COMPOSER

Orlando Gibbons

1583 - 1625

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Orlando Gibbons (bapt. 25 December 1583 – 5 June 1625) was an English composer and keyboard player who was one of the last masters of the English Virginalist School and English Madrigal School. The best known member of a musical family dynasty, by the 1610s he was the leading composer and organist in England, with a career cut short by his sudden death in 1625. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Orlando Gibbons has received more than 366,164 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia. Orlando Gibbons is the 630th most popular composer (down from 583rd in 2019), the 1,747th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,663rd in 2019) and the 24th most popular British Composer.

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  • 370k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.00

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.38

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Orlando Gibbons ranks 630 out of 1,451. Before him are Tomaso Antonio Vitali, Adolf von Henselt, Andrea Falconieri, Claude Goudimel, Riccardo Zandonai, and Max Richter. After him are Stephen Foster, Diego Ortiz, Myroslav Skoryk, Domenico Dragonetti, Eduardo di Capua, and Ernesto Lecuona.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1583, Orlando Gibbons ranks 11. Before him are Axel Oxenstierna, Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba, Pieter Lastman, Jacob De la Gardie, Christian II, Elector of Saxony, and Hayashi Razan. After him are Jan Porcellis, Iskandar Muda, Eleanor of Prussia, Denis Pétau, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, and Joachim Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach. Among people deceased in 1625, Orlando Gibbons ranks 15. Before him are Duchess Anna of Prussia, Giambattista Marino, Mōri Terumoto, Anna Vasa of Sweden, Honoré d'Urfé, and Francisco Gómez de Sandoval, 1st Duke of Lerma. After him are Hans Rottenhammer, John Fletcher, Enno III, Count of East Frisia, Elizabeth of Denmark, Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Ubbo Emmius, and Joachim Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Orlando Gibbons ranks 1,747 out of 8,785. Before him are Margaret Scriven (1912), Owain Glyndŵr (1359), Philip Sidney (1554), Geri Halliwell (1972), Walter Bagehot (1826), and Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick (1475). After him are Kim Wilde (1960), Antony Beevor (1946), William Auld (1924), Pieter de Molijn (1595), Fergus Suter (1857), and Thom Yorke (1968).

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Among COMPOSERS In United Kingdom

Among composers born in United Kingdom, Orlando Gibbons ranks 24. Before him are Neville Marriner (1924), Thomas Arne (1710), Albert Ketèlbey (1875), Pasquale Anfossi (1727), Malcolm Arnold (1921), and Jeremiah Clarke (1674). After him are William Boyce (1711), John Bull (1562), Arthur Sullivan (1842), Arnold Bax (1883), Frank Bridge (1879), and John Taverner (1490).

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