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Charles Burney

1726 - 1814

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Charles Burney (7 April 1726 – 12 April 1814) was an English music historian, composer and musician. He was the father of the writers Frances Burney and Sarah Burney, of the explorer James Burney, and of Charles Burney, a classicist and book donor to the British Museum. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Burney has received more than 169,894 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Charles Burney is the 845th most popular composer (down from 810th in 2019), the 2,348th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,280th in 2019) and the 31st most popular British Composer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 170k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.20

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.01

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.32

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Charles Burney ranks 845 out of 1,216. Before him are La Monte Young, Nobuo Uematsu, Antonín Vranický, Anthony van Hoboken, Guy Ropartz, and Alfred Bruneau. After him are Carl Schuricht, Loyset Compère, Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský, Aribert Reimann, Selim Palmgren, and Johann Gottlieb Naumann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1726, Charles Burney ranks 14. Before him are Prince Henry of Prussia, Princess Louise of Denmark, Louise Henriette de Bourbon, Daniel Chodowiecki, Maria Teresa Felicitas d'Este, and Alexander Ypsilantis. After him are Princess Wilhelmina of Hesse-Kassel, Katsukawa Shunshō, Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe, Vasily Chichagov, Eggert Ólafsson, and Alexander Kokorinov. Among people deceased in 1814, Charles Burney ranks 26. Before him are William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe, Elbridge Gerry, Guillaume-Antoine Olivier, Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Johann Friedrich Reichardt, and Johan Tobias Sergel. After him are Jean Reynier, Évariste de Parny, Joseph Bramah, Andrey Voronikhin, August Wilhelm Iffland, and Robert Treat Paine.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Charles Burney ranks 2,348 out of 7,765. Before him are Arthur Holmes (1890), Snowy White (1948), Ian Hill (1952), Gordon Jackson (1923), Jeremy Thorpe (1929), and Brenda Milner (1918). After him are Kevin McNally (1956), William Playfair (1759), Laurence Doherty (1875), Ford Madox Ford (1873), Luke Howard (1772), and Alexander Dalrymple (1737).

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Among COMPOSERS In United Kingdom

Among composers born in United Kingdom, Charles Burney ranks 31. Before him are Malcolm Arnold (1921), Arthur Sullivan (1842), John Taverner (1490), John Bull (1562), Frank Bridge (1879), and Rebecca Clarke (1886). After him are Stanley Myers (1930), Arnold Bax (1883), John Tavener (1944), Matthew Locke (1621), Christopher Hogwood (1941), and Richard Addinsell (1904).

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