1876 - 1957
Josef Casimir Hofmann (originally Józef Kazimierz Hofmann; January 20, 1876 – February 16, 1957) was a Polish-American pianist, composer, music teacher, and inventor. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Josef Hofmann has received more than 286,440 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Josef Hofmann is the 431st most popular musician (up from 517th in 2019), the 385th most popular biography from Poland (up from 462nd in 2019) and the 9th most popular Polish Musician.
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Among musicians, Josef Hofmann ranks 431 out of 2,662. Before him are Van Cliburn, Richard Z. Kruspe, Matthias Jabs, Bud Powell, George Young, and Alice Herz-Sommer. After him are Donovan, Wes Montgomery, Joan Manuel Serrat, Alicia de Larrocha, Phil Rudd, and Joe Perry.
1934 - 2013
HPI: 56.01
Rank: 425
1967 - Present
HPI: 56.01
Rank: 426
1955 - Present
HPI: 55.99
Rank: 427
1924 - 1966
HPI: 55.99
Rank: 428
1946 - 2017
HPI: 55.98
Rank: 429
1903 - 2014
HPI: 55.97
Rank: 430
1876 - 1957
HPI: 55.96
Rank: 431
1946 - Present
HPI: 55.94
Rank: 432
1923 - 1968
HPI: 55.94
Rank: 433
1943 - Present
HPI: 55.94
Rank: 434
1923 - 2009
HPI: 55.91
Rank: 435
1954 - Present
HPI: 55.90
Rank: 436
1950 - Present
HPI: 55.88
Rank: 437
Among people born in 1876, Josef Hofmann ranks 65. Before him are Hideyo Noguchi, Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Tatyana Afanasyeva, Ettore Bastico, Edvard Eriksen, and Nicola Romeo. After him are Prince Harald of Denmark, Viktor Kaplan, Madeleine Vionnet, Paul Masson, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, and Irving Baxter. Among people deceased in 1957, Josef Hofmann ranks 74. Before him are Soemu Toyoda, Malcolm Lowry, Carlos Castillo Armas, Ernst Gräfenberg, Prince Franz of Bavaria, and Heinrich Bär. After him are Dorothy L. Sayers, Washington Luís, Theodor Körner, Irving Baxter, Zhou Xuan, and Rudolf Schmidt.
1876 - 1928
HPI: 56.59
Rank: 59
1876 - 1938
HPI: 56.44
Rank: 60
1876 - 1964
HPI: 56.44
Rank: 61
1876 - 1972
HPI: 56.20
Rank: 62
1876 - 1959
HPI: 56.15
Rank: 63
1876 - 1938
HPI: 55.96
Rank: 64
1876 - 1957
HPI: 55.96
Rank: 65
1876 - 1949
HPI: 55.93
Rank: 66
1876 - 1934
HPI: 55.71
Rank: 67
1876 - 1975
HPI: 55.71
Rank: 68
1876 - 1944
HPI: 55.43
Rank: 69
1876 - 1918
HPI: 55.41
Rank: 70
1876 - 1957
HPI: 55.36
Rank: 71
1885 - 1957
HPI: 56.77
Rank: 68
1909 - 1957
HPI: 56.34
Rank: 69
1914 - 1957
HPI: 56.34
Rank: 70
1881 - 1957
HPI: 56.30
Rank: 71
1875 - 1957
HPI: 56.04
Rank: 72
1913 - 1957
HPI: 55.98
Rank: 73
1876 - 1957
HPI: 55.96
Rank: 74
1893 - 1957
HPI: 55.81
Rank: 75
1869 - 1957
HPI: 55.78
Rank: 76
1873 - 1957
HPI: 55.48
Rank: 77
1876 - 1957
HPI: 55.36
Rank: 78
1920 - 1957
HPI: 55.32
Rank: 79
1886 - 1957
HPI: 55.28
Rank: 80
Among people born in Poland, Josef Hofmann ranks 385 out of 1,454. Before him are I. L. Peretz (1852), Hyacinth of Poland (1185), Nikita Ivanovich Panin (1718), Alexandre Tansman (1897), Horst Mahler (1936), and Adolf Engler (1844). After him are Johannes Bugenhagen (1485), Dita Parlo (1906), Sophia Jagiellon, Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1464), Lubomyr Husar (1933), Artur Schnabel (1882), and Jan Jesenius (1566).
1852 - 1915
HPI: 56.14
Rank: 379
1185 - 1257
HPI: 56.13
Rank: 380
1718 - 1783
HPI: 56.10
Rank: 381
1897 - 1986
HPI: 56.09
Rank: 382
1936 - Present
HPI: 56.07
Rank: 383
1844 - 1930
HPI: 55.97
Rank: 384
1876 - 1957
HPI: 55.96
Rank: 385
1485 - 1558
HPI: 55.92
Rank: 386
1906 - 1971
HPI: 55.89
Rank: 387
1464 - 1512
HPI: 55.89
Rank: 388
1933 - 2017
HPI: 55.88
Rank: 389
1882 - 1951
HPI: 55.87
Rank: 390
1566 - 1621
HPI: 55.87
Rank: 391
Among musicians born in Poland, Josef Hofmann ranks 9. Before him are Henryk Wieniawski (1835), Henryk Szeryng (1918), Wanda Landowska (1879), Krystian Zimerman (1956), Theodor Leschetizky (1830), and Christoph Eschenbach (1940). After him are Artur Schnabel (1882), Bronisław Huberman (1882), Julian Fontana (1810), Mordechai Gebirtig (1877), Xaver Scharwenka (1850), and Johann Gottfried Piefke (1815).
1835 - 1880
HPI: 65.20
Rank: 3
1918 - 1988
HPI: 59.49
Rank: 4
1879 - 1959
HPI: 59.42
Rank: 5
1956 - Present
HPI: 56.95
Rank: 6
1830 - 1915
HPI: 56.30
Rank: 7
1940 - Present
HPI: 56.15
Rank: 8
1876 - 1957
HPI: 55.96
Rank: 9
1882 - 1951
HPI: 55.87
Rank: 10
1882 - 1947
HPI: 55.39
Rank: 11
1810 - 1869
HPI: 53.58
Rank: 12
1877 - 1942
HPI: 53.09
Rank: 13
1850 - 1924
HPI: 52.42
Rank: 14
1815 - 1884
HPI: 51.80
Rank: 15