COMPOSER

Franz Lehár

1870 - 1948

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Franz Lehár ( LAY-har; Hungarian: Lehár Ferenc [ˈlɛhaːr ˈfɛrɛnt͡s]; 30 April 1870 – 24 October 1948) was an Austro-Hungarian composer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Franz Lehár has received more than 510,827 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Franz Lehár is the 74th most popular composer (up from 78th in 2019), the 24th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 6th in 2019) and the most popular Hungarian Composer.

Franz Lehár is most famous for his operettas, which include The Merry Widow and The Land of Smiles.

Memorability Metrics

  • 510k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 71.41

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 49

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.91

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.68

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Franz Lehár ranks 74 out of 1,451. Before him are Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Alessandro Scarlatti, John Williams, Stefania Turkewich, Alexander Scriabin, and Gabriel Fauré. After him are Alexander Borodin, Leoš Janáček, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Hans Zimmer, and Johann Pachelbel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Franz Lehár ranks 5. Before him are Vladimir Lenin, Maria Montessori, Alfred Adler, and Christian X of Denmark. After him are Jean Baptiste Perrin, Jules Bordet, Adolf Loos, Albert Fish, Miguel Primo de Rivera, William G. Morgan, and Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach. Among people deceased in 1948, Franz Lehár ranks 6. Before him are Mahatma Gandhi, Sergei Eisenstein, Mileva Marić, Osamu Dazai, and Edvard Beneš. After him are Ferdinand I of Bulgaria, Hideki Tojo, Walther von Brauchitsch, Edgar de Wahl, Antonin Artaud, and Folke Bernadotte.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Franz Lehár ranks 24 out of 1,077. Before him are Árpád (845), Gaiseric (389), Jadwiga of Poland (1374), Robert Capa (1913), John Zápolya (1487), and Ladislaus the Posthumous (1440). After him are Count of St. Germain (1712), Ilona Staller (1951), Victor Vasarely (1906), Eugene Wigner (1902), György Lukács (1885), and Viktor Orbán (1963).

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Among COMPOSERS In Hungary

Among composers born in Hungary, Franz Lehár ranks 1. After him are Zoltán Kodály (1882), Emmerich Kálmán (1882), Miklós Rózsa (1907), Hans Richter (1843), Ferenc Erkel (1810), Princess Maria Antonia Koháry (1797), Joseph Kosma (1905), Karl Goldmark (1830), Dora Pejačević (1885), Hans Swarowsky (1899), and Joseph Szigeti (1892).

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