COMPOSER

Hubert Parry

1848 - 1918

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Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, 1st Baronet (27 February 1848 – 7 October 1918), was an English composer, teacher and historian of music. Born in Richmond Hill, Bournemouth, Parry's first major works appeared in 1880. As a composer he is best known for the choral song "Jerusalem", his 1902 setting for the coronation anthem "I was glad", the choral and orchestral ode Blest Pair of Sirens, and the hymn tune "Repton", which sets the words "Dear Lord and Father of Mankind". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hubert Parry has received more than 559,125 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Hubert Parry is the 1,042nd most popular composer (down from 1,004th in 2019), the 2,987th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,802nd in 2019) and the 43rd most popular British Composer.

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  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.90

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Hubert Parry ranks 1,042 out of 1,451. Before him are Roman Vlad, Siegmund von Hausegger, Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, Ludvig Norman, Adolf Wiklund, and Antoine Duhamel. After him are Alessandro Striggio, Jón Leifs, Kalevi Aho, Manuel Cardoso, Jāzeps Vītols, and Otto Jahn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1848, Hubert Parry ranks 89. Before him are Diederik Korteweg, Ioan Slavici, Enrico Forlanini, Otto von Emmich, Surendranath Banerjee, and Alexander Kazbegi. After him are Princess Frederica of Hanover, Henry Augustus Rowland, Gustav Fischer, Margaret Lindsay Huggins, Oskar Lenz, and Gunnar Knudsen. Among people deceased in 1918, Hubert Parry ranks 129. Before him are Nikolai Ruzsky, Marianne Cope, George Coșbuc, Vasily Safonov, Aleksei Evert, and Henry Gunther. After him are Sophie Menter, Maxime Maufra, Harold Lockwood, Władysław Ślewiński, Émile Étienne Guimet, and Savva Mamontov.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Hubert Parry ranks 2,987 out of 8,785. Before him are Hermione Baddeley (1906), Mark Sheppard (1964), John Peel (1939), Sergey Kapitsa (1928), Anthony Carlisle (1768), and Fred Karno (1866). After him are Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein (1872), Pat Jennings (1945), Geoff Nicholls (1948), Ray Lankester (1847), Sidney Robinson (1876), and John Robison (1739).

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Among COMPOSERS In United Kingdom

Among composers born in United Kingdom, Hubert Parry ranks 43. Before him are Hamilton Harty (1879), Rebecca Clarke (1886), Brian Ferneyhough (1943), Richard Addinsell (1904), Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (1892), and Christopher Hogwood (1941). After him are Patrick Doyle (1953), York Bowen (1884), William Lawes (1602), Charles Avison (1709), Michael Tippett (1905), and Henry Bishop (1786).

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