COMPOSER

Hervé

1825 - 1892

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Louis-Auguste Florimond Ronger (30 June 1825 – 4 November 1892), who used the pseudonym Hervé (French pronunciation: [ɛʁve]), was a French singer, composer, librettist, conductor and scene painter, whom Ernest Newman, following Reynaldo Hahn, credited with inventing the genre of operetta in Paris. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hervé has received more than 89,896 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Hervé is the 527th most popular composer (down from 520th in 2019), the 2,187th most popular biography from France (down from 2,121st in 2019) and the 78th most popular French Composer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 90k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.47

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.54

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.45

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Hervé ranks 527 out of 1,451. Before him are Sebastián Iradier, Manos Hatzidakis, Fredrik Pacius, Jean-Féry Rebel, Hans Swarowsky, and Johann Christoph Bach. After him are Boris Lyatoshinsky, Michael Kamen, Ivan Zajc, François-Joseph Fétis, Edgard Varèse, and Luigi Rossi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1825, Hervé ranks 26. Before him are Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna of Russia, Mór Jókai, Princess Hildegard of Bavaria, George Phillips Bond, Charles Frederick Worth, and Edward Frankland. After him are Camilo Castelo Branco, Iwakura Tomomi, Hans Gude, Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Práxedes Mateo Sagasta, and Archduchess Auguste Ferdinande of Austria. Among people deceased in 1892, Hervé ranks 29. Before him are Yoshitoshi, Henry Walter Bates, George Biddell Airy, Emin Pasha, Ravachol, and Süleyman Hüsnü Pasha. After him are Archduke Karl Salvator of Austria, Ernest Guiraud, Antonio de Torres Jurado, Afanasy Fet, Jules Perrot, and Peter Nicolai Arbo.

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In France

Among people born in France, Hervé ranks 2,187 out of 6,770. Before him are Yann Arthus-Bertrand (1946), Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne (1727), Emanuel Ungaro (1933), François-Henri Pinault (1962), Eugène Fromentin (1820), and Philippe Quinault (1635). After him are Éric Zemmour (1958), Guillaume Dupuytren (1777), Sami Frey (1937), Pierre Gringore (1475), Léon Cogniet (1794), and Charles Cros (1842).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Hervé ranks 78. Before him are Louis-Nicolas Clérambault (1676), Maurice Duruflé (1902), Florent Schmitt (1870), Alexandre Desplat (1961), Alexandre Guilmant (1837), and Jean-Féry Rebel (1666). After him are Edgard Varèse (1883), Louis Couperin (1626), Jean-François Le Sueur (1760), Pierre Henry (1927), Henri Duparc (1848), and Gabriel Pierné (1863).

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