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Johann Adam Hiller

1728 - 1804

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Johann Adam Hiller (25 December 1728 – 16 June 1804) was a German composer, conductor and writer on music, regarded as the creator of the Singspiel, an early form of German opera. In many of these operas he collaborated with the poet Christian Felix Weiße. Hiller was a teacher who encouraged musical education for women, his pupils including Elisabeth Mara and Corona Schröter. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Adam Hiller has received more than 53,084 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Johann Adam Hiller is the 492nd most popular composer (up from 572nd in 2019), the 403rd most popular biography from Poland (up from 467th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Polish Composer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 53k

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  • 56.92

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Johann Adam Hillers by language

Over the past year Johann Adam Hiller has had the most page views in the with 5,778 views, followed by German (4,138), and Spanish (1,915). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Persian (135.61%), Esperanto (49.78%), and Hungarian (49.40%)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Johann Adam Hiller ranks 492 out of 1,451. Before him are Dora Pejačević, Karel Svoboda, Simon Mayr, Arno Babajanian, Giuseppe Sarti, and Einojuhani Rautavaara. After him are Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Antonio de Cabezón, Gian Francesco Malipiero, Franz Abt, Erwin Schulhoff, and Kaija Saariaho.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1728, Johann Adam Hiller ranks 16. Before him are Ali Bey al-Kabir, Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony, Antoine Baumé, John Hunter, Robert Adam, and Charles Eugene, Duke of Württemberg. After him are Shah Alam II, Kirill Razumovski, Matthew Boulton, Oliver Goldsmith, Samuel Wallis, and Carlo Allioni. Among people deceased in 1804, Johann Adam Hiller ranks 17. Before him are Princess Carolina of Parma, Jean-Charles Pichegru, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Jazzar Pasha, Antoine Baumé, and Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie. After him are Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, 8th Dalai Lama, Martin Vahl, Georges Cadoudal, Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre, and Aagje Deken.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Johann Adam Hiller ranks 403 out of 1,694. Before him are Johannes Bugenhagen (1485), Heinz Kessler (1920), Ivan Vyhovsky (1608), Horst Mahler (1936), Adam Stefan Sapieha (1867), and Gerhard Klopfer (1905). After him are Florian Znaniecki (1882), Mieszko I Tanglefoot (1132), Krystian Zimerman (1956), Anny Ondra (1903), Włodzimierz Smolarek (1957), and Hyacinth Graf Strachwitz (1893).

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Among COMPOSERS In Poland

Among composers born in Poland, Johann Adam Hiller ranks 15. Before him are Grażyna Bacewicz (1909), Mieczysław Weinberg (1919), Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska (1834), Maria Szymanowska (1789), Józef Elsner (1769), and Moritz Moszkowski (1854). After him are Alexandre Tansman (1897), Zbigniew Preisner (1955), Johann Gottlieb Goldberg (1727), Franz Waxman (1906), Johann Schobert (1720), and Krzysztof Komeda (1931).

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