1709 - 1770
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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Among composers, Charles Avison ranks 1,065 out of 1,216. Before 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.
1911 - 1989
HPI: 48.01
Rank: 1,059
1896 - 1967
HPI: 48.00
Rank: 1,060
1913 - 1996
HPI: 47.96
Rank: 1,061
1929 - 1994
HPI: 47.95
Rank: 1,062
1951 - 2021
HPI: 47.93
Rank: 1,063
1896 - 1985
HPI: 47.92
Rank: 1,064
1709 - 1770
HPI: 47.91
Rank: 1,065
1947 - Present
HPI: 47.90
Rank: 1,066
1961 - Present
HPI: 47.90
Rank: 1,067
1944 - Present
HPI: 47.89
Rank: 1,068
1795 - 1872
HPI: 47.87
Rank: 1,069
1906 - 1983
HPI: 47.85
Rank: 1,070
1883 - 1918
HPI: 47.84
Rank: 1,071
Among people born in 1709, Charles Avison ranks 23. Before 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 14. Before 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.
1709 - 1788
HPI: 53.86
Rank: 17
1709 - 1789
HPI: 53.55
Rank: 18
1709 - 1767
HPI: 52.90
Rank: 19
1709 - 1770
HPI: 50.44
Rank: 20
1709 - 1794
HPI: 50.43
Rank: 21
1709 - 1729
HPI: 49.08
Rank: 22
1709 - 1770
HPI: 47.91
Rank: 23
1709 - 1777
HPI: 47.68
Rank: 24
1710 - 1770
HPI: 57.28
Rank: 8
1700 - 1770
HPI: 56.43
Rank: 9
1714 - 1770
HPI: 54.10
Rank: 10
1692 - 1770
HPI: 53.71
Rank: 11
1712 - 1770
HPI: 53.69
Rank: 12
1709 - 1770
HPI: 50.44
Rank: 13
1709 - 1770
HPI: 47.91
Rank: 14
1708 - 1770
HPI: 46.95
Rank: 15
Among people born in United Kingdom, Charles Avison ranks 3,133 out of 7,765. Before 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).
1888 - 1977
HPI: 47.93
Rank: 3,127
1872 - 1933
HPI: 47.93
Rank: 3,128
1756 - 1823
HPI: 47.92
Rank: 3,129
1911 - 1964
HPI: 47.92
Rank: 3,130
1823 - 1908
HPI: 47.92
Rank: 3,131
1830 - 1882
HPI: 47.92
Rank: 3,132
1709 - 1770
HPI: 47.91
Rank: 3,133
1888 - 1938
HPI: 47.91
Rank: 3,134
1936 - 2013
HPI: 47.91
Rank: 3,135
1910 - 1999
HPI: 47.89
Rank: 3,136
1909 - 1973
HPI: 47.89
Rank: 3,137
1798 - 1835
HPI: 47.89
Rank: 3,138
1952 - 2020
HPI: 47.89
Rank: 3,139
Among composers born in United Kingdom, Charles Avison ranks 45. Before 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).
1961 - Present
HPI: 49.76
Rank: 39
1945 - Present
HPI: 49.42
Rank: 40
1848 - 1918
HPI: 49.16
Rank: 41
1879 - 1970
HPI: 48.77
Rank: 42
1905 - 1998
HPI: 48.32
Rank: 43
1602 - 1645
HPI: 48.24
Rank: 44
1709 - 1770
HPI: 47.91
Rank: 45
1963 - Present
HPI: 47.61
Rank: 46
1893 - 1951
HPI: 47.39
Rank: 47
1786 - 1855
HPI: 47.35
Rank: 48
1943 - Present
HPI: 47.32
Rank: 49
1943 - Present
HPI: 46.94
Rank: 50
1756 - 1778
HPI: 46.60
Rank: 51