COMPOSER

Franck Pourcel

1913 - 2000

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Franck Pourcel (14 August 1913 – 12 November 2000) was a French composer, arranger, and conductor of popular and classical music. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Franck Pourcel has received more than 165,816 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Franck Pourcel is the 458th most popular composer (up from 465th in 2019), the 1,975th most popular biography from France (down from 1,918th in 2019) and the 68th most popular French Composer.

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  • 170k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.35

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.58

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.27

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Franck Pourcel ranks 458 out of 1,451Before him are Moritz Moszkowski, Bernhard Crusell, Emilio de' Cavalieri, Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Christoph Graupner, and Johann Gottfried Walther. After him are Georgy Sviridov, Hans Pfitzner, Mélanie Bonis, Gaspar Sanz, Giovanni Pacini, and Antonio Maria Abbatini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Franck Pourcel ranks 92Before him are Haxhi Lleshi, Alexander Pokryshkin, Pinetop Perkins, Heinz Kohut, Pierre Werner, and Mary Leakey. After him are Alexander Marinesko, Willi Hennig, Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark, Georgy Flyorov, Álvaro Cunhal, and Lucien Goldmann. Among people deceased in 2000, Franck Pourcel ranks 73Before him are Don Budge, Kemal Sunal, Barbara Cartland, Maurice Richard, Pierre Plantard, and Baden Powell. After him are Ahmet Kaya, Claude Sautet, Ivan Stambolić, Fulcanelli, Libertad Lamarque, and Andy Hug.

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In France

Among people born in France, Franck Pourcel ranks 1,975 out of 6,770Before him are Richard, Duke of Burgundy (858), Peter the Venerable (1092), Pierre Plantard (1920), Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu (1750), Adrien Manglard (1695), and Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (1817). After him are Ermesinde of Carcassonne (972), Jean Djorkaeff (1939), Yves Bonnefoy (1923), Charles-Eugène Delaunay (1816), Hervé Renard (1968), and Philippe Honoré (1941).

Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Franck Pourcel ranks 68Before him are Jacques-Martin Hotteterre (1673), Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe (1640), Georg Muffat (1653), André Jolivet (1905), Étienne Méhul (1763), and Louis Durey (1888). After him are Mélanie Bonis (1858), Antoine Busnois (1430), Théodore Dubois (1837), Louis-Nicolas Clérambault (1676), Maurice Duruflé (1902), and Florent Schmitt (1870).