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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 85,509 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Hervé is the 520th most popular composer (down from 486th in 2019), the 2,128th most popular biography from France (down from 1,993rd in 2019) and the 75th most popular French Composer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 86k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.66

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.91

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.54

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Hervé ranks 520 out of 1,216Before him are Karel Svoboda, Hans Krása, Hans Swarowsky, Bronius Kutavičius, Manuel Ponce, and Ferenc Erkel. After him are Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Edgard Varèse, Gershon Kingsley, Jean Françaix, Alexandre Guilmant, and Johann Georg Pisendel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1825, Hervé ranks 26Before him are Henry Walter Bates, Princess Hildegard of Bavaria, Charles Frederick Worth, Edward Frankland, Mór Jókai, and George Phillips Bond. After him are Archduchess Auguste Ferdinande of Austria, Camilo Castelo Branco, Práxedes Mateo Sagasta, Friedrich Bayer, Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, and Charles Joshua Chaplin. Among people deceased in 1892, Hervé ranks 34Before him are Emin Pasha, Afanasy Fet, Süleyman Hüsnü Pasha, Peter Nicolai Arbo, Antonio de Torres Jurado, and Jules Perrot. After him are Ernest Guiraud, Jan Czerski, Charles Lavigerie, Prince Francis, Count of Trapani, Carlo Cafiero, and Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke.

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In France

Among people born in France, Hervé ranks 2,128 out of 6,011Before him are Charles Cros (1842), Pierre Klossowski (1905), Petronilla of Aquitaine (1125), François Blondel (1618), Julien Gracq (1910), and Philippe Quinault (1635). After him are Jean Delannoy (1908), Leslie Caron (1931), Marie Elisabeth of France (1572), Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605), Edgard Varèse (1883), and Philippe Garrel (1948).

Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Hervé ranks 75Before him are Florent Schmitt (1870), Franck Pourcel (1913), Henri Duparc (1848), Ferdinand Hérold (1791), Antoine Busnois (1430), and Théodore Dubois (1837). After him are Edgard Varèse (1883), Jean Françaix (1912), Alexandre Guilmant (1837), Gabriel Pierné (1863), Louis Couperin (1626), and Pierre Henry (1927).