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George Alexander Macfarren

1813 - 1887

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Sir George Alexander Macfarren (2 March 1813 – 31 October 1887) was an English composer and musicologist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Alexander Macfarren has received more than 45,896 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. George Alexander Macfarren is the 1,353rd most popular composer (down from 1,210th in 2019), the 5,113th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,059th in 2019) and the 87th most popular British Composer.

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  • 46k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.65

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.27

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.22

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, George Alexander Macfarren ranks 1,353 out of 1,451. Before him are Anne Dudley, Qigang Chen, Robert Russell Bennett, George Butterworth, Roy Harris, and Klaus Egge. After him are Jerry Herman, Lennox Berkeley, John Stainer, Humphrey Searle, Samuel Adler, and Magnus Lindberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1813, George Alexander Macfarren ranks 80. Before him are Stephen Mallory, Radhanath Sikdar, Henry Ward Beecher, Karl Friedrich August Rammelsberg, John Rae, and John Sedgwick. After him are David Dixon Porter, George Peter Alexander Healy, John Cassin, Lot M. Morrill, and Zachariah Chandler. Among people deceased in 1887, George Alexander Macfarren ranks 62. Before him are Semyon Nadson, Henry Ward Beecher, Joachim IV of Constantinople, Albert Parsons, Balfour Stewart, and Elihu B. Washburne. After him are Alfred Domett, Dinah Craik, Robert M. T. Hunter, and Daniel Manning.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, George Alexander Macfarren ranks 5,113 out of 8,785. Before him are E. W. Hornung (1866), Mark Jones (1933), Benjamin Vulliamy (1747), Hugh Huxley (1924), George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll (1823), and Josephine Tewson (1931). After him are Lancelot Hogben (1895), Brian Kidd (1949), Titus Oates (1649), Harvey Barnes (1997), Paul Ritter (1966), and Sharon Small (1967).

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Among COMPOSERS In United Kingdom

Among composers born in United Kingdom, George Alexander Macfarren ranks 87. Before him are Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875), John Stanley (1712), Dave Stewart (1950), David Rose (1910), Anne Dudley (1956), and George Butterworth (1885). After him are Lennox Berkeley (1903), John Stainer (1840), Humphrey Searle (1915), Edmund Rubbra (1901), Stephen Warbeck (1953), and Ray Noble (1903).

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