COMPOSER

Ferdinand Ries

1784 - 1838

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Ferdinand Ries (baptised 28 November 1784 – 13 January 1838) was a German composer. Ries was a friend, pupil and secretary of Ludwig van Beethoven. He composed eight symphonies, a violin concerto, nine piano concertos (the first concerto is not published), three operas, and numerous other works, including 26 string quartets. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ferdinand Ries has received more than 181,272 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Ferdinand Ries is the 422nd most popular composer (down from 390th in 2019), the 1,682nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,531st in 2019) and the 61st most popular German Composer.

Ferdinand Ries is most famous for being the first person to write a biography of Beethoven in 1838.

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  • 180k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.00

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.15

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.02

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Ferdinand Ries ranks 422 out of 1,451. Before him are Alexander Agricola, Georg Muffat, Johan Svendsen, André Jolivet, Giuseppe Sammartini, and James Newton Howard. After him are Étienne Méhul, Princess Maria Antonia Koháry, Nikolai Medtner, Józef Elsner, Ernest Ansermet, and Raimonds Pauls.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1784, Ferdinand Ries ranks 21. Before him are François Rude, Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel, Friedrich Kalkbrenner, Peter von Cornelius, Duchess Charlotte Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Moses Montefiore. After him are George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Fructuoso Rivera, Dionisio Aguado y García, François-Joseph Fétis, Thomas Robert Bugeaud, and Friedrich Graf von Wrangel. Among people deceased in 1838, Ferdinand Ries ranks 11. Before him are Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, Bernard Courtois, Ivan Kotliarevsky, Maximilian, Hereditary Prince of Saxony, Pierre Louis Dulong, and Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy. After him are Bernhard Crusell, Hussein Dey, Johann Nepomuk Maelzel, René Caillié, Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest, and Heinrich Marx.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ferdinand Ries ranks 1,682 out of 7,253. Before him are Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia (1730), Louis Rudolph, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1671), Otto Sander (1941), August Sander (1876), Hemma (800), and Hans Langsdorff (1894). After him are George William, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1624), Louis III, Grand Duke of Hesse (1806), Princess Alexandrine of Baden (1820), Archduchess Maria Anna Josepha of Austria (1654), Princess Vilhelmine Marie of Denmark (1808), and Hans-Hermann Hoppe (1949).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Ferdinand Ries ranks 61. Before him are Wolfgang Wagner (1919), Carl Heinrich Graun (1704), Johann Georg Pisendel (1687), Nicolaus Bruhns (1665), Carl Loewe (1796), and Alfred Einstein (1880). After him are Princess Philippine Charlotte of Prussia (1716), Hans Werner Henze (1926), Heinrich Marschner (1795), Friedrich von Flotow (1812), Ferdinand Hiller (1811), and Joseph Martin Kraus (1756).

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