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Thomas Arne

1710 - 1778

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Thomas Augustine Arne (; 12 March 1710 – 5 March 1778) was an English composer. He is best known for his patriotic song "Rule, Britannia!" and the song "A-Hunting We Will Go", the latter composed for a 1777 production of The Beggar's Opera, which has since become popular as a folk song and a nursery rhyme. Arne was a leading British theatre composer of the 18th century, working at the West End's Drury Lane and Covent Garden. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Arne has received more than 308,181 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas Arne is the 576th most popular composer (down from 499th in 2019), the 1,601st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,438th in 2019) and the 19th most popular British Composer.

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  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.18

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Thomas Arne ranks 576 out of 1,451. Before him are Franz Doppler, Wilhelm Stenhammar, Fikret Amirov, Rikard Nordraak, Hermann Levi, and Gabriel Pierné. After him are Georg Joseph Vogler, Julius Benedict, Tielman Susato, Albert Ketèlbey, Jean-Joseph de Mondonville, and Pasquale Anfossi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1710, Thomas Arne ranks 12. Before him are András Hadik, Thomas Reid, Thomas Simpson, Mohammed ben Abdallah, Marie-Anne de Cupis de Camargo, and Domenico Alberti. After him are Louise Julie de Mailly-Nesle, William Cullen, Abraham Trembley, Paolo Renier, Princess Luise Dorothea of Saxe-Meiningen, and Princess Amalia of Nassau-Dietz. Among people deceased in 1778, Thomas Arne ranks 11. Before him are Laura Bassi, Anna Maria Mozart, James Hargreaves, Louis Victor, Prince of Carignano, William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, and Étienne-Gabriel Morelly. After him are Alvise Giovanni Mocenigo, Duke Louis of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Francesca Cuzzoni, Charles De Geer, Princess Christine of Hesse-Rotenburg, and Pedro Antonio de Cevallos.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Arne ranks 1,601 out of 8,785. Before him are Orderic Vitalis (1075), Eliza Poe (1787), Harry Kane (1993), David Moyes (1963), George Stubbs (1724), and James Boswell (1740). After him are Aphra Behn (1640), Kenneth Grahame (1859), William Caxton (1422), Sidney Paget (1860), Havelock Ellis (1859), and William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (1738).

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Among COMPOSERS In United Kingdom

Among composers born in United Kingdom, Thomas Arne ranks 19. Before him are Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872), Ethel Smyth (1858), Frederick Delius (1862), William Walton (1902), John Blow (1649), and Neville Marriner (1924). After him are Albert Ketèlbey (1875), Pasquale Anfossi (1727), Malcolm Arnold (1921), Jeremiah Clarke (1674), Orlando Gibbons (1583), and William Boyce (1711).

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