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Jacques Offenbach

1819 - 1880

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Jacques Offenbach (; 20 June 1819 – 5 October 1880) was a German-born French composer, cellist and impresario. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s to the 1870s, and his uncompleted opera The Tales of Hoffmann. He was a powerful influence on later composers of the operetta genre, particularly Franz von Suppé, Johann Strauss II and Arthur Sullivan. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacques Offenbach has received more than 1,373,410 page views. His biography is available in 91 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 88 in 2019). Jacques Offenbach is the 29th most popular composer (up from 30th in 2019), the 64th most popular biography from Germany (down from 60th in 2019) and the 8th most popular German Composer.

Jacques Offenbach was a German-born French composer of the Romantic era. He is best known for his operettas of the 1850s, such as Orpheus in the Underworld, The Tales of Hoffmann, and La belle Hélène.

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  • 3.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Jacques Offenbach ranks 29 out of 1,451. Before him are Ennio Morricone, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Claude Debussy, Bedřich Smetana, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. After him are Christoph Willibald Gluck, Maurice Ravel, Hector Berlioz, Richard Strauss, Guido of Arezzo, and Anton Bruckner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1819, Jacques Offenbach ranks 3. Before him are Queen Victoria, and Gustave Courbet. After him are Clara Schumann, Léon Foucault, Herman Melville, Albert, Prince Consort, Walt Whitman, Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, Báb, Hippolyte Fizeau, and Maria II of Portugal. Among people deceased in 1880, Jacques Offenbach ranks 2. Before him is Gustave Flaubert. After him are Maria Alexandrovna, George Eliot, Paul Broca, Henryk Wieniawski, William Lassell, Ned Kelly, Anselm Feuerbach, Michel Chasles, Emperor Norton, and Bettino Ricasoli.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Jacques Offenbach ranks 64 out of 7,253. Before him are Joseph Goebbels (1897), Erich Maria Remarque (1898), Reinhard Heydrich (1904), Eva Braun (1912), Gerd Müller (1945), and Ambrose (340). After him are Konrad Adenauer (1876), Erich Fromm (1900), Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762), Ludwig Feuerbach (1804), Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714), and Albertus Magnus (1206).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Jacques Offenbach ranks 8. Before him are Johann Sebastian Bach (1685), Richard Wagner (1813), George Frideric Handel (1685), Robert Schumann (1810), Johannes Brahms (1833), and Felix Mendelssohn (1809). After him are Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714), Richard Strauss (1864), Carl Maria von Weber (1786), Carl Orff (1895), Georg Philipp Telemann (1681), and Johann Christian Bach (1735).

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