COMPOSER

Krzysztof Komeda

1931 - 1969

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Krzysztof Trzciński (27 April 1931 – 23 April 1969), known professionally as Krzysztof Komeda, was a Polish film music composer and jazz pianist. Perhaps best known for his work in film scores, Komeda wrote the scores for Roman Polanski’s films Knife in the Water (1962), Cul-de-sac (1966), The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967), and Rosemary’s Baby (1968). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Krzysztof Komeda has received more than 236,004 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Krzysztof Komeda is the 685th most popular composer (up from 694th in 2019), the 575th most popular biography from Poland (down from 558th in 2019) and the 21st most popular Polish Composer.

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  • 240k

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  • 54.22

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.00

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Krzysztof Komeda has had the most page views in the with 77,107 views, followed by English (26,091), and German (6,108). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Esperanto (171.54%), Estonian (121.97%), and Southern Azerbaijani (95.83%)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Krzysztof Komeda ranks 685 out of 1,451. Before him are Joseph Szigeti, Leó Weiner, Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg, Shunsuke Kikuchi, Giovanni Battista Vitali, and Eduard Tubin. After him are Marc'Antonio Ingegneri, Alexander Tcherepnin, Hucbald, Andreas Werckmeister, Xavier Cugat, and Johann Andreas Stein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Krzysztof Komeda ranks 189. Before him are Rubens de Falco, Atsuko Ikeda, Ted Kotcheff, George Maciunas, Shunsuke Kikuchi, and Iajuddin Ahmed. After him are Fred Brooks, John Gavin, Dritëro Agolli, George Vassiliou, Linda Nochlin, and Mamie Van Doren. Among people deceased in 1969, Krzysztof Komeda ranks 89. Before him are Josef Blösche, Leonard Woolf, Carlos Marighella, Mark Bernes, Georges Catroux, and Peter van Eyck. After him are Max Weinreich, Léon Scieur, John Wyndham, Eduardo Mondlane, Jeffrey Hunter, and Willy Mairesse.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Krzysztof Komeda ranks 575 out of 1,694. Before him are Joachim Lelewel (1786), Stanisław Ryłko (1945), Kazimierz Fajans (1887), Ignacy Krasicki (1735), Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann (1819), and Peter van Eyck (1911). After him are Isaac Deutscher (1907), Caspar Schwenckfeld (1490), Tadeusz Kutrzeba (1885), Bella Darvi (1928), Hilary Koprowski (1916), and Edward Ochab (1906).

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Among COMPOSERS In Poland

Among composers born in Poland, Krzysztof Komeda ranks 21. Before him are Johann Adam Hiller (1728), Alexandre Tansman (1897), Zbigniew Preisner (1955), Johann Gottlieb Goldberg (1727), Franz Waxman (1906), and Johann Schobert (1720). After him are Karol Lipiński (1790), Wolfgang Schmieder (1901), Josef Tal (1910), Andrzej Panufnik (1914), Mykhailo Verbytskyi (1815), and Carl Schuricht (1880).

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