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Otto Nicolai

1810 - 1849

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Carl Otto Ehrenfried Nicolai (9 June 1810 – 11 May 1849) was a German composer, conductor, and one of the founders of the Vienna Philharmonic. Nicolai is best known for his operatic version of Shakespeare's comedy The Merry Wives of Windsor as Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Otto Nicolai has received more than 130,381 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Otto Nicolai is the 247th most popular composer (down from 234th in 2019), the 348th most popular biography from Russia (down from 335th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Russian Composer.

Otto Nicolai was a German composer who is most famous for composing the opera "The Merry Wives of Windsor" in 1849.

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  • 130k

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  • 67.16

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.37

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Otto Nicolai ranks 247 out of 1,451. Before him are Henryk Górecki, Duchess Maria Antonia of Bavaria, Albert Roussel, Alfred Schnittke, Francesco Durante, and Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf. After him are Pierre Schaeffer, Jacques Ibert, Ambroise Thomas, Clemens Krauss, Emmanuel Chabrier, and Francesco Geminiani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1810, Otto Nicolai ranks 14. Before him are Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies, Éliphas Lévi, Alexandre Colonna-Walewski, Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans, Ernst Kummer, and Nikolay Pirogov. After him are Princess Marianne of the Netherlands, Auguste, Duke of Leuchtenberg, Fanny Elssler, Hermann Heinrich Gossen, Francesco Maria Piave, and Elizabeth Gaskell. Among people deceased in 1849, Otto Nicolai ranks 17. Before him are Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner, Charles Albert of Sardinia, Şehzade Abdullah, Heonjong of Joseon, Juliette Récamier, and Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti. After him are Anita Garibaldi, Jan Svatopluk Presl, Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, Juliusz Słowacki, William Miller, and Lajos Batthyány.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Otto Nicolai ranks 348 out of 3,761. Before him are Genndy Tartakovsky (1970), Anatoly Sobchak (1937), Anna Dostoevskaya (1846), The French Angel (1903), Nikolai Trubetzkoy (1890), and Alfred Schnittke (1934). After him are Grigory Orlov (1734), Valentin Serov (1865), Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia (1875), Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov (1806), Nikolai Rubinstein (1835), and Alexander Danilovich Menshikov (1673).

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Among COMPOSERS In Russia

Among composers born in Russia, Otto Nicolai ranks 14. Before him are Alexander Borodin (1833), Mily Balakirev (1837), Mikhail Glinka (1804), Dmitry Kabalevsky (1904), Sofia Gubaidulina (1931), and Alfred Schnittke (1934). After him are Irving Berlin (1888), Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov (1883), Anton Arensky (1861), Sergei Taneyev (1856), Rodion Shchedrin (1932), and Anatoly Lyadov (1855).

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