COMPOSER

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 55,233 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Selim Palmgren is the 829th most popular composer (up from 849th in 2019), the 135th most popular biography from Finland (down from 127th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Finnish Composer.

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  • 55k

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  • 52.45

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.53

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.62

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Selim Palmgren ranks 829 out of 1,451. Before him are Alexander Mosolov, John Taverner, Käbi Laretei, Johann Friedrich Reichardt, Vincent Lübeck, and Alfred Bruneau. After him are Simeon ten Holt, Ferenc Farkas, Muslim Magomayev, Princess Amalie of Saxony, Salvatore Sciarrino, and Nikos Skalkottas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Selim Palmgren ranks 118. Before him are Karl Buresch, Walther Ritz, Takeo Arishima, Louis Marcoussis, Emmy Destinn, and Sergio Osmeña. After him are Paul Renner, André Caplet, Inigo Campioni, Yemelyan Yaroslavsky, Lina Stern, and Victor Segalen. Among people deceased in 1951, Selim Palmgren ranks 93. Before him are Edgar Rubin, Fritz Busch, Fumiko Hayashi, Pedro Salinas, Robert Broom, and José Enrique Varela. After him are André Gobert, Mohammad-Taqi Bahar, Reggie Walker, László Almásy, John Paine, and Karl Koller.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Selim Palmgren ranks 135 out of 751. Before him are Gustaf John Ramstedt (1873), Juho Vennola (1872), Leo Kinnunen (1943), Gunnar Höckert (1910), Aimo Lahti (1896), and Elias Katz (1901). After him are Klaus Fleming (1535), Carl Johan Adlercreutz (1759), Anders Johan Lexell (1740), Hugo Österman (1892), Juha Sipilä (1961), and Antti Hyvärinen (1932).

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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), Kaija Saariaho (1952), and Oskar Merikanto (1868). After him are Martin Wegelius (1846), Erkki Aaltonen (1910), Leevi Madetoja (1887), Kalevi Aho (1949), Toivo Kuula (1883), and Joonas Kokkonen (1921).

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