COMPOSER

Jón Leifs

1899 - 1968

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Jón Leifs (born Jón Þorleifsson on 1 May 1899 – 30 July 1968) was an Icelandic composer, pianist, and conductor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jón Leifs has received more than 62,503 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Jón Leifs is the 1,044th most popular composer (down from 905th in 2019), the 47th most popular biography from Iceland (down from 34th in 2019) and the most popular Icelander Composer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 63k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.81

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.96

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Jón Leifs ranks 1,044 out of 1,451. Before him are Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, Ludvig Norman, Adolf Wiklund, Antoine Duhamel, Hubert Parry, and Alessandro Striggio. After him are Kalevi Aho, Manuel Cardoso, Jāzeps Vītols, Otto Jahn, Gustav Lange, and Józef Kozłowski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Jón Leifs ranks 191. Before him are E. B. White, Masujiro Nishida, René Petit, Jean de Brunhoff, Eugeniusz Bodo, and Hart Crane. After him are Miyamoto Yuriko, Alfred Blalock, Arvīds Pelše, Elizabeth Bowen, Jobyna Ralston, and Aldo Nadi. Among people deceased in 1968, Jón Leifs ranks 149. Before him are Leo Huberman, Bruno Chizzo, Alexander Gelfond, Albert Dekker, Suraphol Sombatcharoen, and Charles Bacon. After him are Eivar Widlund, Joseph Pholien, Dorothy Garrod, Edna Ferber, Eben Dönges, and Ruth St. Denis.

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In Iceland

Among people born in Iceland, Jón Leifs ranks 47 out of 190. Before him are Jón Ögmundsson (1052), Hannes Hafstein (1861), Eiður Guðjohnsen (1978), Baltasar Kormákur (1966), Ólafur Thors (1892), and Gunnar Thoroddsen (1910). After him are Geir Hallgrímsson (1925), Saint Thorlak (1133), Vilhjálmur Einarsson (1934), Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson (1963), Eggert Ólafsson (1726), and Einar Benediktsson (1864).

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Among COMPOSERS In Iceland

Among composers born in Iceland, Jón Leifs ranks 1. After him are Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson (1847).

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