COMPOSER

Peter Arnold Heise

1830 - 1879

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Peter Heise (11 February 1830 – 12 September 1879) was a Danish composer, best known for the opera Drot og Marsk (King and Marshal). Heise's parents tried to press him into becoming a lawyer, but he scored highly in music at school, so he changed direction. He began writing songs at the age of 19. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Arnold Heise has received more than 19,149 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Peter Arnold Heise is the 1,186th most popular composer (down from 1,083rd in 2019), the 502nd most popular biography from Denmark (down from 423rd in 2019) and the 9th most popular Danish Composer.

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  • 15

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Peter Arnold Heise ranks 1,186 out of 1,451Before him are Knudåge Riisager, Cyril Scott, Francisco Asenjo Barbieri, Gustav Ernesaks, Tadeusz Baird, and Andrey Petrov. After him are Hilding Rosenberg, Hans Gál, Henk Badings, Mikhail Gnessin, Shlomo Mintz, and Elza Ibrahimova.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1830, Peter Arnold Heise ranks 60Before him are Juan Manuel Blanes, Karl Klindworth, Clements Markham, Clémence Royer, James G. Blaine, and Charles Wyville Thomson. After him are Karolina Světlá, Jaroslav Čermák, Viktor Madarász, Daniel Oliver, Yrjö Sakari Yrjö-Koskinen, and Lina Morgenstern. Among people deceased in 1879, Peter Arnold Heise ranks 53Before him are William Lloyd Garrison, Johann von Lamont, William Froude, Marguerite Bays, Édouard Spach, and Jakob Stämpfli. After him are László Paál, Epameinondas Deligeorgis, Edward Blore, Jean Baptiste Boisduval, John Bell Hood, and Henry Charles Carey.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Peter Arnold Heise ranks 502 out of 1,032Before him are Tage Reedtz-Thott (1839), Tommy Seebach (1949), Jesper Olsen (1961), Dario Campeotto (1939), Leif Mortensen (1946), and Henrik Larsen (1966). After him are Peer Hultberg (1935), Caroline Wozniacki (1990), Johan Henrik Deuntzer (1845), Astrid Henning-Jensen (1914), Thomas Gravesen (1976), and Hugo Egmont Hørring (1842).

Among COMPOSERS In Denmark

Among composers born in Denmark, Peter Arnold Heise ranks 9Before him are Hans Christian Lumbye (1810), Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann (1805), Rued Langgaard (1893), Per Nørgård (1932), Emil Hartmann (1836), and Vagn Holmboe (1909). After him are Jesper Kyd (1972), Hans Abrahamsen (1952), Poul Ruders (1949), and Frederik Magle (1977).