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Hugo Riemann

1849 - 1919

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Karl Wilhelm Julius Hugo Riemann (18 July 1849 – 10 July 1919) was a German musicologist and composer who was among the founders of modern musicology. The leading European music scholar of his time, he was active and influential as both a music theorist and music historian. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hugo Riemann has received more than 90,480 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Hugo Riemann is the 416th most popular composer (down from 344th in 2019), the 1,631st most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,296th in 2019) and the 61st most popular German Composer.

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  • 57.32

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.97

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.02

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Hugo Riemann ranks 416 out of 1,216. Before him are Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Joaquín Turina, Giovanni Pacini, Oscar Straus, Koichi Sugiyama, and Emilio de' Cavalieri. After him are Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Remo Giazotto, Albert Lortzing, Princess Cecilia of Sweden, Heinrich Marschner, and Johann Christoph Bach.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1849, Hugo Riemann ranks 41. Before him are Jean Béraud, Maria Theresa of Austria-Este, Princess Alice of Parma, Georg Luger, Hong Tianguifu, and Wilhelm Voigt. After him are Dersu Uzala, Eugène Carrière, Herbert von Bismarck, William Osler, Emile Claus, and Karl Brugmann. Among people deceased in 1919, Hugo Riemann ranks 47. Before him are Leo Jogiches, Loránd Eötvös, Vasily Chapayev, Peter Altenberg, Endre Ady, and Maria Theresa of Austria-Este. After him are Gustav Landauer, Henry J. Heinz, Evelyn De Morgan, Feng Guozhang, Franz von Liszt, and Hermann Weingärtner.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hugo Riemann ranks 1,631 out of 6,142. Before him are Uli Stielike (1954), Arnold Janssen (1837), Saint Afra (300), Anton von Werner (1843), Princess Elisabeth of Prussia (1815), and Pascual Jordan (1902). After him are Otto Dietrich (1897), Gustav Landauer (1870), Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (1795), Eduard Mörike (1804), William Ernest, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1876), and Karl August von Hardenberg (1750).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Hugo Riemann ranks 61. Before him are Carl Heinrich Graun (1704), Klaus Schulze (1947), Ferdinand Ries (1784), Hans Werner Henze (1926), Wolfgang Wagner (1919), and Johann van Beethoven (1740). After him are Albert Lortzing (1801), Heinrich Marschner (1795), Johann Christoph Bach (1671), Hans Leo Hassler (1564), Ferdinand Hiller (1811), and Princess Philippine Charlotte of Prussia (1716).

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