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Aribert Reimann

1936 - 2024

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Aribert Reimann (German: ['aʁiːbɛʁt 'ʁaɪman] , 4 March 1936 – 13 March 2024) was a German composer, pianist, and accompanist, known especially for his literary operas. His version of Shakespeare's King Lear, the opera Lear, was written at the suggestion of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, who performed the title role. His opera Medea after Grillparzer's play premiered in 2010 at the Vienna State Opera. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Aribert Reimann has received more than 107,610 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Aribert Reimann is the 861st most popular composer (down from 848th in 2019), the 3,410th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,160th in 2019) and the 137th most popular German Composer.

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  • 58.69

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.96

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.89

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Aribert Reimann ranks 861 out of 1,451. Before him are Turlough O'Carolan, Robert Volkmann, Alberto Iglesias, Déodat de Séverac, Friedrich Kiel, and Allan Pettersson. After him are Giovanni Artusi, Emanuele d'Astorga, Charles Burney, Nikolai Tcherepnin, Filippo Marchetti, and Vítězslava Kaprálová.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Aribert Reimann ranks 245. Before him are Joe E. Tata, Im Kwon-taek, Ivonka Survilla, José Policarpo, Lino Banfi, and Birthe Wilke. After him are Frank Serpico, Stanislav Govorukhin, Toralf Engan, Carla Fracci, W. D. Hamilton, and Edvard Radzinsky. Among people deceased in 2024, Aribert Reimann ranks 211. Before him are Rebecca Horn, Kelvin Felix, Chita Rivera, Gediminas Kirkilas, Jean Petit, and Nabil Elaraby. After him are Frédéric Mitterrand, William Calley, Jesse Jane, Eric Carmen, Vladimir Aksyonov, and Tony Todd.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Aribert Reimann ranks 3,410 out of 7,253. Before him are Gustav Adolph, Duke of Mecklenburg-Güstrow (1633), Pavle Jurišić Šturm (1848), Hillel Furstenberg (1935), Caesarius of Heisterbach (1180), Curt von Bardeleben (1861), and Kurt Moll (1938). After him are Peter Winter (1754), Karl Wittgenstein (1847), Emil Rathenau (1838), Albertus Pictor (1440), Otto Hölder (1859), and Caspar Peucer (1525).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Aribert Reimann ranks 137. Before him are Princess Amalie of Saxony (1794), Ramin Djawadi (1974), Franz Anton Hoffmeister (1754), Heinrich Bach (1615), Werner Egk (1901), and Robert Volkmann (1815). After him are Franz Tunder (1614), Paul Dessau (1894), Hans von Koessler (1853), Johann Jacob Bach (1682), Johann Walter (1496), and Heinrich Albert (1604).

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