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Hans Leo Hassler

1564 - 1612

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Hans Leo Hassler (in German, Hans Leo Haßler) (baptised 26 October 1564 – 8 June 1612) was a German composer and organist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras, elder brother of lesser known composer Jakob Hassler. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hans Leo Hassler has received more than 123,439 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Hans Leo Hassler is the 343rd most popular composer (up from 425th in 2019), the 1,368th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,666th in 2019) and the 50th most popular German Composer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.43

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Hans Leo Hassler ranks 343 out of 1,451. Before him are Antonio Soler, Giovanni Bottesini, Georg Benda, Viktor Ullmann, Johann Schein, and Pietro Della Valle. After him are Frank Martin, György Kurtág, Louis Marchand, Elmer Bernstein, Sergei Taneyev, and Johann Kuhnau.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1564, Hans Leo Hassler ranks 9. Before him are Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Christopher Marlowe, William Adams, Paulo Miki, David Fabricius, and Ahmad Sirhindi. After him are Francisco Pacheco, Henry Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Federico Borromeo, Joos de Momper, Margherita Gonzaga, Duchess of Ferrara, and Hans Rottenhammer. Among people deceased in 1612, Hans Leo Hassler ranks 11. Before him are Federico Barocci, Christopher Clavius, Vincenzo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, Anne Catherine of Brandenburg, Karin Månsdotter, and Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales. After him are Francesco IV Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, Giovanni Battista Guarini, Jodocus Hondius, Ernest of Bavaria, False Dmitry III, and Piotr Skarga.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hans Leo Hassler ranks 1,368 out of 7,253. Before him are Rudolf Arnheim (1904), Adolf Heusinger (1897), Feodor Lynen (1911), Duke Charles Louis Frederick of Mecklenburg (1708), Johann Schein (1586), and Heidi Klum (1973). After him are Bernhardus Varenius (1622), Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria (1447), Frederick I, Margrave of Meissen (1257), Kurt Tucholsky (1890), Ludwig Guttmann (1899), and William I, Elector of Hesse (1743).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Hans Leo Hassler ranks 50. Before him are Johann van Beethoven (1740), Friedrich Kuhlau (1786), Georg Böhm (1661), Klaus Schulze (1947), Christian Gottlob Neefe (1748), and Johann Schein (1586). After him are Johann Kuhnau (1660), Karl Richter (1926), Hugo Riemann (1849), Samuel Scheidt (1587), Wolfgang Wagner (1919), and Carl Heinrich Graun (1704).

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