COMPOSER

Benjamin Britten

1913 - 1976

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Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British music, with a range of works including opera, other vocal music, orchestral and chamber pieces. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Benjamin Britten has received more than 2,496,070 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 61 in 2019). Benjamin Britten is the 128th most popular composer (down from 103rd in 2019), the 341st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 275th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular British Composer.

Benjamin Britten is most famous for his opera Peter Grimes.

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  • 2.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 67.06

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 62

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.08

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.18

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Benjamin Britten ranks 128 out of 1,451. Before him are Josef Strauss, Emmerich Kálmán, Max Bruch, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Mikhail Glinka, and Daniel Auber. After him are Carl Nielsen, Maurice Jarre, Domenico Cimarosa, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Johannes Ockeghem, and Giovanni Gabrieli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Benjamin Britten ranks 21. Before him are Burt Lancaster, Ramón Mercader, Paul Ricœur, Willis Lamb, Makarios III, and Sabiha Gökçen. After him are Kenzō Tange, Lon Nol, Roger Garaudy, Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona, Paul Erdős, and Silvio Piola. Among people deceased in 1976, Benjamin Britten ranks 21. Before him are Ulrike Meinhof, Man Ray, J. Paul Getty, Joachim Peiper, Jacques Monod, and Eyvind Johnson. After him are Knud, Hereditary Prince of Denmark, Leopold Ružička, Zhu De, Raymond Queneau, Choe Yong-gon, and Trofim Lysenko.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Benjamin Britten ranks 341 out of 8,785. Before him are Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg (1887), Norman Haworth (1883), Margaret Tudor (1489), Ecgberht, King of Wessex (800), Ian McShane (1942), and William Baffin (1584). After him are John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650), David Beckham (1975), Malcolm McDowell (1943), Chaim Herzog (1918), Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828), and William Henry Bragg (1862).

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Among COMPOSERS In United Kingdom

Among composers born in United Kingdom, Benjamin Britten ranks 3. Before him are Edward Elgar (1857), and Henry Purcell (1659). After him are John Barry (1933), Gustav Holst (1874), William Byrd (1543), Keith Emerson (1944), Eugen d'Albert (1864), Thomas Tallis (1502), Andrew Lloyd Webber (1948), John Dunstaple (1390), and Michael Nyman (1944).

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