COMPOSER

Karel Svoboda

1938 - 2007

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Karel Svoboda (19 December 1938 – 28 January 2007) was a Czech composer of popular music. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karel Svoboda has received more than 38,515 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Karel Svoboda is the 487th most popular composer (up from 514th in 2019), the 227th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 233rd in 2019) and the 21st most popular Czech Composer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 39k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.98

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.60

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Karel Svoboda ranks 487 out of 1,451. Before him are Igor Markevitch, Charles Auguste de Bériot, Hans Christian Lumbye, Florent Schmitt, Antonio Sacchini, and Dora Pejačević. After him are Simon Mayr, Arno Babajanian, Giuseppe Sarti, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Johann Adam Hiller, and Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Karel Svoboda ranks 134. Before him are Hermann Nitsch, Benjamin Mkapa, Yuri Temirkanov, Anne Perry, Vasyl Stus, and Shotaro Ishinomori. After him are Patrick Bauchau, Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, Jan Assmann, Nayef Hawatmeh, Paul Andreu, and Jesús María Pereda. Among people deceased in 2007, Karel Svoboda ranks 89. Before him are Atle Selberg, Maurice Papon, Denny Doherty, Paul Cohen, Teddy Kollek, and Arawa Kimura. After him are Hrant Dink, Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark, Ralph Asher Alpher, Viliam Schrojf, Dashrath Manjhi, and Gordon Scott.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Karel Svoboda ranks 227 out of 1,200. Before him are Princess Michael of Kent (1945), Silvia Saint (1976), Joseph Škoda (1805), Zdeněk Fibich (1850), Jan Kubelík (1880), and John Henry, Margrave of Moravia (1322). After him are Bretislav II (1100), Conrad I, Duke of Bohemia (1035), Martin of Opava (1300), Erwin Schulhoff (1894), Spytihněv II, Duke of Bohemia (1031), and Josef Abrhám (1939).

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Among COMPOSERS In Czechia

Among composers born in Czechia, Karel Svoboda ranks 21. Before him are Georg Benda (1722), Ignaz Moscheles (1794), Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760), Johann Baptist Wanhal (1739), Vítězslav Novák (1870), and Zdeněk Fibich (1850). After him are Erwin Schulhoff (1894), Pavel Haas (1899), Leopold Koželuch (1747), Franz Xaver Richter (1709), Alois Hába (1893), and Anton Schindler (1795).

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