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Selim Palmgren

1878 - 1951

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Selim Gustaf Adolf Palmgren (16 February 1878 – 13 December 1951) was a Finnish composer, pianist, and conductor. Palmgren was born in Pori, Finland, February 16, 1878. He studied at the Conservatory in Helsinki from 1895 to 1899, then continued his piano studies in Berlin with Ansorge, Berger and Busoni. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Selim Palmgren has received more than 52,004 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Selim Palmgren is the 850th most popular composer (up from 857th in 2019), the 127th most popular biography from Finland (up from 132nd in 2019) and the 6th most popular Finnish Composer.

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  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.53

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.74

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Selim Palmgren ranks 850 out of 1,216. Before him are Alfred Bruneau, Charles Burney, Carl Schuricht, Loyset Compère, Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský, and Aribert Reimann. After him are Johann Gottlieb Naumann, Gérard Grisey, Stanley Myers, Moritz Hauptmann, Isabella Leonarda, and Vatroslav Lisinski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Selim Palmgren ranks 119. Before him are Konrad Mägi, Takeo Arishima, Agner Krarup Erlang, Ernst Alexanderson, Karl Buresch, and Paul Renner. After him are Egon Friedell, Anna Coleman Ladd, Charles Dvorak, Emmy Destinn, Chen Jiongming, and Ioannis Rallis. Among people deceased in 1951, Selim Palmgren ranks 88. Before him are Karl Koller, Fumiko Hayashi, Robert Broom, Mohammad-Taqi Bahar, Bernhard Kellermann, and Ernest Bevin. After him are Lippo Hertzka, Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth, Fréhel, István Friedrich, Peter Cheyney, and Angelos Sikelianos.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Selim Palmgren ranks 127 out of 642. Before him are Anders Johan Lexell (1740), Jörn Donner (1933), Valtteri Bottas (1989), Erik Heinrichs (1890), Paavo Talvela (1897), and Timo Salonen (1951). After him are Gunnar Höckert (1910), Gunnar Nordström (1881), Kalevi Sorsa (1930), Liisi Oterma (1915), Mauno Pekkala (1890), and Heikki A. Alikoski (1912).

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Among COMPOSERS In Finland

Among composers born in Finland, Selim Palmgren ranks 6. Before him are Jean Sibelius (1865), Bernhard Crusell (1775), Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928), Oskar Merikanto (1868), and Kaija Saariaho (1952). After him are Leevi Madetoja (1887), Erkki Aaltonen (1910), Martin Wegelius (1846), Toivo Kuula (1883), Kalevi Aho (1949), and Magnus Lindberg (1958).

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