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Hans Gál

1890 - 1987

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Hans Gál OBE (5 August 1890 – 3 October 1987) was an Austrian composer, pedagogue, musicologist, and author, who emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1938. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hans Gál has received more than 88,955 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Hans Gál is the 1,188th most popular composer (down from 1,150th in 2019), the 901st most popular biography from Austria (down from 816th in 2019) and the 61st most popular Austrian Composer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 89k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.52

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.36

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.06

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Hans Gál ranks 1,188 out of 1,451. Before him are Francisco Asenjo Barbieri, Gustav Ernesaks, Tadeusz Baird, Andrey Petrov, Peter Arnold Heise, and Hilding Rosenberg. After him are Henk Badings, Mikhail Gnessin, Shlomo Mintz, Elza Ibrahimova, Tofig Guliyev, and Brad Fiedel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Hans Gál ranks 187. Before him are Paul Whiteman, Marc Wright, Art Acord, Suniti Kumar Chatterji, Klabund, and Robert Lindsay. After him are Åge Lundström, Herbert Marshall, Robert Armstrong, Luís de Freitas Branco, Paul Scherrer, and Rainer von Fieandt. Among people deceased in 1987, Hans Gál ranks 188. Before him are Arne Borg, František Šafránek, C. L. Moore, Elizabeth Hartman, Arturo Torres Carrasco, and John Hammond. After him are Henk Badings, Wolfgang Liebeneiner, Óscar Bonfiglio, Metaksia Simonyan, Richard Egan, and Hannelore Schroth.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Hans Gál ranks 901 out of 1,424. Before him are Leopold Lindtberg (1902), Sulamith Goldhaber (1923), Dominic Thiem (1993), Willibald Schmaus (1912), Lilly Scholz (1903), and Othmar Schneider (1928). After him are Helmut Zilk (1927), Reinhard Furrer (1940), Kurt Schmied (1926), Károly Kós (1883), Lisette Model (1901), and Rudolph Schindler (1887).

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Among COMPOSERS In Austria

Among composers born in Austria, Hans Gál ranks 61. Before him are Egon Wellesz (1885), Richard Heuberger (1850), Siegmund von Hausegger (1872), Ignaz Schuppanzigh (1776), Johann Nepomuk David (1895), and Ernest Gold (1921). After him are Harald Kloser (1956), Georg Friedrich Haas (1953), and Olga Neuwirth (1968).

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