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Paul Ben-Haim

1897 - 1984

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Paul Ben-Haim (or Paul Ben-Chaim, Hebrew: פאול בן חיים) (5 July 1897 – 14 January 1984) was an Israeli composer. Born Paul Frankenburger in Munich, Germany, he studied composition with Friedrich Klose and he was assistant conductor to Bruno Walter and Hans Knappertsbusch from 1920 to 1924. He served as conductor at Augsburg from 1924 to 1931, and afterwards devoted himself to teaching and composition, including teaching at the Shulamit Conservatory in Tel Aviv, Israel. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Ben-Haim has received more than 77,191 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Paul Ben-Haim is the 782nd most popular composer (up from 802nd in 2019), the 2,935th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,916th in 2019) and the 120th most popular German Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Paul Ben-Haim ranks 782 out of 1,216. Before him are Antoine Brumel, Václav Tomášek, Claude Balbastre, André Caplet, Johann Gottlieb Graun, and Nie Er. After him are Jan Kalivoda, Johann Schobert, Edward MacDowell, Alexander Tcherepnin, Galina Ustvolskaya, and Johann Andreas Stein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Paul Ben-Haim ranks 150. Before him are Manlio Brosio, Paul Gallico, Nikolaus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Oldenburg, Gerardo Matos Rodríguez, Zhang Guotao, and Walter Pidgeon. After him are Levon Mirzoyan, Marion Davies, Lampião, Dirk Stikker, Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, and Paavo Talvela. Among people deceased in 1984, Paul Ben-Haim ranks 105. Before him are Trygve Bratteli, Big Mama Thornton, Adam Malik, Ansel Adams, Walter Pidgeon, and Manuel Fleitas Solich. After him are Uwe Johnson, Toni Turek, William Powell, J. B. Priestley, Manès Sperber, and Jorge Guillén.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Paul Ben-Haim ranks 2,935 out of 6,142. Before him are Reiner Klimke (1936), Lorenz Heister (1683), Freimut Börngen (1930), Otto Pfister (1937), Karl Krumbacher (1856), and Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (1769). After him are Alfred Schwarzmann (1912), Ottmar Mergenthaler (1854), Georg Eberhard Rumphius (1627), Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland (1762), Karl Weyprecht (1838), and Louis Eugene, Duke of Württemberg (1731).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Paul Ben-Haim ranks 120. Before him are Johann Krieger (1651), Anton Walter (1752), Johann Friedrich Agricola (1720), Hans von Koessler (1853), Johann Rosenmüller (1619), and Werner Egk (1901). After him are Johann Andreas Stein (1728), Johann Walter (1496), Julius Röntgen (1855), Johann Jacob Bach (1682), Udo Zimmermann (1943), and Robert Volkmann (1815).

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