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Joseph Jongen

1873 - 1953

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Marie Alphonse Nicolas Joseph Jongen (14 December 1873 – 12 July 1953) was a Belgian organist, composer, and music educator. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Jongen has received more than 87,764 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Joseph Jongen is the 702nd most popular composer (up from 788th in 2019), the 370th most popular biography from Belgium (up from 376th in 2019) and the 25th most popular Belgian Composer.

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  • 53.96

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Joseph Jongen ranks 702 out of 1,451. Before him are Josef Bohuslav Foerster, Nicolas-Charles Bochsa, Florian Leopold Gassmann, Francisco Guerrero, Ciprian Porumbescu, and Alonso Mudarra. After him are Karol Lipiński, Antonio Rosetti, Franz Lachner, Aloysia Weber, Edison Denisov, and Armando Trovajoli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Joseph Jongen ranks 86. Before him are Auguste Chevalier, John Flanagan, Leon Czolgosz, Thomas Curtis, Carl Flesch, and Dámaso Berenguer. After him are Daisy, Princess of Pless, Ramón Castillo, Jaap Eden, Marija Jurić Zagorka, Gyula Peidl, and Richard Wilhelm. Among people deceased in 1953, Joseph Jongen ranks 78. Before him are Sergey Belyavsky, Hjalmar Hammarskjöld, Jim Thorpe, Hilaire Belloc, Dámaso Berenguer, and Holger Pedersen. After him are Alexander Vasiliev, Lev Mekhlis, Ernst Reuter, Xu Beihong, Jan Czochralski, and Titta Ruffo.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Joseph Jongen ranks 370 out of 1,190. Before him are Edgar P. Jacobs (1904), Arnulf, Count of Holland (951), Lambert Lombard (1505), Pierre Harmel (1911), Jean Ray (1887), and Marcel Broodthaers (1924). After him are Lucas van Valckenborch (1535), Gaston Reiff (1921), Wilfried Van Moer (1945), José van Dam (1940), Hubert Van Innis (1866), and Aelbrecht Bouts (1450).

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Among COMPOSERS In Belgium

Among composers born in Belgium, Joseph Jongen ranks 25. Before him are Charles Auguste de Bériot (1802), Guillaume Lekeu (1870), François-Joseph Fétis (1784), Johannes Ciconia (1370), Philippe Herreweghe (1947), and Hucbald (840). After him are Wim Mertens (1953), Philippe de Monte (1521), Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens (1823), Giaches de Wert (1535), Peter Benoit (1834), and Henri Pousseur (1929).

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