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Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson

1847 - 1927

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Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson (28 June 1847 – 23 February 1927) was an Icelandic composer best known for composing "Lofsöngur", the national anthem of Iceland. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson has received more than 40,954 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson is the 1,174th most popular composer (down from 1,149th in 2019), the 61st most popular biography from Iceland (down from 56th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Icelander Composer.

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  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.90

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson ranks 1,174 out of 1,451. Before him are Francisco Mignone, Jeanne Demessieux, Alf Clausen, Kōsaku Yamada, Michel Colombier, and Valeri Brainin. After him are Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov, Melchior Vulpius, Alberto Nepomuceno, Oskar Kolberg, Adolph Deutsch, and Knudåge Riisager.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1847, Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson ranks 85. Before him are Castro Alves, Hermann Osthoff, Louis Henri Boussenard, Eliška Krásnohorská, Wilhelm Killing, and Emil Holub. After him are Eduardo López de Romaña, Giacomo Bresadola, Marcel Alexandre Bertrand, František Křižík, Vilma Hugonnai, and Lipót Schulhof. Among people deceased in 1927, Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson ranks 116. Before him are Henri Hubert, Friedrich Reinitzer, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, Leonard Nelson, John Henry Davies, and Marie Spartali Stillman. After him are J. B. Bury, Vincenzo Cerulli, Feliciano Viera, Kenjirō Tokutomi, Franz Mertens, and Kristian Prestrud.

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In Iceland

Among people born in Iceland, Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson ranks 61 out of 190. Before him are Ísleifur Gissurarson (1006), Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal (1924), Ásgeir Sigurvinsson (1955), Hermann Jónasson (1896), Jón Kalman Stefánsson (1963), and Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir (1958). After him are Einar Már Guðmundsson (1954), Hallgrímur Helgason (1959), Þorsteinn Pálsson (1947), Hrafn Gunnlaugsson (1948), Bjarni Benediktsson (1970), and Jóhann Hafstein (1915).

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Among COMPOSERS In Iceland

Among composers born in Iceland, Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson ranks 2. Before him are Jón Leifs (1899).

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