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Ferdinand Hérold

1791 - 1833

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Louis Joseph Ferdinand Herold (28 January 1791 – 19 January 1833), better known as Ferdinand Hérold (pronounced [fɛʁdinɑ̃ eʁɔld]), was a French composer. He was celebrated in his lifetime for his operas, of which he composed more than twenty, but he also wrote ballet music, works for piano and choral pieces. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ferdinand Hérold has received more than 86,346 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Ferdinand Hérold is the 500th most popular composer (up from 514th in 2019), the 2,050th most popular biography from France (up from 2,111th in 2019) and the 72nd most popular French Composer.

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  • 55.95

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.75

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Ferdinand Hérold ranks 500 out of 1,216. Before him are Alexandre Tansman, Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach, Antonio de Cabezón, Albert Ketèlbey, Franz Doppler, and Thomas Arne. After him are Bruno Maderna, Antoine Busnois, Jeremiah Clarke, Joseph Hellmesberger Jr., Ethel Smyth, and Curt Sachs.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1791, Ferdinand Hérold ranks 20. Before him are István Széchenyi, Minh Mạng, Friedrich Parrot, Félix Savart, Johann Franz Encke, and Alexandros Mavrokordatos. After him are Anne Lister, Sergey Aksakov, Louis Visconti, Henryk Dembiński, Jan Václav Voříšek, and Theodor Körner. Among people deceased in 1833, Ferdinand Hérold ranks 19. Before him are Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, Michał Kleofas Ogiński, Abbas Mirza, Pierre André Latreille, Edmund Kean, and Adamantios Korais. After him are Duke Alexander of Württemberg, Antoni Radziwiłł, Rahel Varnhagen, René Louiche Desfontaines, Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel, and Banastre Tarleton.

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In France

Among people born in France, Ferdinand Hérold ranks 2,050 out of 6,011. Before him are Théodore de Banville (1823), Joseph Joubert (1754), Yvonne de Gaulle (1900), Prosper of Aquitaine (390), Maria Letizia Bonaparte, Duchess of Aosta (1866), and Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis (1746). After him are Prince Lorenz of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este (1955), Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière (1734), Antoine Busnois (1430), Blanche of France, Duchess of Austria (1278), Amédée Ozenfant (1886), and Danielle Mitterrand (1924).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Ferdinand Hérold ranks 72. Before him are Étienne Méhul (1763), Louis Durey (1888), Maurice Duruflé (1902), Florent Schmitt (1870), Franck Pourcel (1913), and Henri Duparc (1848). After him are Antoine Busnois (1430), Théodore Dubois (1837), Hervé (1825), Edgard Varèse (1883), Jean Françaix (1912), and Alexandre Guilmant (1837).

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