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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 179,129 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Burney is the 864th most popular composer (down from 844th in 2019), the 2,373rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,342nd in 2019) and the 32nd most popular British Composer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 180k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.11

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.17

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.27

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Charles Burney ranks 864 out of 1,451. Before him are Déodat de Séverac, Friedrich Kiel, Allan Pettersson, Aribert Reimann, Giovanni Artusi, and Emanuele d'Astorga. After him are Nikolai Tcherepnin, Filippo Marchetti, Vítězslava Kaprálová, Antonín Vranický, August Enna, and Valentino Fioravanti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1726, Charles Burney ranks 14. Before him are Prince Henry of Prussia, Louise Henriette de Bourbon, Princess Louise of Denmark, Alexander Ypsilantis, Daniel Chodowiecki, and Maria Teresa Felicitas d'Este. After him are Princess Wilhelmina of Hesse-Kassel, Katsukawa Shunshō, Gabriel François Doyen, Alexander Kokorinov, Eggert Ólafsson, and Jovan Rajić. Among people deceased in 1814, Charles Burney ranks 25. Before him are Louis François Joseph, Prince of Conti, William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe, Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto, Emich Carl, 2nd Prince of Leiningen, Johan Tobias Sergel, and Johann Friedrich Reichardt. After him are Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Évariste de Parny, Jean Reynier, August Wilhelm Iffland, Andrey Voronikhin, and Joseph Bramah.

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Others Deceased in 1814

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Charles Burney ranks 2,373 out of 8,785. Before him are Kelly Brook (1979), June Almeida (1930), Sarah Siddons (1755), Jock Stein (1922), John of Eltham, Earl of Cornwall (1316), and Patrick Troughton (1920). After him are James Nasmyth (1808), Ray Cooney (1932), Margaret of Scotland, Queen of Norway (1261), Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset (1406), Ælfgifu of Northampton (990), and Abhisit Vejjajiva (1964).

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Among COMPOSERS In United Kingdom

Among composers born in United Kingdom, Charles Burney ranks 32. Before him are John Bull (1562), Arthur Sullivan (1842), Arnold Bax (1883), Frank Bridge (1879), John Taverner (1490), and Stanley Myers (1930). After him are Harry Gregson-Williams (1961), John Tavener (1944), Matthew Locke (1621), John Rutter (1945), Hamilton Harty (1879), and Rebecca Clarke (1886).

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