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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 481,426 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Franz Lehár is the 78th most popular composer (up from 84th in 2019), the 6th most popular biography from Slovakia and the most popular Slovak Composer.

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

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  • 480k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 71.23

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 48

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 12.48

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.26

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Franz Lehár ranks 78 out of 1,216. Before him are Johann Pachelbel, Anton Webern, Josquin des Prez, Jules Massenet, Dieterich Buxtehude, and Gabriel Fauré. After him are Carl Czerny, Nino Rota, Hans Zimmer, Luigi Boccherini, César Franck, and Leoš Janáček.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Franz Lehár ranks 4. Before him are Vladimir Lenin, Maria Montessori, and Alfred Adler. After him are Christian X of Denmark, Adolf Loos, Jean Baptiste Perrin, Jules Bordet, Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, Albert Fish, William G. Morgan, and Miguel Primo de Rivera. Among people deceased in 1948, Franz Lehár ranks 7. Before him are Mahatma Gandhi, Sergei Eisenstein, Mileva Marić, Osamu Dazai, Hideki Tojo, and Edvard Beneš. After him are Ferdinand I of Bulgaria, Antonin Artaud, Andrei Zhdanov, Walther von Brauchitsch, Karl Brandt, and Babe Ruth.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Franz Lehár ranks 6 out of 357. Before him are Alexander Dubček (1921), Elizabeth of Hungary (1207), Ladislaus the Posthumous (1440), Philipp Lenard (1862), and John Zápolya (1487). After him are Jozef Tiso (1887), Gustáv Husák (1913), Gyula Andrássy (1823), Francis II Rákóczi (1676), Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778), and Ferenc Szálasi (1897).

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Among COMPOSERS In Slovakia

Among composers born in Slovakia, Franz Lehár ranks 1. After him are Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778), Ernst von Dohnányi (1877), Franz Schmidt (1874), Ján Cikker (1911), Alexander Moyzes (1906), Alphons Czibulka (1842), Tibor Serly (1901), and Vladimír Godár (1956).

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