COMPOSER

Pancho Vladigerov

1899 - 1978

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Pancho Haralanov Vladigerov (or Wladigeroff, Wladigerow, Vladiguerov, Vladigueroff; Bulgarian: Панчо Хараланов Владигеров [ˈpant͡ʃo xɐrɐˈɫanov vɫɐdiˈɡɛrof]; 13 March 1899 – 8 September 1978) was a Bulgarian composer, pedagogue, and pianist.Vladigerov is arguably the most influential Bulgarian composer of all time. He was one of the first to successfully combine idioms of Bulgarian folk music and classical music. Part of the so-called Second Generation Bulgarian Composers, he was among the founding members of the Bulgarian Contemporary Music Society (1933), which later became the Union of Bulgarian Composers. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pancho Vladigerov has received more than 86,146 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Pancho Vladigerov is the 623rd most popular composer (down from 564th in 2019), the 234th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 207th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Swiss Composer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 86k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.14

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Pancho Vladigerov has had the most page views in the with 22,790 views, followed by English (9,646), and Spanish (2,109). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Basque (77.55%), Malagasy (70.65%), and Cantonese (70.48%)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Pancho Vladigerov ranks 623 out of 1,451. Before him are Morton Feldman, Alois Hába, Francesco Canova da Milano, Jeremiah Clarke, Léon Boëllmann, and Johann Nikolaus Forkel. After him are Tomaso Antonio Vitali, Adolf von Henselt, Andrea Falconieri, Claude Goudimel, Riccardo Zandonai, and Max Richter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Pancho Vladigerov ranks 115. Before him are Zaki al-Arsuzi, Eugene Ormandy, Café Filho, Domingo Tejera, John Barbirolli, and Soraya Tarzi. After him are Lovro von Matačić, Princess Nadezhda of Bulgaria, Hermann von Oppeln-Bronikowski, Sherm Clark, Noël Coward, and Alexander Tcherepnin. Among people deceased in 1978, Pancho Vladigerov ranks 82. Before him are Salvador de Madariaga, Felicia Montealegre Bernstein, Gaston Julia, Prince Roman Petrovich of Russia, Luigi Allemandi, and Gunnar Nilsson. After him are Armin T. Wegner, Gabriel Ramanantsoa, Viggo Brun, Raúl Alberto Lastiri, Edmundo Suárez, and Leo Genn.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Pancho Vladigerov ranks 234 out of 1,015. Before him are Pierre Jeanneret (1896), Jean-André Deluc (1727), Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1825), Jean Vanier (1928), Heinrich Glarean (1488), and Emil Brunner (1889). After him are Eugène Grasset (1845), Emma Jung (1882), Louis of Cyprus (1436), Josias Braun-Blanquet (1884), Ignazio Cassis (1961), and Jean Ziegler (1934).

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Among COMPOSERS In Switzerland

Among composers born in Switzerland, Pancho Vladigerov ranks 8. Before him are Sigismond Thalberg (1812), Frank Martin (1890), Ernest Bloch (1880), Ernest Ansermet (1883), Grock (1880), and Joachim Raff (1822). After him are Heinz Holliger (1939), Heinrich Sutermeister (1910), Ludwig Senfl (1486), Louis Niedermeyer (1802), Klaus Huber (1924), and Othmar Schoeck (1886).

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