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Florian Schneider

1947 - 2020

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Florian Schneider-Esleben (7 April 1947 – 21 April 2020) was a German musician. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Florian Schneider has received more than 1,109,422 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Florian Schneider is the 342nd most popular musician (up from 352nd in 2019), the 1,641st most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,609th in 2019) and the 16th most popular German Musician.

Florian Schneider is most famous for being the bass player and synthesizer player for the German electronic music group, Tangerine Dream.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.24

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.26

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Florian Schneider ranks 342 out of 3,175Before him are Fred Durst, Jan Garbarek, Alicia de Larrocha, Matteo Carcassi, Leonid Kogan, and Peter Criss. After him are Robbie Robertson, Bruno Mars, George Young, Gustavo Santaolalla, Dave Murray, and Valery Gergiev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Florian Schneider ranks 124Before him are Branko Oblak, Gérard Houllier, Jan Garbarek, Rod Evans, Saskia Sassen, and Marc Bolan. After him are Noritaka Hidaka, Miguel Ángel González Suárez, Nancy Fraser, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Michael Levitt, and Adolfo Rodríguez Saá. Among people deceased in 2020, Florian Schneider ranks 101Before him are Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Shin Kyuk-ho, Stanley Ho, Ernesto Cardenal, Gérard Houllier, and Peter Green. After him are Jerry Stiller, Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, Otto Barić, Carl Reiner, Lucio Urtubia, and Miloš Jakeš.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Florian Schneider ranks 1,641 out of 7,253Before him are Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen (1925), Liudolf, Duke of Swabia (930), Fidelis of Sigmaringen (1577), Charles III William, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (1679), Johann Bernhard Basedow (1723), and Prince Frederick of the Netherlands (1797). After him are Friedrich Parrot (1791), Axel Springer (1912), Ludwig Büchner (1824), Eugen Jochum (1902), Prince Oskar of Prussia (1888), and Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock (1911).

Among MUSICIANS In Germany

Among musicians born in Germany, Florian Schneider ranks 16Before him are Wilhelm Kempff (1895), André Previn (1929), Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller (1806), Friedrich Kalkbrenner (1784), Richard Z. Kruspe (1967), and Paul Landers (1964). After him are Wilhelm Backhaus (1884), Christian Lorenz (1966), Michael Schenker (1955), Wolfgang Sawallisch (1923), Christoph Schneider (1966), and Kai Hansen (1963).