COMPOSER

Bernhard Crusell

1775 - 1838

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Bernhard Henrik Crusell (15 October 1775 – 28 July 1838) was a Swedish-Finnish clarinetist, composer and translator, "the most significant and internationally best-known Finnish-born classical composer and indeed, – the outstanding Finnish composer before Sibelius". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bernhard Crusell has received more than 101,966 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Bernhard Crusell is the 453rd most popular composer (down from 450th in 2019), the 63rd most popular biography from Finland (down from 59th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Finnish Composer.

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  • 100k

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  • 63.37

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.72

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.66

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Bernhard Crusell ranks 453 out of 1,451. Before him are Joseph Martin Kraus, Pēteris Vasks, Johann Ludwig Bach, Leroy Anderson, Pierre de la Rue, and Moritz Moszkowski. After him are Emilio de' Cavalieri, Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Christoph Graupner, Johann Gottfried Walther, Franck Pourcel, and Georgy Sviridov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1775, Bernhard Crusell ranks 21. Before him are Étienne-Louis Malus, Matthew Lewis, Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle, Farkas Bolyai, Teréz Brunszvik, and Camillo Borghese, 6th Prince of Sulmona. After him are Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger, Manuel García, Conrad Malte-Brun, Antoni Radziwiłł, Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, and Louisa Adams. Among people deceased in 1838, Bernhard Crusell ranks 12. Before him are Bernard Courtois, Ivan Kotliarevsky, Maximilian, Hereditary Prince of Saxony, Pierre Louis Dulong, Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy, and Ferdinand Ries. After him are Hussein Dey, Johann Nepomuk Maelzel, René Caillié, Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest, Heinrich Marx, and José Bonifácio de Andrada.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Bernhard Crusell ranks 63 out of 751. Before him are Lasse Virén (1949), Wäinö Aaltonen (1894), Eino Leino (1878), Bengt Holmström (1949), Tarja Turunen (1977), and Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt (1757). After him are Väinö Linna (1920), Mika Kaurismäki (1955), Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928), Kaija Saariaho (1952), Jaakko Hintikka (1929), and Eero Aarnio (1932).

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Among COMPOSERS In Finland

Among composers born in Finland, Bernhard Crusell ranks 2. Before him are Jean Sibelius (1865). After him are Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928), Kaija Saariaho (1952), Oskar Merikanto (1868), Selim Palmgren (1878), Martin Wegelius (1846), Erkki Aaltonen (1910), Leevi Madetoja (1887), Kalevi Aho (1949), Toivo Kuula (1883), and Joonas Kokkonen (1921).

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