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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 679,076 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Frederick Delius is the 493rd most popular composer (up from 502nd in 2019), the 1,420th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,451st in 2019) and the 16th most popular British Composer.

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  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.69

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.52

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Frederick Delius ranks 493 out of 1,216Before him are Reinhard Keiser, Robert Stolz, Danny Elfman, Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Luis Bacalov, and Karl Michael Ziehrer. After him are Alexandre Tansman, Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach, Antonio de Cabezón, Albert Ketèlbey, Franz Doppler, and Thomas Arne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1862, Frederick Delius ranks 47Before him are Vito Cascio Ferro, Mary Anderson, Eugen Ehrlich, August Oetker, Mikhail Nesterov, and Infanta María de la Paz of Spain. After him are Nicholas Murray Butler, Henry McMahon, Anton Ažbe, René Viviani, Nitobe Inazō, and Cao Kun. Among people deceased in 1934, Frederick Delius ranks 51Before him are Hubert Lyautey, Hendrik Petrus Berlage, Pietro Gasparri, Franz Schreker, Adrien de Gerlache, and Prince Sixtus of Bourbon-Parma. After him are Paul Troost, Baby Face Nelson, Hermann Bahr, Viktor Kaplan, Hans Hahn, and Friedrich Ferdinand, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Frederick Delius ranks 1,420 out of 7,765Before him are Sebastian Coe (1956), Frances Fisher (1952), Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin (1766), Brian Aldiss (1925), Claire Bloom (1931), and Paul Rodgers (1949). After him are Derek Jarman (1942), Malcolm McLaren (1946), Louise d'Orléans (1869), Greg Lake (1947), Michael Scot (1175), and Christopher Isherwood (1904).

Among COMPOSERS In United Kingdom

Among composers born in United Kingdom, Frederick Delius ranks 16Before him are Keith Emerson (1944), Eugen d'Albert (1864), John Dunstaple (1390), Michael Nyman (1944), William Walton (1902), and Neville Marriner (1924). After him are Albert Ketèlbey (1875), Thomas Arne (1710), Jeremiah Clarke (1674), Ethel Smyth (1858), John Blow (1649), and Orlando Gibbons (1583).