COMPOSER

Friedrich Kiel

1821 - 1885

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Friedrich Kiel (8 October 1821 – 13 September 1885) was a German composer and music teacher. Writing of the chamber music of Friedrich Kiel, the scholar and critic Wilhelm Altmann notes that it was Kiel’s extreme modesty which kept him and his exceptional works from receiving the consideration they deserved. After mentioning Johannes Brahms and others, Altmann writes, “He produced a number of chamber works, which . . Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Friedrich Kiel has received more than 38,649 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Friedrich Kiel is the 859th most popular composer (up from 928th in 2019).

Memorability Metrics

  • 39k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.20

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.90

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.58

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Friedrich Kiel ranks 859 out of 1,451. Before him are Piero Piccioni, Nie Er, Turlough O'Carolan, Robert Volkmann, Alberto Iglesias, and Déodat de Séverac. After him are Allan Pettersson, Aribert Reimann, Giovanni Artusi, Emanuele d'Astorga, Charles Burney, and Nikolai Tcherepnin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1821, Friedrich Kiel ranks 56. Before him are Karel Havlíček Borovský, John C. Breckinridge, Karol Mikuli, Princess Adelheid of Schaumburg-Lippe, Henriëtte Ronner-Knip, and Princess Catherine of Württemberg. After him are Charles Francis Hall, Nikolai Zaremba, James Longstreet, Clara Barton, Prince Adolf of Auersperg, and Octave Feuillet. Among people deceased in 1885, Friedrich Kiel ranks 49. Before him are Thomas Andrews, Nicolás Avellaneda, Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville, Eugène Emmanuel Amaury Duval, Amédée Courbet, and Jules Vallès. After him are Rosa Vercellana, Bharatendu Harishchandra, Prince Adolf of Auersperg, Schuyler Colfax, Georg Curtius, and Henri Dupuy de Lôme.

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