COMPOSER

Oscar Straus

1870 - 1954

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Oscar Nathan Straus (6 March 1870 – 11 January 1954) was a Viennese composer of operettas, film scores, and songs. He also wrote about 500 cabaret songs, chamber music, and orchestral and choral works. His original name was actually Strauss, but for professional purposes he deliberately omitted the final 's'. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Oscar Straus has received more than 8,499 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Oscar Straus is the 480th most popular composer (down from 413th in 2019), the 424th most popular biography from Austria (down from 383rd in 2019) and the 32nd most popular Austrian Composer.

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  • 26

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  • 6.61

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  • 2.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Oscar Straus ranks 480 out of 1,451. Before him are Maurice Duruflé, Zdeněk Fibich, Terry Riley, Remo Giazotto, Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach, and Johann Kirnberger. After him are Igor Markevitch, Charles Auguste de Bériot, Hans Christian Lumbye, Florent Schmitt, Antonio Sacchini, and Dora Pejačević.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Oscar Straus ranks 57. Before him are Ignacio Zuloaga, Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel, Archduchess Margarethe Klementine of Austria, Vítězslav Novák, Alexandre Benois, and Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann. After him are Florent Schmitt, Vladimir Purishkevich, Helge von Koch, Leopold Godowsky, Guillaume Lekeu, and Emil Orlík. Among people deceased in 1954, Oscar Straus ranks 45. Before him are Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels, Günther Quandt, Edwin Howard Armstrong, Ahmed Nihad, Viktor Abakumov, and Gideon Sundback. After him are Lionel Barrymore, Stig Dagerman, Theodor Kaluza, Claude Cahun, Princess Antonia of Luxembourg, and James Hilton.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Oscar Straus ranks 424 out of 1,424. Before him are Jean Améry (1912), Irmfried Eberl (1910), Hans Ledwinka (1878), Johann Nepomuk Karl, Prince of Liechtenstein (1724), Karl-Maria Kertbeny (1824), and Princess Alexandra of Hanover (1882). After him are Johannes Schober (1874), Viktor Kaplan (1876), Willi Boskovsky (1909), Ivan Šubašić (1892), Moritz von Schwind (1804), and Annie Fischer (1914).

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Among COMPOSERS In Austria

Among composers born in Austria, Oscar Straus ranks 32. Before him are Joseph Lanner (1801), Ludwig Ritter von Köchel (1800), Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (1620), Nikolaus I, Prince Esterházy (1714), Johann Joseph Fux (1660), and Robert Stolz (1880). After him are Hans Krása (1899), Georg Christoph Wagenseil (1715), Ernst Krenek (1900), Joseph Hellmesberger Jr. (1855), Robert Fuchs (1847), and Joseph Leopold Eybler (1765).

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