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Julian Fontana

1810 - 1869

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Julian (or Jules) Fontana (31 July 1810 — 23 December 1869) was a Polish pianist, composer, lawyer, author, translator, and entrepreneur, best remembered as a close friend and musical executor of Polish composer Frédéric Chopin. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Julian Fontana has received more than 53,617 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Julian Fontana is the 735th most popular musician (down from 601st in 2019), the 649th most popular biography from Poland (down from 527th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Polish Musician.

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  • 54k

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  • 53.11

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.67

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.52

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Julian Fontana ranks 735 out of 3,175. Before him are Ivan Mládek, Ron McGovney, Hilton Valentine, Tim Buckley, Steve Jones, and Jørgen Ingmann. After him are David Garrett, Kerry King, Fritz Busch, Johann Kaspar Mertz, Bix Beiderbecke, and Jim Hall.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1810, Julian Fontana ranks 48. Before him are Pierre Edmond Boissier, Stanko Vraz, Alexandre Calame, Alexandre Herculano, Wilhelm, Duke of Urach, and Norbert Burgmüller. After him are Peter Andreas Munch, L. L. Langstroth, George Robert Waterhouse, Johann Löwenthal, Charles Forbes René de Montalembert, and Abraham Geiger. Among people deceased in 1869, Julian Fontana ranks 30. Before him are Giulia Grisi, Carl Reichenbach, Constantine, Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen, Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille, Wilhelm, Duke of Urach, and Mehmed Fuad Pasha. After him are Juraj Haulik, Juan Almonte, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Adolphe Niel, Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély, and Théophile Thoré-Bürger.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Julian Fontana ranks 649 out of 1,694. Before him are Julian Marchlewski (1866), Hanna Suchocka (1946), Sophia Jagiellon, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1522), Karl Decker (1897), Kurt Sanderling (1912), and Andrzej Panufnik (1914). After him are Duchess Frederica of Württemberg (1765), Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski (1595), C. L. Gloger (1803), Aaron Kosminski (1865), Władysław Żmuda (1954), and Jan Tomaszewski (1948).

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Among MUSICIANS In Poland

Among musicians born in Poland, Julian Fontana ranks 12. Before him are Artur Schnabel (1882), Krystian Zimerman (1956), Theodor Leschetizky (1830), Josef Hofmann (1876), Christoph Eschenbach (1940), and Bronisław Huberman (1882). After him are Julie Guicciardi (1782), Xaver Scharwenka (1850), Johann Gottfried Piefke (1815), Mordechai Gebirtig (1877), Holger Czukay (1938), and Theodor Kullak (1818).

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