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Paul Dessau

1894 - 1979

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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.

Memorability Metrics

  • 77k

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  • 50.81

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.49

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.62

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Paul Dessau ranks 879 out of 1,216Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Paul Dessau ranks 140Before 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 128Before 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.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Paul Dessau ranks 3,255 out of 6,142Before 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).

Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Paul Dessau ranks 134Before 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).