CONDUCTOR

Henry Wood

1869 - 1944

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Sir Henry Joseph Wood (3 March 1869 – 19 August 1944) was an English conductor best known for his association with London's annual series of promenade concerts, known as the Proms. He conducted them for nearly half a century, introducing hundreds of new works to British audiences. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henry Wood has received more than 288,529 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Henry Wood is the 97th most popular conductor (down from 82nd in 2019), the 3,290th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,875th in 2019) and the 11th most popular British Conductor.

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  • 290k

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  • 48.73

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.25

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CONDUCTORS

Among conductors, Henry Wood ranks 97 out of 128. Before him are Antonio Pappano, Paul Paray, Fabio Luisi, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Vasily Agapkin, and Willem Kes. After him are Grzegorz Fitelberg, Valery Khalilov, Gustavo Dudamel, Tomás Bretón, Milan Horvat, and Dennis Russell Davies.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1869, Henry Wood ranks 122. Before him are Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster, Joshua Pim, Phoebus Levene, Yervant Odian, Sergey Chaplygin, and Harald Sohlberg. After him are Carlo Airoldi, Levon Shant, Kálmán Kandó, Robert W. Paul, Oton Iveković, and Juan Bautista Pérez. Among people deceased in 1944, Henry Wood ranks 245. Before him are Jacques Roumain, Al Smith, Jean Cavaillès, Wim Anderiesen, Oszkár Gerde, and E. O. Plauen. After him are Pierre Brossolette, Wendell Willkie, Victor Basch, Rudolf Harbig, Ștefania Mărăcineanu, and Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Henry Wood ranks 3,290 out of 8,785. Before him are Tony Christie (1943), George Chapman (1559), John Marshall (1876), Graham Gouldman (1946), Carole Pateman (1940), and Lydia Becker (1827). After him are Jon Pertwee (1919), Emil Voigt (1883), Charles Blagden (1748), Ajahn Brahm (1951), Tony Kaye (1952), and James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan (1797).

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Among CONDUCTORS In United Kingdom

Among conductors born in United Kingdom, Henry Wood ranks 11. Before him are Thomas Beecham (1879), Colin Davis (1927), Eugene Aynsley Goossens (1893), Jeffrey Tate (1943), Adrian Boult (1889), and Antonio Pappano (1959). After him are Raymond Leppard (1927), John Pritchard (1921), Daniel Harding (1975), Malcolm Sargent (1895), and Andrew Parrott (1947).

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