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Reynaldo Hahn

1874 - 1947

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Reynaldo Hahn de Echenagucia (9 August 1874 – 28 January 1947) was a Venezuelan-born French composer, conductor, music critic, and singer. He is best known for his songs – mélodies – of which he wrote more than 100. Hahn was born in Caracas but his family moved to Paris when he was a child, and he lived most of his life there. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Reynaldo Hahn has received more than 374,321 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Reynaldo Hahn is the 302nd most popular composer (up from 305th in 2019), the 10th most popular biography from Venezuela (down from 9th in 2019) and the most popular Venezuelan Composer.

Reynaldo Hahn is most famous for his operas, his compositions, and his translations.

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  • 370k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.34

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.17

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.04

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Reynaldo Hahn ranks 302 out of 1,451Before him are François-Adrien Boieldieu, Eduard Hanslick, Joseph Lanner, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Josef Mysliveček, and Klaus Schulze. After him are Nikolai Myaskovsky, Henri Dutilleux, Bernard Herrmann, Thomas Tallis, Clément Janequin, and Cécile Chaminade.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Reynaldo Hahn ranks 42Before him are Abbas II of Egypt, Joseph Erlanger, Henri Guisan, Auguste Perret, Charles Lightoller, and Ellery Harding Clark. After him are Princess Elisabeth Marie of Bavaria, Charles Ives, Vagn Walfrid Ekman, John D. Rockefeller Jr., Otto Mueller, and Prince Jean, Duke of Guise. Among people deceased in 1947, Reynaldo Hahn ranks 48Before him are Herbert Backe, Hjalmar Siilasvuo, Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz, Karel Čurda, Pyotr Krasnov, and Franz Seldte. After him are Prince Eugen, Duke of Närke, P. D. Ouspensky, Franz Böhme, Victor Serge, Dorothea Binz, and Ananda Coomaraswamy.

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In Venezuela

Among people born in Venezuela, Reynaldo Hahn ranks 10 out of 183Before him are Nicolás Maduro (1962), Francisco de Miranda (1750), Antonio José de Sucre (1795), Baruj Benacerraf (1920), Carolina Herrera (1939), and Rafael Caldera (1916). After him are Carlos Andrés Pérez (1922), Rómulo Betancourt (1908), Juan José Flores (1800), Ramón José Velásquez (1916), Marcos Pérez Jiménez (1914), and Juan Vicente Gómez (1857).

Among COMPOSERS In Venezuela

Among composers born in Venezuela, Reynaldo Hahn ranks 1