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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 49,934 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Julian Fontana is the 603rd most popular musician (up from 628th in 2019), the 527th most popular biography from Poland (up from 531st in 2019) and the 12th most popular Polish Musician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.67

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.45

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Julian Fontana ranks 603 out of 2,662. Before him are Tony Sheridan, Lead Belly, Ben Webster, Dick Dale, Hilton Valentine, and Claude Bolling. After him are Elvis Costello, Jeff Buckley, Pierre Rode, David Knopfler, Marty Friedman, and Frank Beard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1810, Julian Fontana ranks 39. Before him are Margaret Fuller, Pierre Edmond Boissier, Karel Hynek Mácha, Christen Købke, Hans Christian Lumbye, and Wilhelm, Duke of Urach. After him are Peter Andreas Munch, Charles Forbes René de Montalembert, Wilhelm Marstrand, Abraham Geiger, Norbert Burgmüller, and Ferdinand David. Among people deceased in 1869, Julian Fontana ranks 24. Before him are Carl Gustav Carus, Carl Reichenbach, Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, John A. Roebling, Christian August II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, and Wilhelm, Duke of Urach. After him are Mehmed Fuad Pasha, Alexandrine Tinné, Constantine, Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen, Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille, Juraj Haulik, and Louis Moreau Gottschalk.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Julian Fontana ranks 527 out of 1,454. Before him are Aleksander Krupa (1947), Beata Szydło (1963), Prince Franz Wilhelm of Prussia (1943), Joachim Meisner (1933), Wolfgang Schmieder (1901), and Maryla Rodowicz (1945). After him are Emil Leon Post (1897), Józef Brandt (1841), Tadeusz Różewicz (1921), Uri Orlev (1931), Olga Boznańska (1865), and Shmuel Eisenstadt (1923).

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Among MUSICIANS In Poland

Among musicians born in Poland, Julian Fontana ranks 12. Before him are Krystian Zimerman (1956), Theodor Leschetizky (1830), Christoph Eschenbach (1940), Josef Hofmann (1876), Artur Schnabel (1882), and Bronisław Huberman (1882). After him are Mordechai Gebirtig (1877), Xaver Scharwenka (1850), Johann Gottfried Piefke (1815), Holger Czukay (1938), Theodor Kullak (1818), and Carl Tausig (1841).

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