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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 69,447 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Othmar Schoeck is the 904th most popular composer (down from 759th in 2019), the 335th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 275th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Swiss Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Othmar Schoeck ranks 904 out of 1,216Before him are Marco da Gagliano, Tigran Mansurian, Franz Tunder, Michele Carafa, Franco Donatoni, and Giovanni Maria Nanino. After him are Klaus Huber, Jón Leifs, Silvestre Revueltas, Lev Knipper, Slavko Avsenik, and Francesco Araja.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Othmar Schoeck ranks 161Before him are Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao, Roberto María Ortiz, Jean Hersholt, G. I. Taylor, Ernest Burgess, and Rudolf Belling. After him are Austin Osman Spare, Hiratsuka Raichō, Toivo Mikael Kivimäki, Franz Josef Popp, August Rei, and George Cœdès. Among people deceased in 1957, Othmar Schoeck ranks 125Before him are Augusto Genina, Ramon Magsaysay, Wilhelm Nusselt, Harrison Ford, Elia Abu Madi, and Carl-Gustaf Rossby. After him are Princess Alexandra Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Elizabeth Hesselblad, William Cameron Menzies, Grace Coolidge, John Sealy Townsend, and Norma Talmadge.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Othmar Schoeck ranks 335 out of 876Before him are Louis Niedermeyer (1802), Maria Bernarda Bütler (1848), Moritz Leuenberger (1946), Bertrand Piccard (1958), Simon Ammann (1981), and Romain Grosjean (1986). After him are Marc Surer (1951), Klaus Huber (1924), Pirmin Zurbriggen (1963), Maximilian Ulysses Browne (1705), Andreas Vollenweider (1953), and Walter Hauser (1837).

Among COMPOSERS In Switzerland

Among composers born in Switzerland, Othmar Schoeck ranks 13Before him are Joachim Raff (1822), Pancho Vladigerov (1899), Heinz Holliger (1939), Ludwig Senfl (1486), Heinrich Sutermeister (1910), and Louis Niedermeyer (1802). After him are Klaus Huber (1924), Gottfried von Einem (1918), Rolf Liebermann (1910), and Hans Huber (1852).