COMPOSER

Karel Husa

1921 - 2016

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Karel Husa (August 7, 1921 – December 14, 2016) was a Czech-born classical composer and conductor, winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Music and 1993 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karel Husa has received more than 105,785 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Karel Husa is the 1,258th most popular composer, the 690th most popular biography from Czechia and the 58th most popular Czech Composer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 110k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.22

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.84

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Karel Husa ranks 1,258 out of 1,451. Before him are Maurice Greene, Paul Creston, Artur Lemba, Ludomir Różycki, Anthony van Hoboken, and Rhys Chatham. After him are Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Vladimir Martynov, Mariano Mores, David Raksin, Samuel Arnold, and Junichi Masuda.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Karel Husa ranks 361. Before him are Patricia Wrightson, Theodore Van Kirk, Jimmy Giuffre, Joann Lõssov, Alexis Smith, and Stanisław Nagy. After him are Jesse Helms, Mohammad Mohammadullah, Ettore Chimeri, Stan Mortensen, William Alston, and Susan Peters. Among people deceased in 2016, Karel Husa ranks 410. Before him are Aki Schmidt, Anton Yelchin, Ken Howard, Alice Drummond, Tom Kibble, and Lothar Späth. After him are Michael Herr, Teatao Teannaki, Fidel Uriarte, Joe Alaskey, Mariano Mores, and Jacques Rouffio.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Karel Husa ranks 690 out of 1,200. Before him are Hugo Simon (1942), Jakub Arbes (1840), Vojtěch Bradáč (1913), Jan Jindra (1932), Jiří Weiss (1913), and Ferdinand Bauer (1760). After him are Jiří Čadek (1935), Patrik Berger (1973), Emil Pažický (1927), Vladimír Vašíček (1919), Jiří Rusnok (1960), and Tadeusz Kraus (1932).

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Among COMPOSERS In Czechia

Among composers born in Czechia, Karel Husa ranks 58. Before him are Petr Eben (1929), Jaromír Weinberger (1896), František Škroup (1801), Rudolf Friml (1879), Vilém Blodek (1834), and Wenzel Müller (1767). After him are Walter Susskind (1913), and Vladimír Franz (1959).

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