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Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga

1806 - 1826

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Juan Crisóstomo Jacobo Antonio de Arriaga y Balzola (27 January 1806 – 17 January 1826) was a Spanish Basque composer. He was nicknamed "the Spanish Mozart" after he died, because, like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, he was both a child prodigy and an accomplished composer who died young. They also shared the same first and second baptismal names; and they shared the same birthday (due to both having been born on the feast of St. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga has received more than 107,701 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga is the 455th most popular composer (down from 367th in 2019), the 602nd most popular biography from Spain (down from 462nd in 2019) and the 10th most popular Spanish Composer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 110k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.41

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.18

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga has had the most page views in the with 17,491 views, followed by English (11,715), and German (3,159). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Basque (36,150.00%), Catalan (97.48%), and Galician (74.80%)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga ranks 455 out of 1,451. Before him are Johann Ludwig Bach, Leroy Anderson, Pierre de la Rue, Moritz Moszkowski, Bernhard Crusell, and Emilio de' Cavalieri. After him are Christoph Graupner, Johann Gottfried Walther, Franck Pourcel, Georgy Sviridov, Hans Pfitzner, and Mélanie Bonis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1806, Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga ranks 21. Before him are Charles Gleyre, Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle, Johan Vilhelm Snellman, Louis III, Grand Duke of Hesse, Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play, and Duchenne de Boulogne. After him are Antoine Wiertz, John A. Roebling, William, Duke of Brunswick, Karl Friedrich Mohr, Juliette Drouet, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Among people deceased in 1826, Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga ranks 20. Before him are Levin August von Bennigsen, Frederica of Baden, Nikolay Karamzin, Marie-Guillemine Benoist, Johann Elert Bode, and Louis-Gabriel Suchet. After him are Franz Danzi, Friedrich Krupp, Johann Baptist von Spix, François-Joseph Talma, Nikolay Rumyantsev, and Conrad Malte-Brun.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga ranks 602 out of 3,355. Before him are Juande Ramos (1954), Sancha of Castile, Queen of Aragon (1154), Elisenda of Montcada (1292), Álvaro de Bazán, 1st Marquess of Santa Cruz (1526), Ignacio Zuloaga (1870), and Juan Carreño de Miranda (1614). After him are Gerard Piqué (1987), Mateo Alemán (1547), Fernando Vérgez Alzaga (1945), Eduardo Martínez Somalo (1927), Víctor Valdés (1982), and Sabino Arana (1865).

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Among COMPOSERS In Spain

Among composers born in Spain, Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga ranks 10. Before him are Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548), Enrique Granados (1867), Jordi Savall (1941), Antonio Soler (1729), Joaquín Turina (1882), and Federico Mompou (1893). After him are Gaspar Sanz (1640), Antonio de Cabezón (1510), Sebastián Iradier (1809), Vicente Martín y Soler (1754), Luis de Milán (1500), and Diego Ortiz (1510).

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