COMPOSER

Friedrich Silcher

1789 - 1860

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Philipp Friedrich Silcher (27 June 1789 in Schnait (today part of Weinstadt) – 26 August 1860 in Tübingen), was a German composer, mainly known for his lieder (songs), and an important Volkslied collector. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Friedrich Silcher has received more than 59,300 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Friedrich Silcher is the 976th most popular composer (down from 962nd in 2019), the 3,783rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,485th in 2019) and the 147th most popular German Composer.

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  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.23

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Friedrich Silcher ranks 976 out of 1,451. Before him are Nicolas Dalayrac, Harold Arlen, Édouard Deldevez, Ludwig Thuille, Girolamo Diruta, and Nicola Piovani. After him are Michael William Balfe, Ignaz Holzbauer, John Tavener, Alessandro Rolla, Federico Moreno Torroba, and Friedrich Gernsheim.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1789, Friedrich Silcher ranks 33. Before him are Friedrich Boie, Charles Rivière-Hérard, Auguste Couder, Bernhard Severin Ingemann, Henry Pottinger, and Carlos María de Alvear. After him are Richard Bright, Manuel Gómez Pedraza, Miguel Barragán, Cesare Balbo, Peter Joseph Lenné, and Leona Vicario. Among people deceased in 1860, Friedrich Silcher ranks 44. Before him are Tokugawa Nariaki, André Marie Constant Duméril, Eduard Friedrich Eversmann, Sergei Petrovich Trubetskoy, Honoré Charles Reille, and Johan Ludvig Heiberg. After him are Andreas Metaxas, Konstantin Aksakov, Louis Hersent, Anders Sandøe Ørsted, Martin Rathke, and Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Friedrich Silcher ranks 3,783 out of 7,253. Before him are Princess Caroline of Nassau-Usingen (1762), Nur Fettahoğlu (1980), Michael Weikath (1962), Heinrich Khunrath (1560), Duke Christian Louis of Mecklenburg (1912), and Princess Ida of Schaumburg-Lippe (1852). After him are Eva Justin (1909), Ernst Hoppenberg (1878), Gustav Adolf, Cardinal Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (1823), Sabina of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1529), Heinrich Rose (1795), and Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1655).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Friedrich Silcher ranks 147. Before him are Johann Jacob Bach (1682), Johann Walter (1496), Heinrich Albert (1604), Felix Draeseke (1835), Johann Adolf Scheibe (1708), and Adolf Bernhard Marx (1795). After him are Friedrich Gernsheim (1839), Johann Theile (1646), Gottfried August Homilius (1714), Emil von Sauer (1862), Julius Reubke (1834), and Daniel Gottlob Türk (1750).

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