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Othmar Schoeck

1886 - 1957

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Othmar Schoeck (1 September 1886 – 8 March 1957) was a Swiss Romantic classical composer, opera composer, musician, and conductor. He was known mainly for his considerable output of art songs and song cycles, though he also wrote a number of operas, notably his one-act Penthesilea, which was premiered at the Semperoper in Dresden in 1927 and revived at the Lucerne Festival in 1999. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Othmar Schoeck has received more than 74,336 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Othmar Schoeck is the 931st most popular composer (down from 903rd in 2019), the 365th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 334th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Swiss Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Othmar Schoeck ranks 931 out of 1,451. Before him are Théodore Gouvy, Xavier Montsalvatge, Ralph Benatzky, Carl Schuricht, Vissarion Shebalin, and Ivan Larionov. After him are Harald Sæverud, Erkki Aaltonen, Leopold Hofmann, Jacopo da Bologna, Peter Benoit, and Juventino Rosas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Othmar Schoeck ranks 175. Before him are Toivo Mikael Kivimäki, H.D., Kálmán Darányi, Hiratsuka Raichō, Ernest Burgess, and Grigory Neujmin. After him are Aloïse Corbaz, Siegfried Sassoon, Felix Timmermans, Franz Josef Popp, Austin Osman Spare, and Lucien Gaudin. Among people deceased in 1957, Othmar Schoeck ranks 131. Before him are Bugs Moran, Frank País, Sadri Maksudi Arsal, Augusto Genina, Ralph Benatzky, and John Sealy Townsend. After him are Grace Coolidge, James Whale, Óscar Domínguez, William Cameron Menzies, Oldřich Duras, and Josephine Hull.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Othmar Schoeck ranks 365 out of 1,015. Before him are Andreas Vollenweider (1953), Antonio Ciseri (1821), Daniel Schmid (1941), Luuk de Jong (1990), Françoise Giroud (1916), and Stéphane Chapuisat (1969). After him are Aloïse Corbaz (1886), Maria Bernarda Bütler (1848), Alexander Schallenberg (1969), Alphons Egli (1924), Theodore Bibliander (1500), and Richard Dürr (1938).

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Among COMPOSERS In Switzerland

Among composers born in Switzerland, Othmar Schoeck ranks 14. Before him are Pancho Vladigerov (1899), Heinz Holliger (1939), Heinrich Sutermeister (1910), Ludwig Senfl (1486), Louis Niedermeyer (1802), and Klaus Huber (1924). After him are Gottfried von Einem (1918), and Hans Huber (1852).

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