COMPOSER

Louis Durey

1888 - 1979

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Louis Edmond Durey (French: [dyʁɛ]; 27 May 1888 – 3 July 1979) was a French composer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louis Durey has received more than 80,305 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Louis Durey is the 434th most popular composer (up from 445th in 2019), the 1,898th most popular biography from France (down from 1,845th in 2019) and the 67th most popular French Composer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 80k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.77

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.59

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Louis Durey ranks 434 out of 1,451. Before him are Raimonds Pauls, Johannes Tinctoris, Princess Philippine Charlotte of Prussia, Hans Werner Henze, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, and Joseph Kosma. After him are Heinrich Marschner, Federico Mompou, Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco, Bruno Maderna, Karl Goldmark, and Bill Conti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Louis Durey ranks 72. Before him are Antonio Sant'Elia, Wellington Koo, Prince Oskar of Prussia, Henry A. Wallace, Inayatullah Khan, and Jan Syrový. After him are Franz Pfeffer von Salomon, Werner Jaeger, Valerian Kuybyshev, Clara Campoamor, Fritz Reiner, and Du Yuesheng. Among people deceased in 1979, Louis Durey ranks 65. Before him are Richard Rodgers, Elizabeth Bishop, Konstantin Simonov, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Yukio Tsuda, and Jacques Mesrine. After him are Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Aleksei N. Leontiev, Yuen Siu-tien, Friedrich Ebert Jr., Jean-Marie Villot, and Stein Rokkan.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis Durey ranks 1,898 out of 6,770. Before him are François Périer (1919), Marcel Petiot (1897), Jean Hyppolite (1907), Charles-André van Loo (1705), Charles de Bourbon (1523), and Jean-Baptiste Bessières (1768). After him are Daniel Revenu (1942), Alain Juppé (1945), Paul Pelliot (1878), Herleva (1003), Alphonse Allais (1854), and Edward, Count of Savoy (1284).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Louis Durey ranks 67. Before him are Yo-Yo Ma (1955), Jacques-Martin Hotteterre (1673), Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe (1640), Georg Muffat (1653), André Jolivet (1905), and Étienne Méhul (1763). After him are Franck Pourcel (1913), Mélanie Bonis (1858), Antoine Busnois (1430), Théodore Dubois (1837), Louis-Nicolas Clérambault (1676), and Maurice Duruflé (1902).

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