COMPOSER

Peter Cornelius

1824 - 1874

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Carl August Peter Cornelius (24 December 1824 – 26 October 1874) was a German composer, writer about music, poet and translator. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Cornelius has received more than 103,745 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 29 in 2019). Peter Cornelius is the 509th most popular composer (down from 471st in 2019), the 2,004th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,810th in 2019) and the 77th most popular German Composer.

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  • 100k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.64

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.71

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Peter Cornelius ranks 509 out of 1,451. Before him are Maddalena Casulana, Aleksandra Pakhmutova, Ethel Smyth, Alexandre Desplat, Alexandre Tansman, and Princess Cecilia of Sweden. After him are Joachim Raff, Giuseppe Gazzaniga, Christian Sinding, Alexandre Guilmant, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, and Carmine Coppola.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1824, Peter Cornelius ranks 31. Before him are Kuno Fischer, Francesc Pi i Margall, Johann Wilhelm Hittorf, Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Karl-Maria Kertbeny, and Leland Stanford. After him are Louis II, Grand Duke of Baden, Maria Beatrix of Austria-Este, George MacDonald, Count Karl Sigmund von Hohenwart, Gustave Boulanger, and Nana Sahib. Among people deceased in 1874, Peter Cornelius ranks 20. Before him are August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, Moritz von Jacobi, Constantin von Tischendorf, Cochise, Hans Christian Lumbye, and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes. After him are Howard Staunton, Ilija Garašanin, Countess of Ségur, Peter Andreas Hansen, Otto Hesse, and Johann Heinrich von Mädler.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Peter Cornelius ranks 2,004 out of 7,253. Before him are Erich Rudorffer (1917), Martin Luther (1895), Princess Elisabeth of Prussia (1815), George Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1539), Louis V, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1577), and Marianne Koch (1931). After him are Eduard Rüppell (1794), Violante Beatrice of Bavaria (1673), Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (1797), Frederick VI, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (1617), Agnes of Hesse (1527), and Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse (1787).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Peter Cornelius ranks 77. Before him are Johann Christoph Pepusch (1667), Albert Lortzing (1801), Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach (1759), Johann Kirnberger (1721), Simon Mayr (1763), and Franz Abt (1819). After him are Carl Friedrich Zelter (1758), Curt Sachs (1881), Fredrik Pacius (1809), Johann Christoph Bach (1671), Gershon Kingsley (1922), and Hermann Abendroth (1883).

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