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Klaus Schulze

1947 - 2022

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Klaus Schulze (4 August 1947 – 26 April 2022) was a German electronic music pioneer, composer and musician. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Klaus Schulze has received more than 965,520 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Klaus Schulze is the 301st most popular composer (up from 382nd in 2019), the 1,218th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,490th in 2019) and the 47th most popular German Composer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 970k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.34

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.59

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Klaus Schulze ranks 301 out of 1,451. Before him are Eugen d'Albert, François-Adrien Boieldieu, Eduard Hanslick, Joseph Lanner, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, and Josef Mysliveček. After him are Reynaldo Hahn, Nikolai Myaskovsky, Henri Dutilleux, Bernard Herrmann, Thomas Tallis, and Clément Janequin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Klaus Schulze ranks 83. Before him are Viktor Belenko, Anwar Ibrahim, Ljupko Petrović, Dwight Schultz, Peter Weller, and Martha Nussbaum. After him are Kazimierz Deyna, Princess Christina of the Netherlands, Roger D. Kornberg, James Patterson, F. R. David, and Richard Jenkins. Among people deceased in 2022, Klaus Schulze ranks 69. Before him are Kirstie Alley, Claes Oldenburg, Ivana Trump, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Teresa Berganza, and Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela. After him are Boris Pahor, Cüneyt Arkın, Javier Marías, Sidney Altman, Edward C. Prescott, and Ruggero Deodato.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Klaus Schulze ranks 1,218 out of 7,253. Before him are Henry IV, Duke of Saxony (1473), Princess Christine Louise of Oettingen-Oettingen (1671), Clemens August Graf von Galen (1878), Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal (1862), Johann Peter Eckermann (1792), and Kurt Gerstein (1905). After him are Johannes Valentinus Andreae (1586), Conrad Schumann (1942), Günther Korten (1898), Wilhelm Weitling (1808), Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters (1813), and Maximilian Anton, Hereditary Prince of Thurn and Taxis (1831).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Klaus Schulze ranks 47. Before him are Carl Reinecke (1824), Carl Stamitz (1745), Johann Jakob Froberger (1616), Johann van Beethoven (1740), Friedrich Kuhlau (1786), and Georg Böhm (1661). After him are Christian Gottlob Neefe (1748), Johann Schein (1586), Hans Leo Hassler (1564), Johann Kuhnau (1660), Karl Richter (1926), and Hugo Riemann (1849).

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