COMPOSER

Manuel Ponce

1886 - 1948

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Manuel María Ponce Cuéllar (8 December 1882 – 24 April 1948), known in Mexico as Manuel M. Ponce, was a Mexican composer active in the 20th century. His work as a composer, music educator and scholar of Mexican music connected the concert scene with a mostly forgotten tradition of popular song and Mexican folklore. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Manuel Ponce has received more than 234,349 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Manuel Ponce is the 538th most popular composer (down from 518th in 2019), the 92nd most popular biography from Mexico (down from 89th in 2019) and the most popular Mexican Composer.

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  • 230k

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  • 56.28

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.45

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.19

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Manuel Ponce ranks 538 out of 1,451. Before him are Edgard Varèse, Luigi Rossi, Paul Bowles, Louis Couperin, George Antheil, and Vicente Martín y Soler. After him are Maxim Berezovsky, Ernest Guiraud, Gara Garayev, Pietro Nardini, Gershon Kingsley, and Johannes Ciconia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Manuel Ponce ranks 84. Before him are May Ziade, Henry H. Arnold, Prince Sixtus of Bourbon-Parma, Prince John Konstantinovich of Russia, Hitoshi Imamura, and Yevgeni Preobrazhensky. After him are Sholem Schwarzbard, Edwin Fischer, Hiroshi Ōshima, Shūmei Ōkawa, Olaf Stapledon, and Edward Weston. Among people deceased in 1948, Manuel Ponce ranks 69. Before him are Radola Gajda, Hasan Salama, Jacques Feyder, Therese Brandl, Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma, and Harry Dexter White. After him are Arshile Gorky, Paul Wegener, Solomon Mikhoels, Fakhri Pasha, Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, and Kâzım Karabekir.

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In Mexico

Among people born in Mexico, Manuel Ponce ranks 92 out of 729. Before him are Enrique Peña Nieto (1966), Adolfo López Mateos (1909), Adolfo de la Huerta (1881), Kiki Camarena (1947), Chimalpopoca (1397), and José Sánchez del Río (1913). After him are Pedro Rodríguez (1940), Juan Gabriel (1950), Ce Acatl Topiltzin (947), El Santo (1917), Miguel Alemán Valdés (1900), and Rosie Reyes (1939).

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Among COMPOSERS In Mexico

Among composers born in Mexico, Manuel Ponce ranks 1. After him are Agustín Lara (1897), Carlos Chávez (1899), Silvestre Revueltas (1899), Juventino Rosas (1868), and Arturo Márquez (1950).

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