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Frank Martin

1890 - 1974

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Frank Martin (15 September 1890 – 21 November 1974) was a Swiss composer, who spent much of his life in the Netherlands. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frank Martin has received more than 48,705 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Frank Martin is the 344th most popular composer (down from 342nd in 2019), the 134th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 130th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Swiss Composer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 49k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.42

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.51

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Frank Martins by language

Over the past year Frank Martin has had the most page views in the with 10,899 views, followed by French (6,471), and Spanish (4,858). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Hebrew (66.95%), Estonian (58.41%), and Catalan (51.16%)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Frank Martin ranks 344 out of 1,451. Before him are Giovanni Bottesini, Georg Benda, Viktor Ullmann, Johann Schein, Pietro Della Valle, and Hans Leo Hassler. After him are György Kurtág, Louis Marchand, Elmer Bernstein, Sergei Taneyev, Johann Kuhnau, and Germaine Tailleferre.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Frank Martin ranks 58. Before him are Rose Kennedy, Andriy Melnyk, Victor Serge, Prince Joachim of Prussia, Grigory Mikhaylovich Semyonov, and Kurt Tucholsky. After him are Georgy Pyatakov, Milunka Savić, Erich Kleiber, Walter Krüger, Alfredo Ottaviani, and Béla Miklós. Among people deceased in 1974, Frank Martin ranks 43. Before him are Franz Jonas, Farid al-Atrash, Hilda Gadea, Walter Brennan, Princess Irene, Duchess of Aosta, and Creighton Abrams. After him are Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, Salvador Puig Antich, René Spitz, Gino Cervi, Agnes Moorehead, and Marcel Achard.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Frank Martin ranks 134 out of 1,015. Before him are Alfonsina Storni (1892), Johann Geiler von Kaysersberg (1445), Antoine-Henri Jomini (1779), Heinrich Bullinger (1504), Mario Adorf (1930), and Emil Abderhalden (1877). After him are Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889), Marthe Keller (1945), Rodolphe Töpffer (1799), Jost Amman (1539), Marina Doria (1935), and Jacob Sprenger (1435).

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Among COMPOSERS In Switzerland

Among composers born in Switzerland, Frank Martin ranks 3. Before him are Siegfried Wagner (1869), and Sigismond Thalberg (1812). After him are Ernest Bloch (1880), Ernest Ansermet (1883), Grock (1880), Joachim Raff (1822), Pancho Vladigerov (1899), Heinz Holliger (1939), Heinrich Sutermeister (1910), Ludwig Senfl (1486), and Louis Niedermeyer (1802).

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