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Hamilton Harty

1879 - 1941

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Sir Herbert Hamilton Harty (4 December 1879 – 19 February 1941) was an Irish composer, conductor, pianist and organist. After an early career as a church organist in his native Ireland, Harty moved to London at about age 20, soon becoming a well-known piano accompanist. The Musical Times called him "the prince of accompanists". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hamilton Harty has received more than 101,108 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Hamilton Harty is the 1,005th most popular composer (up from 1,249th in 2019), the 2,821st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,523rd in 2019) and the 37th most popular British Composer.

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  • 57.16

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Hamilton Harty ranks 1,005 out of 1,451. Before him are Artur Kapp, Leevi Madetoja, André Gedalge, Carlos Guastavino, August Wilhelm Ambros, and Richard Heuberger. After him are Édouard Colonne, Alessandro Grandi, Gottfried August Homilius, Rebecca Clarke, Percy Faith, and Balys Dvarionas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Hamilton Harty ranks 141. Before him are Albert Taillandier, Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda, Eugen Varga, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Ignatius Gabriel I Tappouni, and Martin Mutschmann. After him are Urban Gad, Jin Shuren, Walery Sławek, Otto Wahle, Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, and René Pottier. Among people deceased in 1941, Hamilton Harty ranks 136. Before him are Dimitrios Golemis, Otto Strandman, Pavel Filonov, Fritz Manteuffel, Diederik Korteweg, and Louis Brandeis. After him are Yakov Smushkevich, Georgette Leblanc, Jin Shuren, Franciszek Kleeberg, Karl Neukirch, and Chris Watson.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Hamilton Harty ranks 2,821 out of 8,785. Before him are Christiane Amanpour (1958), Arthur Holmes (1890), Francis Crozier (1796), Bob Fitzsimmons (1863), Arthur Gore (1868), and Miles Joseph Berkeley (1803). After him are Ælfthryth, Countess of Flanders (877), C. Aubrey Smith (1863), Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (1864), Henry Daniell (1894), Joe Fry (1915), and Edmund Goulding (1891).

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Among COMPOSERS In United Kingdom

Among composers born in United Kingdom, Hamilton Harty ranks 37. Before him are Stanley Myers (1930), Charles Burney (1726), Harry Gregson-Williams (1961), John Tavener (1944), Matthew Locke (1621), and John Rutter (1945). After him are Rebecca Clarke (1886), Brian Ferneyhough (1943), Richard Addinsell (1904), Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (1892), Christopher Hogwood (1941), and Hubert Parry (1848).

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