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Ignaz Pleyel

1757 - 1831

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Ignaz (Ignace) Joseph Pleyel (French: [plɛjɛl]; German: [ˈplaɪl̩]; 18 June 1757 – 14 November 1831) was an Austrian composer, music publisher and piano builder of the Classical period. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ignaz Pleyel has received more than 201,362 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Ignaz Pleyel is the 326th most popular composer (down from 249th in 2019).

Memorability Metrics

  • 200k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 65.35

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.67

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.05

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Ignaz Pleyel ranks 326 out of 1,451. Before him are Paul Abraham, Saverio Mercadante, Pierre De Geyter, Charles Ives, Sylvius Leopold Weiss, and Johann Adam Reincken. After him are John Dunstaple, Gustav Leonhardt, Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, Gustave Charpentier, Julius Fučík, and Heinrich Isaac.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1757, Ignaz Pleyel ranks 13. Before him are Pierre Augereau, Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Rigas Feraios, George Vancouver, and Erik Acharius. After him are Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis, Johann Matthäus Bechstein, Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt, Ercole Consalvi, and Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein. Among people deceased in 1831, Ignaz Pleyel ranks 18. Before him are Archduke Rudolf of Austria, Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf, August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, Rodolphe Kreutzer, Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, and Vicente Guerrero. After him are Barthold Georg Niebuhr, Thomas Johann Seebeck, Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Hans Karl von Diebitsch, Maria Szymanowska, and Henri Grégoire.

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