COMPOSER

Franz von Suppé

1819 - 1895

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Franz von Suppé, born Francesco Ezechiele Ermenegildo de Suppé (18 April 1819 – 21 May 1895) was an Austrian composer of light operas and other theatre music. He came from the Kingdom of Dalmatia, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now part of Croatia). A composer and conductor of the Romantic period, he is notable for his four dozen operettas, including the first operetta to a German libretto. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Franz von Suppé has received more than 308,961 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Franz von Suppé is the 212th most popular composer (down from 168th in 2019), the 34th most popular biography from Croatia (down from 18th in 2019) and the most popular Croatian Composer.

Franz von Suppé is most famous for being a composer of operettas. He was born in 1819 and died in 1895.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.79

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Franz von Suppé ranks 212 out of 1,451. Before him are Alessandro Marcello, Steve Reich, Angelo Badalamenti, Pauline Viardot, James Horner, and Josef Suk. After him are Niccolò Piccinni, Howard Shore, Francesco Landini, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Maurizio Pollini, and Lili Boulanger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1819, Franz von Suppé ranks 20. Before him are George Eliot, Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, John Couch Adams, William T. G. Morton, George V of Hanover, and Theodor Fontane. After him are Stanisław Moniuszko, Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia, Gottfried Keller, Louise Marie Thérèse of Artois, Francis V, Duke of Modena, and Allan Pinkerton. Among people deceased in 1895, Franz von Suppé ranks 13. Before him are Empress Myeongseong, Isma'il Pasha, Julius Lothar Meyer, José Martí, Adam Opel, and Friedrich Miescher. After him are Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen, Johann Josef Loschmidt, Arthur Cayley, Carl Ludwig, Nikolai Leskov, and Camilla Collett.

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In Croatia

Among people born in Croatia, Franz von Suppé ranks 34 out of 700. Before him are Dubravka Ugrešić (1949), Miroslav Krleža (1893), Davor Šuker (1968), Omar Pasha (1806), Stjepan Radić (1871), and Marko Marulić (1450). After him are Margaret of Hungary (1242), Stjepan Bobek (1923), Tomislav Ivić (1933), Ivan Gundulić (1589), Ivan Meštrović (1883), and Franciscus Patricius (1529).

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Among COMPOSERS In Croatia

Among composers born in Croatia, Franz von Suppé ranks 1. After him are Jakov Gotovac (1895), Luigi Dallapiccola (1904), Ivan Zajc (1832), Vatroslav Lisinski (1819), Josip Runjanin (1821), and Krešimir Baranović (1894).

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