COMPOSER

Franz Krommer

1759 - 1831

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Franz Krommer (Czech: František Vincenc Kramář; 27 November 1759 – 8 January 1831) was a Czech composer of classical music and violinist. He was one of the most popular composers in 19th-century Vienna alongside Beethoven whom he knew. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Franz Krommer has received more than 107,999 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Franz Krommer is the 746th most popular composer (down from 723rd in 2019), the 351st most popular biography from Czechia (down from 329th in 2019) and the 36th most popular Czech Composer.

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  • 110k

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  • 53.46

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.26

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.90

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Franz Krommer ranks 746 out of 1,451. Before him are Cesare Pugni, Jerome Kern, Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, Christian Cannabich, Claude Balbastre, and Benjamin Godard. After him are Augusta Holmès, Dave Grusin, Louise Bertin, Carlos Seixas, Juan Bautista Cabanilles, and Toshi Ichiyanagi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1759, Franz Krommer ranks 24. Before him are Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach, François Devienne, Johann Christian Reil, Aloys I, Prince of Liechtenstein, William Playfair, and William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville. After him are James Edward Smith, Ferenc Kazinczy, Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths, Matsudaira Sadanobu, Jakob II Bernoulli, and Carl Johan Adlercreutz. Among people deceased in 1831, Franz Krommer ranks 34. Before him are Sébastien Érard, James Hoban, Henry Maudslay, Jedediah Smith, Ryōkan, and Vasily Golovnin. After him are Princess Maria Amalia of Saxony, Ferenc Kazinczy, Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz, Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot, Jean-Louis Pons, and Mariana Pineda.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Franz Krommer ranks 351 out of 1,200. Before him are František Čáp (1913), Julius Francis, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (1641), Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer (1656), Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer (1689), Svatopluk Pluskal (1930), and Zdeněk Burian (1905). After him are Hedwiga Rosenbaumová (1864), Josef Kadraba (1933), Václav Talich (1883), Sigfried Giedion (1888), Fritz Mauthner (1849), and Jiří Sobotka (1911).

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Among COMPOSERS In Czechia

Among composers born in Czechia, Franz Krommer ranks 36. Before him are Josef Bohuslav Foerster (1859), Florian Leopold Gassmann (1729), Antonio Rosetti (1746), František Brixi (1732), Paul Wranitzky (1756), and Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer (1656). After him are Oskar Nedbal (1874), Jan Václav Voříšek (1791), Adalbert Gyrowetz (1763), Simon Sechter (1788), Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský (1684), and Vítězslava Kaprálová (1915).

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