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Hildegard Behrens

1937 - 2009

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Hildegard Behrens (9 February 1937 – 18 August 2009) was a German operatic soprano with a wide repertoire including Wagner, Weber, Mozart, Richard Strauss, and Alban Berg roles. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hildegard Behrens has received more than 79,167 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Hildegard Behrens is the 808th most popular singer (down from 741st in 2019), the 3,499th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,211th in 2019) and the 31st most popular German Singer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 79k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.44

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.42

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SINGERS

Among singers, Hildegard Behrens ranks 808 out of 4,381. Before her are Minnie Riperton, Lill Lindfors, Ileana Cotrubaș, Arno, Lyudmila Zykina, and Gregg Allman. After her are Lotte Lehmann, Patti LaBelle, Little Walter, Naná Vasconcelos, Basia, and Bora Đorđević.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Hildegard Behrens ranks 246. Before her are Jiří Dienstbier, Michael Sata, Boris Cyrulnik, Alice Coltrane, David Del Tredici, and George Zweig. After her are Johnny Dorelli, Dyan Cannon, Vlatko Marković, Yukio Endo, Richard Marquand, and Hiroshi Ninomiya. Among people deceased in 2009, Hildegard Behrens ranks 160. Before her are Lucian Pulvermacher, Joan Martí i Alanis, Merce Cunningham, Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh, Dušan Džamonja, and Lyudmila Zykina. After her are Mike Bongiorno, Ekaterina Maximova, David Eddings, Yukio Endo, Helen Levitt, and Zequinha.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hildegard Behrens ranks 3,499 out of 7,253. Before her are John II, Duke of Cleves (1458), Georg, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe (1846), Dominic Monaghan (1976), John Casimir, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (1596), Robert von Mohl (1799), and Christopher II, Margrave of Baden-Rodemachern (1537). After her are Friedrich Josias, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1918), Hans Christian Blech (1915), Hermann Muhs (1894), Heinrich Anton de Bary (1831), Lotte Lehmann (1888), and Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen (1833).

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Among SINGERS In Germany

Among singers born in Germany, Hildegard Behrens ranks 31. Before her are H.P. Baxxter (1964), Tanita Tikaram (1969), Lilli Lehmann (1848), Hans Hotter (1909), Henriette Sontag (1806), and Kurt Moll (1938). After her are Lotte Lehmann (1888), Max Lorenz (1901), Rob Pilatus (1965), Roy Black (1943), Hermann Prey (1929), and Renate Müller (1906).

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