1784 - 1849
Friedrich Wilhelm Michael Kalkbrenner (2–8 November 1785 – 10 June 1849), also known as Frédéric Kalkbrenner, was a pianist, composer, piano teacher and piano manufacturer. German by birth, Kalkbrenner studied at the Conservatoire de Paris, starting at a young age and eventually settled in Paris, where he lived until his death in 1849. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Friedrich Kalkbrenner has received more than 118,739 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Friedrich Kalkbrenner is the 302nd most popular musician (down from 286th in 2019), the 1,377th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,214th in 2019) and the 13th most popular German Musician.
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Among musicians, Friedrich Kalkbrenner ranks 302 out of 2,675. Before him are Burt Bacharach, Woody Guthrie, Bo Diddley, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Wallace Hartley, and Nicko McBrain. After him are Will.i.am, Chico Buarque, Ram Narayan, McCoy Tyner, Avicii, and Lester Young.
1928 - Present
HPI: 68.18
Rank: 296
1912 - 1967
HPI: 68.17
Rank: 297
1928 - 2008
HPI: 68.13
Rank: 298
1954 - 1990
HPI: 68.13
Rank: 299
1878 - 1912
HPI: 68.13
Rank: 300
1952 - Present
HPI: 68.09
Rank: 301
1784 - 1849
HPI: 68.09
Rank: 302
1975 - Present
HPI: 68.05
Rank: 303
1944 - Present
HPI: 68.02
Rank: 304
1927 - Present
HPI: 68.01
Rank: 305
1938 - 2020
HPI: 67.98
Rank: 306
1989 - 2018
HPI: 67.95
Rank: 307
1909 - 1959
HPI: 67.94
Rank: 308
Among people born in 1784, Friedrich Kalkbrenner ranks 18. Before him are Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia, François Rude, Rafael del Riego, Ferdinand Ries, Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel, and Princess Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily. After him are Moses Montefiore, Peter von Cornelius, Dionisio Aguado y García, Duchess Charlotte Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, and George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen. Among people deceased in 1849, Friedrich Kalkbrenner ranks 21. Before him are William Miller, Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, Otto Nicolai, Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, Anita Garibaldi, and Juliusz Słowacki. After him are Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia, Dionisio Aguado y García, Maria Cristina of Naples and Sicily, Lajos Batthyány, Stephan Endlicher, and Delphine LaLaurie.
1784 - 1803
HPI: 70.07
Rank: 12
1784 - 1855
HPI: 69.85
Rank: 13
1784 - 1823
HPI: 69.36
Rank: 14
1784 - 1838
HPI: 68.86
Rank: 15
1784 - 1863
HPI: 68.77
Rank: 16
1784 - 1806
HPI: 68.74
Rank: 17
1784 - 1849
HPI: 68.09
Rank: 18
1784 - 1885
HPI: 67.93
Rank: 19
1784 - 1867
HPI: 67.67
Rank: 20
1784 - 1849
HPI: 67.67
Rank: 21
1784 - 1840
HPI: 66.97
Rank: 22
1784 - 1877
HPI: 65.97
Rank: 23
1784 - 1860
HPI: 65.54
Rank: 24
1782 - 1849
HPI: 70.55
Rank: 15
1774 - 1849
HPI: 70.33
Rank: 16
1810 - 1849
HPI: 70.18
Rank: 17
1792 - 1849
HPI: 69.01
Rank: 18
1821 - 1849
HPI: 68.52
Rank: 19
1809 - 1849
HPI: 68.31
Rank: 20
1784 - 1849
HPI: 68.09
Rank: 21
1798 - 1849
HPI: 67.78
Rank: 22
1784 - 1849
HPI: 67.67
Rank: 23
1779 - 1849
HPI: 67.45
Rank: 24
1807 - 1849
HPI: 67.31
Rank: 25
1804 - 1849
HPI: 67.07
Rank: 26
1787 - 1849
HPI: 66.87
Rank: 27
Among people born in Germany, Friedrich Kalkbrenner ranks 1,377 out of 5,289. Before him are Tarkan (1972), Fidelis of Sigmaringen (1577), Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796), Princess Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt (1765), Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (1849), and Salvian (405). After him are Duchess Helene of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1814), Johann Rattenhuber (1897), Hans Werner Henze (1926), Karl Richard Lepsius (1810), Erwin Neher (1944), and Widukind of Corvey (925).
1972 - Present
HPI: 68.12
Rank: 1,371
1577 - 1622
HPI: 68.12
Rank: 1,372
1796 - 1866
HPI: 68.11
Rank: 1,373
1765 - 1796
HPI: 68.10
Rank: 1,374
1849 - 1917
HPI: 68.10
Rank: 1,375
405 - 451
HPI: 68.09
Rank: 1,376
1784 - 1849
HPI: 68.09
Rank: 1,377
1814 - 1858
HPI: 68.07
Rank: 1,378
1897 - 1957
HPI: 68.07
Rank: 1,379
1926 - 2012
HPI: 68.05
Rank: 1,380
1810 - 1884
HPI: 68.05
Rank: 1,381
1944 - Present
HPI: 68.04
Rank: 1,382
925 - 980
HPI: 68.04
Rank: 1,383
Among musicians born in Germany, Friedrich Kalkbrenner ranks 13. Before him are Frank Farian (1941), Wilhelm Kempff (1895), Klaus Nomi (1944), André Previn (1929), Rudolf Schenker (1948), and Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller (1806). After him are Wilhelm Backhaus (1884), Ralf Hütter (1946), Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach (1715), Michael Schenker (1955), Bert Kaempfert (1923), and Paul Landers (1964).
1941 - Present
HPI: 71.00
Rank: 7
1895 - 1991
HPI: 70.53
Rank: 8
1944 - 1983
HPI: 69.50
Rank: 9
1929 - 2019
HPI: 68.53
Rank: 10
1948 - Present
HPI: 68.47
Rank: 11
1806 - 1874
HPI: 68.19
Rank: 12
1784 - 1849
HPI: 68.09
Rank: 13
1884 - 1969
HPI: 67.84
Rank: 14
1946 - Present
HPI: 66.84
Rank: 15
1715 - 1739
HPI: 66.53
Rank: 16
1955 - Present
HPI: 66.43
Rank: 17
1923 - 1980
HPI: 66.43
Rank: 18
1964 - Present
HPI: 66.30
Rank: 19