1869 - 1935
Soghomon Soghomonian, ordained and commonly known as Komitas (Armenian: Կոմիտաս; 8 October [O.S. 26 September] 1869 – 22 October 1935), was an Ottoman-Armenian priest, musicologist, composer, arranger, singer, and choirmaster, who is considered the founder of the Armenian national school of music. He is recognized as one of the pioneers of ethnomusicology. Orphaned at a young age, Komitas was taken to Etchmiadzin, Armenia's religious center, where he received education at the Gevorgian Seminary. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Komitas has received more than 323,438 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Komitas is the 185th most popular composer (up from 221st in 2019), the 300th most popular biography from Turkey (up from 334th in 2019) and the most popular Turkish Composer.
Komitas is most famous for being the composer of the Armenian national anthem.
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Among composers, Komitas ranks 185 out of 1,216. Before him are Johann Stamitz, Giuseppe Torelli, Pauline Viardot, Michael Haydn, John Field, and Bohuslav Martinů. After him are Howard Shore, Siegfried Wagner, Luciano Berio, Louis Spohr, Max Reger, and Johann Joachim Quantz.
1717 - 1757
HPI: 63.72
Rank: 179
1658 - 1709
HPI: 63.70
Rank: 180
1821 - 1910
HPI: 63.69
Rank: 181
1737 - 1806
HPI: 63.69
Rank: 182
1782 - 1837
HPI: 63.60
Rank: 183
1890 - 1959
HPI: 63.57
Rank: 184
1869 - 1935
HPI: 63.50
Rank: 185
1946 - Present
HPI: 63.49
Rank: 186
1869 - 1930
HPI: 63.48
Rank: 187
1925 - 2003
HPI: 63.48
Rank: 188
1784 - 1859
HPI: 63.45
Rank: 189
1873 - 1916
HPI: 63.41
Rank: 190
1697 - 1773
HPI: 63.38
Rank: 191
Among people born in 1869, Komitas ranks 19. Before him are Kasturba Gandhi, Maud of Wales, Rudolf Otto, Frederick Trump, Calouste Gulbenkian, and Christian Lous Lange. After him are Siegfried Wagner, Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria, Henri Désiré Landru, Emilio Aguinaldo, Prince George of Greece and Denmark, and Felix Salten. Among people deceased in 1935, Komitas ranks 23. Before him are Paul Dukas, Henri Barbusse, Jane Addams, Hugo de Vries, Hugo Junkers, and John Macleod. After him are Lij Iyasu of Ethiopia, Henri Pirenne, Josef Suk, Mihajlo Pupin, Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin, and Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche.
1869 - 1944
HPI: 65.21
Rank: 13
1869 - 1938
HPI: 64.30
Rank: 14
1869 - 1937
HPI: 64.07
Rank: 15
1869 - 1918
HPI: 64.06
Rank: 16
1869 - 1955
HPI: 64.02
Rank: 17
1869 - 1938
HPI: 63.87
Rank: 18
1869 - 1935
HPI: 63.50
Rank: 19
1869 - 1930
HPI: 63.48
Rank: 20
1869 - 1955
HPI: 63.26
Rank: 21
1869 - 1922
HPI: 62.42
Rank: 22
1869 - 1964
HPI: 62.40
Rank: 23
1869 - 1957
HPI: 62.02
Rank: 24
1869 - 1945
HPI: 61.53
Rank: 25
1865 - 1935
HPI: 66.64
Rank: 17
1873 - 1935
HPI: 66.21
Rank: 18
1860 - 1935
HPI: 65.48
Rank: 19
1848 - 1935
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 20
1859 - 1935
HPI: 63.80
Rank: 21
1876 - 1935
HPI: 63.51
Rank: 22
1869 - 1935
HPI: 63.50
Rank: 23
1895 - 1935
HPI: 63.21
Rank: 24
1862 - 1935
HPI: 62.52
Rank: 25
1874 - 1935
HPI: 62.31
Rank: 26
1858 - 1935
HPI: 62.06
Rank: 27
1855 - 1935
HPI: 61.95
Rank: 28
1846 - 1935
HPI: 61.91
Rank: 29
Among people born in Turkey, Komitas ranks 300 out of 1,301. Before him are Theodora (815), John VII Palaiologos (1370), Barsine (-363), Antiochus VII Sidetes (-159), Aratus (-315), and Seleucus IV Philopator (-217). After him are Köprülüzade Fazıl Ahmed Pasha (1635), Constantine Laskaris (1170), Ptolemy Philadelphus (-36), Alexander Ypsilantis (1792), Thrasymachus (-459), and Nebahat Çehre (1944).
815 - 867
HPI: 63.74
Rank: 294
1370 - 1408
HPI: 63.72
Rank: 295
363 BC - 309 BC
HPI: 63.62
Rank: 296
159 BC - 129 BC
HPI: 63.53
Rank: 297
315 BC - 240 BC
HPI: 63.52
Rank: 298
217 BC - 175 BC
HPI: 63.51
Rank: 299
1869 - 1935
HPI: 63.50
Rank: 300
1635 - 1676
HPI: 63.49
Rank: 301
1170 - 1205
HPI: 63.47
Rank: 302
36 BC - 29 BC
HPI: 63.46
Rank: 303
1792 - 1828
HPI: 63.41
Rank: 304
459 BC - 399 BC
HPI: 63.40
Rank: 305
1944 - Present
HPI: 63.40
Rank: 306
Among composers born in Turkey, Komitas ranks 1. After him are Aristides Quintilianus (150), Tigran Chukhajian (1837), Ahmet Adnan Saygun (1907), Manolis Kalomiris (1883), and Necil Kazım Akses (1908).
1869 - 1935
HPI: 63.50
Rank: 1
150 - 250
HPI: 52.78
Rank: 2
1837 - 1898
HPI: 50.40
Rank: 3
1907 - 1991
HPI: 49.47
Rank: 4
1883 - 1962
HPI: 46.20
Rank: 5
1908 - 1999
HPI: 44.65
Rank: 6