is the 818th most popular composer (down from 769th in 2019), the 654th most popular biography from Poland (down from 604th in 2019) and the 24th most popular Polish Composer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.37

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Andrzej Panufnik ranks 818 out of 1,216. Before him are Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély, Aimeric de Peguilhan, Nicola Fago, Charles Villiers Stanford, Jan Václav Voříšek, and Heino Eller. After him are Frank Bridge, Johann Jacob Bach, Claude Le Jeune, Henri Tomasi, Juventino Rosas, and Rebecca Clarke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Andrzej Panufnik ranks 157. Before him are Norman McLaren, Poul Hartling, Henri Langlois, Jorge Bolet, Gyula Cseszneky, and Albert Soboul. After him are Haroun Tazieff, Arno Schmidt, Sándor Képíró, Alojs Andritzki, Eddie Chapman, and Paul Rand. Among people deceased in 1991, Andrzej Panufnik ranks 112. Before him are Miodrag Bulatović, Ho Jong-suk, Amadou Hampâté Bâ, John King Fairbank, Dead, and Mario Scelba. After him are Abderrahmane Farès, Vilma Bánky, Louis Seigner, Roy Black, Hitoshi Igarashi, and Mort Shuman.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Andrzej Panufnik ranks 654 out of 1,454. Before him are Ernst Wiechert (1887), Zeev Sternhell (1935), Joseph Serchuk (1919), Adam Michnik (1946), Wincenty Witos (1874), and Duke William Frederick Philip of Württemberg (1761). After him are Haroun Tazieff (1914), Jacob Heinrich von Flemming (1667), Julian Marchlewski (1866), Karl Otfried Müller (1797), Sophia Jagiellon, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1522), and Walther Wever (1887).

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Among COMPOSERS In Poland

Among composers born in Poland, Andrzej Panufnik ranks 24. Before him are Johann Gottlieb Goldberg (1727), Wolfgang Schmieder (1901), Krzysztof Komeda (1931), Josef Tal (1910), Karol Lipiński (1790), and Johann Schobert (1720). After him are Carl Schuricht (1880), Arnold Mendelssohn (1855), Karol Kurpiński (1785), Zygmunt Noskowski (1846), Władysław Żeleński (1837), and Oskar Kolberg (1814).

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