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Franz Abt

1819 - 1885

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Franz Wilhelm Abt (22 December 1819 – 31 March 1885) was a German composer and choral conductor. He composed roughly 3,000 individual works mostly in the area of vocal music. Several of his songs were at one time universally sung, and have obtained a more or less permanent place in the popular repertory. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Franz Abt has received more than 59,893 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Franz Abt is the 496th most popular composer (up from 614th in 2019), the 1,933rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,366th in 2019) and the 76th most popular German Composer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 60k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.90

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Franz Abt ranks 496 out of 1,451. Before him are Giuseppe Sarti, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Johann Adam Hiller, Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Antonio de Cabezón, and Gian Francesco Malipiero. After him are Erwin Schulhoff, Kaija Saariaho, Agostino Steffani, John Adams, Guillaume Lekeu, and Vasily Kalinnikov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1819, Franz Abt ranks 37. Before him are Elias Howe, Abner Doubleday, Wilhelm Marr, Roger Fenton, Felice Orsini, and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes. After him are Venceslaus Ulricus Hammershaimb, Otto Wilhelm von Struve, Alfred Escher, Estanislao Figueras, Gustave de Molinari, and Tirimüjgan Kadın. Among people deceased in 1885, Franz Abt ranks 22. Before him are Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia, Moses Montefiore, Francisco Serrano, 1st Duke of la Torre, Ferdinand Hiller, Zuo Zongtang, and George B. McClellan. After him are Gustav Nachtigal, Henri Milne-Edwards, Princess Elisabeth of Prussia, Duke Alexander of Württemberg, Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, and Edwin Freiherr von Manteuffel.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Franz Abt ranks 1,933 out of 7,253. Before him are Theodor Nöldeke (1836), Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini (1797), Duchess Amalie in Bavaria (1865), George, Duke of Bavaria (1455), Friedrich Alfred Krupp (1854), and Henry III, Duke of Bavaria (940). After him are Barbara of Brandenburg (1464), Richard Hauptmann (1899), Johannes Nikolaus Tetens (1736), Hermann I, Landgrave of Thuringia (1155), Gustav Nachtigal (1834), and Johann VI, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg (1536).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Franz Abt ranks 76. Before him are Johann Gottfried Walther (1684), Johann Christoph Pepusch (1667), Albert Lortzing (1801), Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach (1759), Johann Kirnberger (1721), and Simon Mayr (1763). After him are Peter Cornelius (1824), Carl Friedrich Zelter (1758), Curt Sachs (1881), Fredrik Pacius (1809), Johann Christoph Bach (1671), and Gershon Kingsley (1922).

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