COMPOSER

Frederick Delius

1862 - 1934

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Frederick Theodore Albert Delius (born Fritz Theodor Albert Delius; ; 29 January 1862 – 10 June 1934) was an English composer. Born in Bradford in the north of England to a prosperous mercantile family, he resisted attempts to recruit him to commerce. He was sent to Florida in the United States in 1884 to manage an orange plantation. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frederick Delius has received more than 723,352 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia. Frederick Delius is the 547th most popular composer (down from 493rd in 2019), the 1,531st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,415th in 2019) and the 15th most popular British Composer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 720k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.17

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.46

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.68

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Frederick Delius ranks 547 out of 1,451. Before him are Gara Garayev, Pietro Nardini, Gershon Kingsley, Johannes Ciconia, Hans Krása, and Luis Bacalov. After him are Jean-François Le Sueur, Hermann Abendroth, Stephen Sondheim, Johann Crüger, William Walton, and Bálint Bakfark.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1862, Frederick Delius ranks 55. Before him are Cao Kun, Oswald Külpe, Mikhail Nesterov, Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, Nitobe Inazō, and Arvid Lindman. After him are Nicholas Murray Butler, Eugen Ehrlich, Edvard Westermarck, Adolphe Appia, Léon Boëllmann, and Sergei Nilus. Among people deceased in 1934, Frederick Delius ranks 60. Before him are Prince Sixtus of Bourbon-Parma, Paul Troost, Kate Sheppard, Friedrich Ferdinand, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, Roberto Ferruzzi, and Edmund Heines. After him are Ferdinand von Bredow, Karl Ernst, James Mark Baldwin, Erich Mühsam, Hakaru Hashimoto, and John Collier.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Frederick Delius ranks 1,531 out of 8,785. Before him are Roger Williamson (1948), George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle (1608), Jack Phillips (1887), Algernon Blackwood (1869), Kay Parker (1944), and Louise d'Orléans (1869). After him are Beorhtric of Wessex (800), Christopher Isherwood (1904), John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834), Robert Maynard (1684), Greg Lake (1947), and Fraser Stoddart (1942).

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Among COMPOSERS In United Kingdom

Among composers born in United Kingdom, Frederick Delius ranks 15. Before him are Thomas Tallis (1502), Andrew Lloyd Webber (1948), John Dunstaple (1390), Michael Nyman (1944), Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872), and Ethel Smyth (1858). After him are William Walton (1902), John Blow (1649), Neville Marriner (1924), Thomas Arne (1710), Albert Ketèlbey (1875), and Pasquale Anfossi (1727).

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