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Johann Crüger

1598 - 1662

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Johann Crüger (9 April 1598 – 23 February 1662) was a German composer of well-known hymns. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Crüger has received more than 73,549 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Johann Crüger is the 551st most popular composer (up from 670th in 2019), the 2,163rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,571st in 2019) and the 84th most popular German Composer.

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  • 74k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.11

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.71

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Johann Crüger ranks 551 out of 1,451. Before him are Hans Krása, Luis Bacalov, Frederick Delius, Jean-François Le Sueur, Hermann Abendroth, and Stephen Sondheim. After him are William Walton, Bálint Bakfark, Pierre Henry, Henri Duparc, Stevan Mokranjac, and Eleni Karaindrou.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1598, Johann Crüger ranks 9. Before him are Bonaventura Cavalieri, François Mansart, Eleonora Gonzaga, Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Maarten Tromp, and William, Duke of Saxe-Weimar. After him are Christian I, Count Palatine of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler, Michael van Langren, Daniele Crespi, Chen Hongshou, Bartholomeus Breenbergh, and Georg Stiernhielm. Among people deceased in 1662, Johann Crüger ranks 9. Before him are Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia, Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, Ferdinand Charles, Archduke of Austria, Christina Magdalena of the Palatinate-Zweibrücken, Zhu Youlang, and William, Duke of Saxe-Weimar. After him are Alfonso IV d'Este, Duke of Modena, Honoré II, Prince of Monaco, Adriaen van de Venne, François le Métel de Boisrobert, Massasoit, and Henry Lawes.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Crüger ranks 2,163 out of 7,253. Before him are Siegfried von Feuchtwangen (1300), Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach (1715), Hermann Abendroth (1883), Sami Khedira (1987), Frederick Augustus II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg (1852), and Martin Sandberger (1911). After him are Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia (1767), Princess Dorothea Charlotte of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1661), Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben (1730), Andre Gunder Frank (1929), Andreas Möller (1967), and Heinrich Eberbach (1895).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Johann Crüger ranks 84. Before him are Carl Friedrich Zelter (1758), Curt Sachs (1881), Fredrik Pacius (1809), Johann Christoph Bach (1671), Gershon Kingsley (1922), and Hermann Abendroth (1883). After him are Helmut Walcha (1907), Friedrich Wieck (1785), Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918), Hermann Levi (1839), Georg Joseph Vogler (1749), and Julius Benedict (1804).

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