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Josef Suk

1929 - 2011

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Josef Suk (8 August 1929 – 7 July 2011) was a Czech violinist, violist, chamber musician and conductor. In his home country he carried the title of National Artist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Josef Suk has received more than 17,255 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Josef Suk is the 595th most popular musician (up from 673rd in 2019), the 288th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 310th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Czech Musician.

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  • 17k

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  • 53.68

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  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.64

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Josef Suk ranks 595 out of 2,662Before him are Walter Gieseking, Alan Wilder, Nikki Sixx, Curtis Mayfield, İdil Biret, and Willy DeVille. After him are Robert de Visée, Tony Sheridan, Lead Belly, Ben Webster, Dick Dale, and Hilton Valentine.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Josef Suk ranks 170Before him are Luis García Meza, Edison Denisov, Anne Ramsey, Fred Sinowatz, Aleksandar Petrović, and Lee Hazlewood. After him are Elio Petri, Camilo Torres Restrepo, Hal Ashby, Arnold Palmer, Gaston Glock, and Guillermo Cabrera Infante. Among people deceased in 2011, Josef Suk ranks 116Before him are Charles Napier, Dennis Oppenheim, Peter Alexander, Lidia Gueiler Tejada, Violetta Villas, and David Wilkerson. After him are Inese Jaunzeme, Jackie Cooper, Nikolai Andrianov, Kurt Sanderling, Lazar Mojsov, and Édouard Glissant.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Josef Suk ranks 288 out of 973Before him are Svatopluk, Duke of Bohemia (1100), Otakar Ševčík (1852), Paul Wranitzky (1756), Karel Jaromír Erben (1811), Florian Leopold Gassmann (1729), and Alois Jirásek (1851). After him are Václav Vorlíček (1930), Jan Fischer (1951), Vladislaus III, Duke of Bohemia (1160), Tomáš Špidlík (1919), Otto V, Margrave of Brandenburg-Salzwedel (1246), and Lubomír Štrougal (1924).

Among MUSICIANS In Czechia

Among musicians born in Czechia, Josef Suk ranks 9Before him are David Popper (1843), Wojciech Żywny (1756), Alice Herz-Sommer (1903), Rudolf Serkin (1903), Jan Hammer (1948), and Jan Kubelík (1880). After him are Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst (1812), Ivan Mládek (1942), Eduard Nápravník (1839), Miroslav Vitouš (1947), Ignaz Brüll (1846), and Alexander Dreyschock (1818).