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Sigmund Romberg

1887 - 1951

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Sigmund Romberg (July 29, 1887 – November 9, 1951) was a Hungarian-born American composer. He is best known for his musicals and operettas, particularly The Student Prince (1924), The Desert Song (1926) and The New Moon (1928). Early in his career, Romberg was employed by the Shubert brothers to write music for their musicals and revues, including several vehicles for Al Jolson. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sigmund Romberg has received more than 250,352 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Sigmund Romberg is the 1,200th most popular composer (down from 1,134th in 2019), the 554th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 526th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Hungarian Composer.

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  • 22

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Sigmund Romberg ranks 1,200 out of 1,216Before him are Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Henry Lawes, Valeri Brainin, Leigh Harline, Christian Wolff, and Sergei Slonimsky. After him are Spike Jones, Victor Herbert, Cláudio Santoro, Necil Kazım Akses, Thomas Campion, and Leonel Power.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Sigmund Romberg ranks 217Before him are Giorgio Zampori, Hedwig Kohn, Jacob L. Devers, Sid Kimpton, Samuel Eliot Morison, and Erich Hecke. After him are Emil Magnusson, Jerónimo Méndez, Juan Manuel Gálvez, Giuseppe Domenichelli, Emilio Lunghi, and Albert Paris Gütersloh. Among people deceased in 1951, Sigmund Romberg ranks 133Before him are Will Keith Kellogg, Kim Myeong-sun, Jules Berry, Gunnar Lindström, Ernesto Ambrosini, and Yrjö Saarela. After him are Jacques Cariou, Edith Hannam, Harold Kitson, Vsevolod Vishnevsky, Alfredo Baquerizo, and John Sloan.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Sigmund Romberg ranks 554 out of 866Before him are Ferenc Móra (1879), Ede Király (1926), Erzsébet Schaár (1905), Győző Forintos (1935), István Rózsavölgyi (1929), and Győző Kulcsár (1940). After him are Gyula Juhász (1883), Pál Várhidi (1931), Egon Orowan (1902), József Bajza (1804), József Sákovics (1927), and Stanley Jaki (1924).

Among COMPOSERS In Hungary

Among composers born in Hungary, Sigmund Romberg ranks 15Before him are Princess Maria Antonia Koháry (1797), Dora Pejačević (1885), Joseph Szigeti (1892), Leó Weiner (1885), Ferenc Farkas (1905), and István Kertész (1929).