1726 - 1814
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.
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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.
1935 - Present
HPI: 51.27
Rank: 839
1959 - Present
HPI: 51.27
Rank: 840
1761 - 1820
HPI: 51.25
Rank: 841
1887 - 1983
HPI: 51.24
Rank: 842
1864 - 1955
HPI: 51.22
Rank: 843
1857 - 1934
HPI: 51.21
Rank: 844
1726 - 1814
HPI: 51.20
Rank: 845
1880 - 1967
HPI: 51.19
Rank: 846
1440 - 1518
HPI: 51.17
Rank: 847
1684 - 1742
HPI: 51.17
Rank: 848
1936 - Present
HPI: 51.16
Rank: 849
1878 - 1951
HPI: 51.15
Rank: 850
1741 - 1801
HPI: 51.14
Rank: 851
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.
1726 - 1802
HPI: 58.32
Rank: 8
1726 - 1756
HPI: 55.59
Rank: 9
1726 - 1759
HPI: 54.38
Rank: 10
1726 - 1801
HPI: 53.21
Rank: 11
1726 - 1754
HPI: 52.60
Rank: 12
1726 - 1807
HPI: 52.20
Rank: 13
1726 - 1814
HPI: 51.20
Rank: 14
1726 - 1808
HPI: 50.59
Rank: 15
1726 - 1793
HPI: 50.17
Rank: 16
1726 - 1799
HPI: 48.17
Rank: 17
1726 - 1809
HPI: 47.58
Rank: 18
1726 - 1768
HPI: 47.37
Rank: 19
1726 - 1772
HPI: 43.45
Rank: 20
1729 - 1814
HPI: 53.57
Rank: 20
1744 - 1814
HPI: 53.48
Rank: 21
1756 - 1814
HPI: 52.51
Rank: 22
1769 - 1814
HPI: 52.02
Rank: 23
1752 - 1814
HPI: 51.95
Rank: 24
1740 - 1814
HPI: 51.21
Rank: 25
1726 - 1814
HPI: 51.20
Rank: 26
1771 - 1814
HPI: 50.76
Rank: 27
1753 - 1814
HPI: 49.90
Rank: 28
1748 - 1814
HPI: 48.22
Rank: 29
1759 - 1814
HPI: 48.00
Rank: 30
1759 - 1814
HPI: 47.08
Rank: 31
1731 - 1814
HPI: 38.73
Rank: 32
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).
1890 - 1965
HPI: 51.22
Rank: 2,342
1948 - Present
HPI: 51.22
Rank: 2,343
1952 - Present
HPI: 51.21
Rank: 2,344
1923 - 1990
HPI: 51.21
Rank: 2,345
1929 - 2014
HPI: 51.20
Rank: 2,346
1918 - Present
HPI: 51.20
Rank: 2,347
1726 - 1814
HPI: 51.20
Rank: 2,348
1956 - Present
HPI: 51.17
Rank: 2,349
1759 - 1823
HPI: 51.17
Rank: 2,350
1875 - 1919
HPI: 51.17
Rank: 2,351
1873 - 1939
HPI: 51.16
Rank: 2,352
1772 - 1864
HPI: 51.16
Rank: 2,353
1737 - 1808
HPI: 51.16
Rank: 2,354
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).
1921 - 2006
HPI: 53.73
Rank: 25
1842 - 1900
HPI: 52.68
Rank: 26
1490 - 1545
HPI: 52.37
Rank: 27
1562 - 1628
HPI: 52.14
Rank: 28
1879 - 1941
HPI: 51.58
Rank: 29
1886 - 1979
HPI: 51.50
Rank: 30
1726 - 1814
HPI: 51.20
Rank: 31
1930 - 1993
HPI: 51.14
Rank: 32
1883 - 1953
HPI: 50.40
Rank: 33
1944 - 2013
HPI: 50.40
Rank: 34
1621 - 1677
HPI: 50.34
Rank: 35
1941 - 2014
HPI: 50.30
Rank: 36
1904 - 1977
HPI: 50.21
Rank: 37