COMPOSER

Arthur Sullivan

1842 - 1900

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Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan (13 May 1842 – 22 November 1900) was an English composer. He is best known for 14 operatic collaborations with the dramatist W. S. Gilbert, including H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado. His works include 24 operas, 11 major orchestral works, ten choral works and oratorios, two ballets, incidental music to several plays, and numerous church pieces, songs, and piano and chamber pieces. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arthur Sullivan has received more than 1,263,050 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Arthur Sullivan is the 733rd most popular composer (down from 722nd in 2019), the 2,062nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,030th in 2019) and the 27th most popular British Composer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.95

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.29

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Arthur Sullivan ranks 733 out of 1,451. Before him are Paul Wranitzky, Domenico Gabrielli, Matthias Weckmann, Paul Ben-Haim, Johann Gottlieb Naumann, and Rued Langgaard. After him are Matvey Blanter, Hans Rott, Charles Tournemire, Petrus de Cruce, Goffredo Petrassi, and Luigi Denza.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1842, Arthur Sullivan ranks 54. Before him are Ernest, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld, Carl Zeller, Mahadev Govind Ranade, Eloy Alfaro, Maurice Rouvier, and Carl Millöcker. After him are Prince Alfred of Liechtenstein, Emil Christian Hansen, Antonio Fogazzaro, Jan Puzyna de Kosielsko, Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ, and Alessandro Fortis. Among people deceased in 1900, Arthur Sullivan ranks 48. Before him are Sergei Korsakoff, Elwin Bruno Christoffel, Eugenio Beltrami, Peter Waage, Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann, and Wilhelm Leibl. After him are Peter II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg, Arsenio Martínez Campos, Félix Ravaisson-Mollien, Catherine Wolfe Bruce, Piet Joubert, and Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Arthur Sullivan ranks 2,062 out of 8,785. Before him are William Paley (1743), Prince Arthur of Connaught (1883), Tim Hunt (1943), Rick Parfitt (1948), Thomas Gray (1716), and Samuel Frederick Gray (1766). After him are Ronald Speirs (1920), Thomas Kyd (1558), Samuel Smiles (1812), Joseph Butler (1692), Tom Courtenay (1937), and Edward Balliol (1283).

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Among COMPOSERS In United Kingdom

Among composers born in United Kingdom, Arthur Sullivan ranks 27. Before him are Pasquale Anfossi (1727), Malcolm Arnold (1921), Jeremiah Clarke (1674), Orlando Gibbons (1583), William Boyce (1711), and John Bull (1562). After him are Arnold Bax (1883), Frank Bridge (1879), John Taverner (1490), Stanley Myers (1930), Charles Burney (1726), and Harry Gregson-Williams (1961).

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