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Sigfrid Karg-Elert

1877 - 1933

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Sigfrid Karg-Elert (November 21, 1877 – April 9, 1933) was a German composer in the early twentieth century, best known for his compositions for pipe organ and reed organ. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sigfrid Karg-Elert has received more than 106,114 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Sigfrid Karg-Elert is the 646th most popular composer (up from 682nd in 2019), the 2,557th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,609th in 2019) and the 104th most popular German Composer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 110k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.77

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.83

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Sigfrid Karg-Elert has had the most page views in the with 12,378 views, followed by German (6,620), and Japanese (2,678). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Low Saxon (115.79%), Simple English (78.88%), and Korean (51.82%)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Sigfrid Karg-Elert ranks 646 out of 1,451. Before him are Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Joseph Leopold Eybler, Jean-François Dandrieu, Herms Niel, Carl Zeller, and Karl Michael Ziehrer. After him are Aristides Quintilianus, Orazio Vecchi, Francesco Provenzale, Boris Blacher, Ferdinand Hérold, and Alexander Gretchaninov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Sigfrid Karg-Elert ranks 67. Before him are Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, Wilhelm Filchner, Henri Breuil, Rosika Schwimmer, Erik Scavenius, and Ivy Lee. After him are Renée Vivien, Sergei Bortkiewicz, James Montgomery Flagg, Alfredo Guzzoni, Alice B. Toklas, and Luke Voyno-Yasenetsky. Among people deceased in 1933, Sigfrid Karg-Elert ranks 51. Before him are Pierre Paul Émile Roux, Sen Katayama, Hermann von François, Theodor Lessing, Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, and Frank Jarvis. After him are Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria, Giovanni Giacometti, Princess Mathilde of Saxony, Albert Apponyi, Takiji Kobayashi, and Princess Elisabeth of Anhalt.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Sigfrid Karg-Elert ranks 2,557 out of 7,253. Before him are Frederick Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1591), Princess Henriëtte Amalia of Anhalt-Dessau (1666), Countess Amalie Elisabeth of Hanau-Münzenberg (1602), Hedwig of Holstein (1260), Robert Heinrich Wagner (1895), and Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein (1870). After him are Adelaide, Abbess of Vilich (960), Ernest Augustus II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1737), Lothar Emmerich (1941), Herbert Hainer (1954), Margravine Elisabeth Sophie of Brandenburg (1674), and Paul Giesler (1895).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Sigfrid Karg-Elert ranks 104. Before him are Helmut Lachenmann (1935), Johann Nikolaus Forkel (1749), Adolf von Henselt (1814), Max Richter (1966), Karl Amadeus Hartmann (1905), and Herms Niel (1888). After him are Johann Friedrich Agricola (1720), Ferdinand David (1810), Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg (1718), Andreas Werckmeister (1645), Johann Andreas Stein (1728), and Conradin Kreutzer (1780).

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