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Charles Avison

1709 - 1770

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Charles Avison (; 16 February 1709 (baptised) – 9 or 10 May 1770) was an English composer during the Baroque and Classical periods. He was a church organist at St John The Baptist Church in Newcastle and at St. Nicholas's Church (later Newcastle Cathedral). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Avison has received more than 93,845 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Charles Avison is the 1,065th most popular composer (down from 997th in 2019), the 3,133rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,029th in 2019) and the 45th most popular British Composer.

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  • 94k

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  • 47.91

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.66

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  • 2.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Charles Avison ranks 1,065 out of 1,216Before him are Ján Cikker, Jaromír Weinberger, Morton Gould, Avet Terterian, Sanja Ilić, and Roger Sessions. After him are Tristan Murail, Koji Kondo, William Christie, Nikolaos Mantzaros, Jānis Ivanovs, and Toivo Kuula.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1709, Charles Avison ranks 23Before him are Giovanni Domenico Maraldi, John Cleland, Étienne de Silhouette, Francesco Araja, Antonio Rinaldi, and Ernst Ludwig II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen. After him is Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset. Among people deceased in 1770, Charles Avison ranks 14Before him are Marie-Anne de Cupis de Camargo, Jean-Antoine Nollet, George Whitefield, James Stirling, George Grenville, and Francesco Araja. After him is Georg Dionysius Ehret.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Charles Avison ranks 3,133 out of 7,765Before him are Paul Bernays (1888), John Arthur Jarvis (1872), Henry Raeburn (1756), Reg Parnell (1911), John Evans (1823), and Charles Wyville Thomson (1830). After him are Grey Owl (1888), Dave Charlton (1936), Charles Crichton (1910), David Murray (1909), Alexander McDonnell (1798), and John D. Barrow (1952).

Among COMPOSERS In United Kingdom

Among composers born in United Kingdom, Charles Avison ranks 45Before him are Harry Gregson-Williams (1961), John Rutter (1945), Hubert Parry (1848), Cyril Scott (1879), Michael Tippett (1905), and William Lawes (1602). After him are Clint Mansell (1963), Ivor Novello (1893), Henry Bishop (1786), Brian Ferneyhough (1943), Gavin Bryars (1943), and Thomas Linley the younger (1756).