MUSICIAN

Paul Tortelier

1914 - 1990

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Paul Tortelier (21 March 1914 – 18 December 1990) was a French cellist and composer. After an outstanding student career at the Conservatoire de Paris he played in orchestras in France and the US before the Second World War. After the war he became a well-known soloist, playing in countries round the globe. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Tortelier has received more than 104,832 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 24 in 2019). Paul Tortelier is the 620th most popular musician (down from 581st in 2019), the 2,781st most popular biography from France (down from 2,583rd in 2019) and the 29th most popular French Musician.

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  • 54.37

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.28

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.98

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Paul Tortelier ranks 620 out of 3,175. Before him are Tom Araya, Artie Shaw, Jelly Roll Morton, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Vagif Mustafazadeh, and Napoleon Orda. After him are Hillel Slovak, Zequinha de Abreu, Steve Howe, Bob Sinclar, Evgeny Kissin, and Clive Burr.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Paul Tortelier ranks 125. Before him are Yahya Khan, Taisen Deshimaru, Sun Ra, Lyman Spitzer, Koichi Oita, and Brunó Ferenc Straub. After him are Georgy Babakin, Infante Gonzalo of Spain, Saul Steinberg, Lakshmi Sahgal, Adriaan Blaauw, and Sergej Kraigher. Among people deceased in 1990, Paul Tortelier ranks 100. Before him are Hayedeh, Semyon Kurkotkin, Shigeo Shingo, J. C. R. Licklider, Gerald Bull, and Hans Freudenthal. After him are Stefano Casiraghi, Berta Karlik, Xavier Cugat, Rashad Khalifa, Patriarch Pimen I of Moscow, and Wolfgang Schmieder.

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In France

Among people born in France, Paul Tortelier ranks 2,781 out of 6,770. Before him are Alexis Bouvard (1767), Georges Catroux (1877), Pierre Brasseur (1905), Nicolas Henri, Duke of Orléans (1607), Vladimir Posner (1934), and Michel Camdessus (1933). After him are Olivier Martinez (1966), Bob Sinclar (1969), Bertrand de Jouvenel (1903), Hippolyte Bayard (1801), Ernest Duchesne (1874), and Christian Marquand (1927).

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Among MUSICIANS In France

Among musicians born in France, Paul Tortelier ranks 29. Before him are Jacques Loussier (1934), Michel Petrucciani (1962), Claude Bolling (1930), Guy Bonnet (1945), Jean-Delphin Alard (1815), and Claude-Michel Schönberg (1944). After him are Bob Sinclar (1969), Walter Gieseking (1895), Pierre Rode (1774), Christian Ferras (1933), Nicolas de Grigny (1672), and Paul de Senneville (1933).

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