COMPOSER

Bernd Alois Zimmermann

1918 - 1970

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Bernd Alois Zimmermann (20 March 1918 – 10 August 1970) was a German composer. He is perhaps best known for his opera Die Soldaten, which is regarded as one of the most important German operas of the 20th century, after those of Berg. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bernd Alois Zimmermann has received more than 150,566 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Bernd Alois Zimmermann is the 563rd most popular composer (up from 568th in 2019), the 2,222nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,196th in 2019) and the 87th most popular German Composer.

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  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.08

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  • 1.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Bernd Alois Zimmermann ranks 563 out of 1,451. Before him are Eleni Karaindrou, Riccardo Drigo, Helmut Walcha, John Blow, Friedrich Wieck, and Philippe Herreweghe. After him are Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Pavel Haas, Ferdinando Paer, Tommaso Traetta, and Neville Marriner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Bernd Alois Zimmermann ranks 95. Before him are Sandro Puppo, Igor Ansoff, Vasyl Sukhomlynsky, Gara Garayev, Leila Mourad, and Ben Johnson. After him are Ajahn Chah, Ida Lupino, Lothar-Günther Buchheim, Lo Wei, Shankar Dayal Sharma, and Massimo Girotti. Among people deceased in 1970, Bernd Alois Zimmermann ranks 91. Before him are Toshio Iwatani, Vasyl Sukhomlynsky, Yusof Ishak, Maria Yudina, Johannes Heinrich Schultz, and Erle Stanley Gardner. After him are Pedro Eugenio Aramburu, Franz Schlegelberger, Pavel Belyayev, Abraham Zapruder, Jacques Pills, and Amadeo Bordiga.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Bernd Alois Zimmermann ranks 2,222 out of 7,253. Before him are Sigmund Rascher (1909), John George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (1627), Fritz Pfeffer (1889), Louis VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1630), Princess Mathilde Caroline of Bavaria (1813), and William, Duke of Brunswick (1806). After him are Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794), Katarina Witt (1965), Lilly Reich (1885), Hans Loritz (1895), Willi Münzenberg (1889), and C. W. Ceram (1915).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Bernd Alois Zimmermann ranks 87. Before him are Johann Christoph Bach (1671), Gershon Kingsley (1922), Hermann Abendroth (1883), Johann Crüger (1598), Helmut Walcha (1907), and Friedrich Wieck (1785). After him are Hermann Levi (1839), Georg Joseph Vogler (1749), Julius Benedict (1804), Tielman Susato (1500), Paul Lincke (1866), and Hermann Scherchen (1891).

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