1796 - 1869
Johann Carl Gottfried Loewe (German: [ˈløːvə]; 30 November 1796 – 20 April 1869), usually called Carl Loewe (sometimes seen as Karl Loewe), was a German composer, tenor singer and conductor. In his lifetime, his songs ("Balladen") were well enough known for some to call him the "Schubert of North Germany", and Hugo Wolf came to admire his work. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Loewe has received more than 127,169 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Carl Loewe is the 349th most popular composer (up from 408th in 2019), the 1,354th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,530th in 2019) and the 49th most popular German Composer.
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Among composers, Carl Loewe ranks 349 out of 1,216. Before him are Leroy Anderson, Vladimir Cosma, Willem Mengelberg, Toru Takemitsu, Karl Richter, and Louis Marchand. After him are Elmer Bernstein, Luigi Dallapiccola, Johann Adam Reincken, Dimitri Tiomkin, Michel Richard Delalande, and Jan Ladislav Dussek.
1908 - 1975
HPI: 58.85
Rank: 343
1940 - Present
HPI: 58.85
Rank: 344
1871 - 1951
HPI: 58.85
Rank: 345
1930 - 1996
HPI: 58.84
Rank: 346
1926 - 1981
HPI: 58.82
Rank: 347
1669 - 1732
HPI: 58.77
Rank: 348
1796 - 1869
HPI: 58.77
Rank: 349
1922 - 2004
HPI: 58.77
Rank: 350
1904 - 1975
HPI: 58.75
Rank: 351
1643 - 1722
HPI: 58.65
Rank: 352
1894 - 1979
HPI: 58.63
Rank: 353
1657 - 1726
HPI: 58.63
Rank: 354
1760 - 1812
HPI: 58.62
Rank: 355
Among people born in 1796, Carl Loewe ranks 10. Before him are Adolphe Quetelet, Michael Thonet, Princess Charlotte of Wales, Jakob Steiner, Franz Berwald, and Caroline Amalie of Augustenburg. After him are Peter Fendi, Giovanni Pacini, Asher Brown Durand, Philipp Franz von Siebold, Princess Maria Ferdinanda of Saxony, and James Bowie. Among people deceased in 1869, Carl Loewe ranks 12. Before him are Ghalib, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Johann Friedrich Overbeck, Antoine-Henri Jomini, Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov, and Thomas Graham. After him are Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant, Hijikata Toshizō, Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Roger Fenton, Alexander Dargomyzhsky, and Carl Gustav Carus.
1796 - 1874
HPI: 65.36
Rank: 4
1796 - 1871
HPI: 64.90
Rank: 5
1796 - 1817
HPI: 62.32
Rank: 6
1796 - 1863
HPI: 61.38
Rank: 7
1796 - 1868
HPI: 59.49
Rank: 8
1796 - 1881
HPI: 58.84
Rank: 9
1796 - 1869
HPI: 58.77
Rank: 10
1796 - 1842
HPI: 57.36
Rank: 11
1796 - 1867
HPI: 57.34
Rank: 12
1796 - 1886
HPI: 56.95
Rank: 13
1796 - 1866
HPI: 56.89
Rank: 14
1796 - 1865
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 15
1796 - 1836
HPI: 56.61
Rank: 16
1797 - 1869
HPI: 65.21
Rank: 6
1804 - 1869
HPI: 63.87
Rank: 7
1789 - 1869
HPI: 60.50
Rank: 8
1779 - 1869
HPI: 58.88
Rank: 9
1787 - 1869
HPI: 58.84
Rank: 10
1805 - 1869
HPI: 58.77
Rank: 11
1796 - 1869
HPI: 58.77
Rank: 12
1859 - 1869
HPI: 58.75
Rank: 13
1835 - 1869
HPI: 58.48
Rank: 14
1822 - 1869
HPI: 58.00
Rank: 15
1819 - 1869
HPI: 57.46
Rank: 16
1813 - 1869
HPI: 57.39
Rank: 17
1789 - 1869
HPI: 57.14
Rank: 18
Among people born in Germany, Carl Loewe ranks 1,354 out of 6,142. Before him are Princess Elisabeth of Thurn and Taxis (1860), Hieronymus Wolf (1516), Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz (1721), Kurt Tucholsky (1890), Mechtilde (1241), and Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1778). After him are Wolf Vostell (1932), Louis III, Grand Duke of Hesse (1806), Sophie Magdalene of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1700), Bruno the Great (925), Adolph Wagner (1835), and Joachim Fest (1926).
1860 - 1881
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 1,348
1516 - 1580
HPI: 58.79
Rank: 1,349
1721 - 1773
HPI: 58.79
Rank: 1,350
1890 - 1935
HPI: 58.79
Rank: 1,351
1241 - 1298
HPI: 58.79
Rank: 1,352
1778 - 1841
HPI: 58.78
Rank: 1,353
1796 - 1869
HPI: 58.77
Rank: 1,354
1932 - 1998
HPI: 58.77
Rank: 1,355
1806 - 1877
HPI: 58.77
Rank: 1,356
1700 - 1770
HPI: 58.76
Rank: 1,357
925 - 965
HPI: 58.76
Rank: 1,358
1835 - 1917
HPI: 58.73
Rank: 1,359
1926 - 2006
HPI: 58.72
Rank: 1,360
Among composers born in Germany, Carl Loewe ranks 49. Before him are Nicolaus Bruhns (1665), Christian Gottlob Neefe (1748), Georg Böhm (1661), Samuel Scheidt (1587), Alfred Einstein (1880), and Karl Richter (1926). After him are Johann Kuhnau (1660), Joseph Martin Kraus (1756), Friedrich von Flotow (1812), Johann Schein (1586), Carl Heinrich Graun (1704), and Klaus Schulze (1947).
1665 - 1697
HPI: 60.08
Rank: 43
1748 - 1798
HPI: 59.82
Rank: 44
1661 - 1733
HPI: 59.69
Rank: 45
1587 - 1654
HPI: 59.14
Rank: 46
1880 - 1952
HPI: 59.03
Rank: 47
1926 - 1981
HPI: 58.82
Rank: 48
1796 - 1869
HPI: 58.77
Rank: 49
1660 - 1722
HPI: 58.58
Rank: 50
1756 - 1792
HPI: 58.54
Rank: 51
1812 - 1883
HPI: 58.51
Rank: 52
1586 - 1630
HPI: 58.35
Rank: 53
1704 - 1759
HPI: 58.09
Rank: 54
1947 - 2022
HPI: 58.07
Rank: 55