COMPOSER

Frédéric Chopin

1810 - 1849

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Frédéric François Chopin (born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin; 1 March 1810 – 17 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period, who wrote primarily for solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown as a leading musician of his era, one whose "poetic genius was based on a professional technique that was without equal in his generation". Chopin was born in Żelazowa Wola and grew up in Warsaw, which in 1815 became part of Congress Poland. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frédéric Chopin has received more than 11,002,149 page views. His biography is available in 160 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 153 in 2019). Frédéric Chopin is the 4th most popular composer, the 2nd most popular biography from Poland (up from 3rd in 2019) and the most popular Polish Composer.

Frédéric Chopin is most famous for his piano compositions, which include études, preludes, nocturnes, and waltzes.

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  • 89.34

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 160

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 19.86

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.41

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Frédéric Chopin ranks 4 out of 1,451. Before him are Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Johann Sebastian Bach. After him are Antonio Vivaldi, Giuseppe Verdi, Richard Wagner, Joseph Haydn, Franz Schubert, George Frideric Handel, Robert Schumann, and Antonín Dvořák.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1810, Frédéric Chopin ranks 1. After him are Robert Schumann, Pope Leo XIII, Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, P. T. Barnum, Theodor Schwann, Alfred de Musset, Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies, Éliphas Lévi, Alexandre Colonna-Walewski, Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans, and Ernst Kummer. Among people deceased in 1849, Frédéric Chopin ranks 1. After him are Edgar Allan Poe, James K. Polk, Hokusai, Muhammad Ali of Egypt, Johann Strauss I, Anne Brontë, William II of the Netherlands, France Prešeren, Sándor Petőfi, Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner, and Charles Albert of Sardinia.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Frédéric Chopin ranks 2 out of 1,694. Before him are Nicolaus Copernicus (1473). After him are Marie Curie (1867), Pope John Paul II (1920), Arthur Schopenhauer (1788), Catherine the Great (1729), Rosa Luxemburg (1871), David Ben-Gurion (1886), Lech Wałęsa (1943), Paul von Hindenburg (1847), L. L. Zamenhof (1859), and Manfred von Richthofen (1892).

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Among COMPOSERS In Poland

Among composers born in Poland, Frédéric Chopin ranks 1. After him are Krzysztof Penderecki (1933), Witold Lutosławski (1913), Henryk Górecki (1933), Martin Agricola (1486), Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881), Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1687), Viktor Ullmann (1898), Grażyna Bacewicz (1909), Mieczysław Weinberg (1919), Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska (1834), and Maria Szymanowska (1789).

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