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Charles-Marie Widor

1844 - 1937

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Charles-Marie-Jean-Albert Widor (21 February 1844 – 12 March 1937) was a French organist, composer and teacher of the late Romantic era. As a composer he is known for his ten organ symphonies, especially the toccata of his fifth organ symphony, which is frequently played as recessional music at weddings and other celebrations.As of 2022, he is the longest-serving organist of Saint-Sulpice in Paris, a role he held for 63 years (January 1870 – 31 December 1933). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles-Marie Widor has received more than 283,006 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Charles-Marie Widor is the 238th most popular composer (down from 218th in 2019), the 1,083rd most popular biography from France (down from 1,001st in 2019) and the 36th most popular French Composer.

Charles-Marie Widor is most famous for his Symphonic Poem, "Organ Symphony."

Memorability Metrics

  • 280k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 62.11

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Charles-Marie Widor has had the most page views in the with 34,516 views, followed by German (11,277), and French (10,780). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Chinese (446.11%), Ido (132.53%), and Latin (122.60%)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Charles-Marie Widor ranks 238 out of 1,451. Before him are Luigi Nono, William Byrd, Mykola Leontovych, Antonio Caldara, Stanisław Moniuszko, and Benedetto Marcello. After him are Johan Halvorsen, Johann Adolph Hasse, Henryk Górecki, Duchess Maria Antonia of Bavaria, Albert Roussel, and Alfred Schnittke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1844, Charles-Marie Widor ranks 24. Before him are Pablo de Sarasate, Menelik II, Muhammad Ahmad, Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Friedrich Miescher, and Ismail Qemali. After him are Karl Lueger, `Abdu'l-Bahá, Abdur Rahman Khan, Julius Wellhausen, Adolf Engler, and Charles-Émile Reynaud. Among people deceased in 1937, Charles-Marie Widor ranks 31. Before him are Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark, Karol Szymanowski, Ramsay MacDonald, Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, Emilio Mola, and Frank B. Kellogg. After him are Keke Geladze, Jagadish Chandra Bose, Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse, Albert Roussel, Edith Wharton, and Pavel Florensky.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles-Marie Widor ranks 1,083 out of 6,770. Before him are Theudebert II (585), Desireless (1952), Johannes Tauler (1300), Christine of France (1606), Elliott Erwitt (1928), and Jean-Marc Nattier (1685). After him are Abel Gance (1889), Jean-Paul Gaultier (1952), Adelaide of Aquitaine (950), Marion Cotillard (1975), Jean-Claude Trichet (1942), and Étienne-Jules Marey (1830).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Charles-Marie Widor ranks 36. Before him are Léonin (1135), Francis Lai (1932), Philippe de Vitry (1291), Pauline Viardot (1821), Lili Boulanger (1893), and Ernest Chausson (1855). After him are Albert Roussel (1869), Pierre Schaeffer (1910), Jacques Ibert (1890), Ambroise Thomas (1811), Emmanuel Chabrier (1841), and Marcel Dupré (1886).

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