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Pauline Viardot

1821 - 1910

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Pauline Viardot (pronounced [po.lin vjaʁ.do]; 18 July 1821 – 18 May 1910) was a French dramatic mezzo-soprano, composer and pedagogue of Spanish descent. Born Michelle Ferdinande Pauline García, she came from a musical family and took up music at a young age. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pauline Viardot has received more than 297,430 page views. Her biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia. Pauline Viardot is the 209th most popular composer (down from 181st in 2019), the 1,004th most popular biography from France (down from 825th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular French Composer.

Pauline Viardot was a French mezzo-soprano and composer. She is most famous for being the first female to sing at the Paris Opera.

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  • 300k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 68.04

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.67

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Pauline Viardot ranks 209 out of 1,451. Before her are Alexander von Zemlinsky, Michael Praetorius, Gilles Binchois, Alessandro Marcello, Steve Reich, and Angelo Badalamenti. After her are James Horner, Josef Suk, Franz von Suppé, Niccolò Piccinni, Howard Shore, and Francesco Landini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1821, Pauline Viardot ranks 13. Before her are Lola Montez, Elizabeth Blackwell, Auguste Mariette, Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria, Louis Vuitton, and Richard Francis Burton. After her are Johann Josef Loschmidt, Arthur Cayley, Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Andrew Kim Taegon, Anita Garibaldi, and Nikolay Nekrasov. Among people deceased in 1910, Pauline Viardot ranks 22. Before her are Luigi Lucheni, Léon Walras, Huo Yuanjia, Elizabeth Blackwell, Giovanni Schiaparelli, and Jules Renard. After her are An Jung-geun, Stanislao Cannizzaro, Karl Lueger, William Holman Hunt, Albert Anker, and Carl Reinecke.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pauline Viardot ranks 1,004 out of 6,770. Before her are Pierre-Charles Villeneuve (1763), Jacques Cassini (1677), Jacques Hadamard (1865), Jean Moulin (1899), Georges Brassens (1921), and René Girard (1923). After her are Leonard of Noblac (496), Alice Guy-Blaché (1873), Raymond Poulidor (1936), Claude Louis Hector de Villars (1653), Nicolas Chauvin (1790), and Julien Green (1900).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Pauline Viardot ranks 33. Before her are Darius Milhaud (1892), Pierre Boulez (1925), Michel Legrand (1932), Léonin (1135), Francis Lai (1932), and Philippe de Vitry (1291). After her are Lili Boulanger (1893), Ernest Chausson (1855), Charles-Marie Widor (1844), Albert Roussel (1869), Pierre Schaeffer (1910), and Jacques Ibert (1890).

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