COMPOSER

Klaus Huber

1924 - 2017

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Klaus Huber (30 November 1924 – 2 October 2017) was a Swiss composer and academic based in Basel and Freiburg. Among his students were Brian Ferneyhough, Michael Jarrell, Younghi Pagh-Paan, Toshio Hosokawa, Wolfgang Rihm, and Kaija Saariaho. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Klaus Huber has received more than 92,213 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Klaus Huber is the 895th most popular composer (up from 904th in 2019), the 350th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 336th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Swiss Composer.

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  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.54

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.74

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Klaus Huber ranks 895 out of 1,451. Before him are Sándor Veress, Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, Gian Carlo Menotti, Henri Rabaud, Michele Carafa, and Tigran Mansurian. After him are Paul Dessau, Hermann Goetz, Václav Tomášek, Tan Dun, Giaches de Wert, and Anton Stamitz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Klaus Huber ranks 220. Before him are J. J. Johnson, Vilgot Sjöman, Viktor Astafyev, Leslie Phillips, Marga López, and Olivier Gendebien. After him are Mike Bongiorno, Edwin Ernest Salpeter, Martha Hyer, George Segal, Yasuzo Masumura, and Tatyana Lioznova. Among people deceased in 2017, Klaus Huber ranks 221. Before him are Haruo Nakajima, Carlo Caffarra, Henning Jensen, Kurt Moll, Brunhilde Pomsel, and Gregg Allman. After him are Bernard Francis Law, Spencer Johnson, Feliciano Rivilla, Larry Coryell, Barry Dennen, and Li Li-hua.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Klaus Huber ranks 350 out of 1,015. Before him are Liselotte Pulver (1929), Isaac Casaubon (1559), Bertrand Piccard (1958), Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf (1956), François Le Fort (1656), and Gottfried Diener (1926). After him are Ella Maillart (1903), Urs Graf (1485), Heinrich Rudolf Schinz (1777), Albert Heim (1849), Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure (1829), and Henri Schwery (1932).

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Among COMPOSERS In Switzerland

Among composers born in Switzerland, Klaus Huber ranks 13. Before him are Joachim Raff (1822), Pancho Vladigerov (1899), Heinz Holliger (1939), Heinrich Sutermeister (1910), Ludwig Senfl (1486), and Louis Niedermeyer (1802). After him are Othmar Schoeck (1886), Gottfried von Einem (1918), and Hans Huber (1852).

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