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Henry Bishop

1786 - 1855

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Sir Henry Rowley Bishop (18 November 1787 – 30 April 1856) was an English composer from the early Romantic era. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henry Bishop has received more than 7,985 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Henry Bishop is the 1,101st most popular composer (down from 1,018th in 2019), the 3,269th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,143rd in 2019) and the 48th most popular British Composer.

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  • 16

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  • 4.50

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  • 2.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Henry Bishop ranks 1,101 out of 1,216Before him are Carter Burwell, Nicolas Dalayrac, Ivor Novello, Igor Krutoy, Gioseffo Guami, and Hans Huber. After him are Brian Ferneyhough, Armand Amar, Vladimír Franz, Henk Badings, Elza Ibrahimova, and Luís de Freitas Branco.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1786, Henry Bishop ranks 48Before him are Auguste de Montferrand, Moshoeshoe I, Wilhelm Gesenius, José Joaquín Prieto, Andreas Metaxas, and Pavel Schilling. After him are José María Vargas, Rudolph Schadow, Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar, Thomas Nuttall, Louis McLane, and Nathaniel Wallich. Among people deceased in 1855, Henry Bishop ranks 36Before him are Henri Druey, August Leopold Crelle, Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Konstantin Batyushkov, Josef Munzinger, and Francisco Xavier de Luna Pizarro. After him are Mihály Pollack, Fruto Chamorro, Timofey Granovsky, William John Swainson, Henry De la Beche, and Wilhem de Haan.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Henry Bishop ranks 3,269 out of 7,765Before him are Anthony Joshua (1989), Edgar Evans (1876), Jackie Collins (1937), Magnus Erlendsson, Earl of Orkney (1075), Biff Byford (1951), and Philip Barker-Webb (1793). After him are Andrew Planche (1727), Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778), Dick Turpin (1705), Diana Dors (1931), Mike Spence (1936), and Catherine Bell (1968).

Among COMPOSERS In United Kingdom

Among composers born in United Kingdom, Henry Bishop ranks 48Before him are Cyril Scott (1879), Michael Tippett (1905), William Lawes (1602), Charles Avison (1709), Clint Mansell (1963), and Ivor Novello (1893). After him are Brian Ferneyhough (1943), Gavin Bryars (1943), Thomas Linley the younger (1756), William Sterndale Bennett (1816), Arthur Bliss (1891), and Thomas Morley (1557).