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Richard Addinsell

1904 - 1977

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Richard Stewart Addinsell (13 January 1904 – 14 November 1977) was an English composer, best known for film music, primarily his Warsaw Concerto, composed for the 1941 film Dangerous Moonlight (also known under the later title Suicide Squadron). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Addinsell has received more than 167,680 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Addinsell is the 931st most popular composer (down from 727th in 2019), the 2,567th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,058th in 2019) and the 37th most popular British Composer.

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  • 21

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  • 5.10

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  • 2.56

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Richard Addinsell ranks 931 out of 1,216Before him are August Enna, Vissarion Shebalin, Johann von Herbeck, Valentino Fioravanti, Friedrich Kiel, and Ignaz Holzbauer. After him are Alessandro Striggio, Johann Joseph Abert, André Gedalge, Nannette Streicher, Girolamo Diruta, and Sándor Végh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Richard Addinsell ranks 174Before him are Xenophon Zolotas, Goffredo Petrassi, Edgar G. Ulmer, Berta Karlik, Lauri Virtanen, and Armando Castellazzi. After him are Hertta Kuusinen, Abdullah Goran, Srečko Kosovel, Lili Damita, Grete Stern, and Ibrahim Moustafa. Among people deceased in 1977, Richard Addinsell ranks 130Before him are Hans Erich Nossack, Sabah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Otto Deßloch, Bobojon Ghafurov, Ronnie Van Zant, and Eugen Wüster. After him are Juan Carlos Calvo, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Siegfried Buback, Neco, Mwambutsa IV of Burundi, and Gummo Marx.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Richard Addinsell ranks 2,567 out of 7,765Before him are Alexander Mackenzie (1822), Siegfried Sassoon (1886), Sydney Chapman (1888), Rachel Roberts (1927), Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein (1867), and Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer (1841). After him are Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside (1880), Phil Read (1939), Alan Lee (1947), Sam Allardyce (1954), Mark Lindsay Chapman (1954), and Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent (1301).

Among COMPOSERS In United Kingdom

Among composers born in United Kingdom, Richard Addinsell ranks 37Before him are Charles Burney (1726), Stanley Myers (1930), Arnold Bax (1883), John Tavener (1944), Matthew Locke (1621), and Christopher Hogwood (1941). After him are Patrick Doyle (1953), Harry Gregson-Williams (1961), John Rutter (1945), Hubert Parry (1848), Cyril Scott (1879), and Michael Tippett (1905).