1894 - 1979
Paul Dessau (19 December 1894 – 28 June 1979) was a German composer and conductor. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Dessau has received more than 76,558 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Paul Dessau is the 879th most popular composer (down from 844th in 2019), the 3,255th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,030th in 2019) and the 134th most popular German Composer.
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Among composers, Paul Dessau ranks 879 out of 1,216. Before him are Alexei Lvov, Salvatore Sciarrino, Giovanni Battista Bassani, Trevor Jones, Felix Draeseke, and István Kertész. After him are Vítězslava Kaprálová, Théodore Gouvy, Ludwig Thuille, Heinrich Albert, Princess Amalie of Saxony, and Alexander Serov.
1798 - 1870
HPI: 50.91
Rank: 873
1947 - Present
HPI: 50.88
Rank: 874
1650 - 1716
HPI: 50.87
Rank: 875
1949 - Present
HPI: 50.87
Rank: 876
1835 - 1913
HPI: 50.85
Rank: 877
1929 - 1973
HPI: 50.83
Rank: 878
1894 - 1979
HPI: 50.81
Rank: 879
1915 - 1940
HPI: 50.81
Rank: 880
1819 - 1898
HPI: 50.79
Rank: 881
1861 - 1907
HPI: 50.78
Rank: 882
1604 - 1651
HPI: 50.77
Rank: 883
1794 - 1870
HPI: 50.75
Rank: 884
1820 - 1871
HPI: 50.74
Rank: 885
Among people born in 1894, Paul Dessau ranks 140. Before him are Magda Julin, Olive Thomas, Tibor Déry, C. R. Swart, Jean Rostand, and Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay. After him are David Butler, Kurt Blome, Mae Marsh, Edgar Jung, Georges Carpentier, and Vicente Rojo Lluch. Among people deceased in 1979, Paul Dessau ranks 128. Before him are Kurt Jooss, Georges Florovsky, Antonio Caggiano, Leonid Bykov, Ethel Smith, and Alfred Deller. After him are David Butler, Ivar Johansson, Pedro Arico Suárez, Ludwig Renn, Issa Pliyev, and Amedeo Nazzari.
1894 - 1990
HPI: 51.20
Rank: 134
1894 - 1920
HPI: 51.10
Rank: 135
1894 - 1977
HPI: 51.08
Rank: 136
1894 - 1982
HPI: 51.06
Rank: 137
1894 - 1977
HPI: 51.03
Rank: 138
1894 - 1950
HPI: 50.86
Rank: 139
1894 - 1979
HPI: 50.81
Rank: 140
1894 - 1979
HPI: 50.75
Rank: 141
1894 - 1969
HPI: 50.57
Rank: 142
1894 - 1968
HPI: 50.56
Rank: 143
1894 - 1934
HPI: 50.46
Rank: 144
1894 - 1975
HPI: 50.32
Rank: 145
1894 - 1966
HPI: 50.29
Rank: 146
1901 - 1979
HPI: 51.41
Rank: 122
1893 - 1979
HPI: 51.23
Rank: 123
1889 - 1979
HPI: 51.18
Rank: 124
1928 - 1979
HPI: 51.01
Rank: 125
1907 - 1979
HPI: 50.97
Rank: 126
1912 - 1979
HPI: 50.88
Rank: 127
1894 - 1979
HPI: 50.81
Rank: 128
1894 - 1979
HPI: 50.75
Rank: 129
1903 - 1979
HPI: 50.69
Rank: 130
1908 - 1979
HPI: 50.46
Rank: 131
1889 - 1979
HPI: 50.39
Rank: 132
1903 - 1979
HPI: 50.34
Rank: 133
1907 - 1979
HPI: 50.28
Rank: 134
Among people born in Germany, Paul Dessau ranks 3,255 out of 6,142. Before him are Siegfried Rauch (1932), Friedrich Wetter (1928), Augustus William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1662), Otto Witte (1872), Ludowika Jakobsson (1884), and Johann Baptist Zimmermann (1680). After him are Prince Adalbert of Prussia (1811), Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler (1811), Princess Louise Sophie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1866), Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher (1817), Albert Bassermann (1867), and Richard Sammel (1960).
1932 - 2018
HPI: 50.83
Rank: 3,249
1928 - Present
HPI: 50.83
Rank: 3,250
1662 - 1731
HPI: 50.83
Rank: 3,251
1872 - 1958
HPI: 50.82
Rank: 3,252
1884 - 1968
HPI: 50.82
Rank: 3,253
1680 - 1758
HPI: 50.82
Rank: 3,254
1894 - 1979
HPI: 50.81
Rank: 3,255
1811 - 1873
HPI: 50.81
Rank: 3,256
1811 - 1877
HPI: 50.80
Rank: 3,257
1866 - 1952
HPI: 50.79
Rank: 3,258
1817 - 1894
HPI: 50.79
Rank: 3,259
1867 - 1952
HPI: 50.77
Rank: 3,260
1960 - Present
HPI: 50.77
Rank: 3,261
Among composers born in Germany, Paul Dessau ranks 134. Before him are Johann Gottlieb Naumann (1741), Moritz Hauptmann (1792), Vincent Lübeck (1654), Heinrich Bach (1615), Cornelius Gurlitt (1820), and Felix Draeseke (1835). After him are Heinrich Albert (1604), Princess Amalie of Saxony (1794), Paul Lincke (1866), Franz Tunder (1614), Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch (1736), and Ramin Djawadi (1974).
1741 - 1801
HPI: 51.14
Rank: 128
1792 - 1868
HPI: 51.13
Rank: 129
1654 - 1740
HPI: 51.02
Rank: 130
1615 - 1692
HPI: 50.99
Rank: 131
1820 - 1901
HPI: 50.95
Rank: 132
1835 - 1913
HPI: 50.85
Rank: 133
1894 - 1979
HPI: 50.81
Rank: 134
1604 - 1651
HPI: 50.77
Rank: 135
1794 - 1870
HPI: 50.75
Rank: 136
1866 - 1946
HPI: 50.74
Rank: 137
1614 - 1667
HPI: 50.55
Rank: 138
1736 - 1800
HPI: 50.42
Rank: 139
1974 - Present
HPI: 50.37
Rank: 140