COMPOSER

Vagn Holmboe

1909 - 1996

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Vagn Gylding Holmboe (Danish pronunciation: [ˈvɑwˀn ˈhʌlmˌpoˀ], 20 December 1909 – 1 September 1996) was a Danish composer and teacher. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vagn Holmboe has received more than 74,267 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Vagn Holmboe is the 1,131st most popular composer (down from 1,011th in 2019), the 466th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 374th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Danish Composer.

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  • 74k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.41

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.70

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Vagn Holmboe ranks 1,131 out of 1,451. Before him are Michael Tippett, Roger Sessions, Walter Braunfels, Henry Bishop, Władysław Żeleński, and Clint Mansell. After him are Hans Huber, Armand Amar, Stevan Hristić, Eddie Meduza, Oskar Sala, and Percy Grainger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Vagn Holmboe ranks 275. Before him are Hilde Domin, James Agee, Eudora Welty, Jaime Lazcano, Mohammad Ali Bogra, and Reinhold Münzenberg. After him are Carlo Agostoni, Saul Alinsky, Massimo Pallottino, Zellig Harris, Margaret Mee, and Juan Carreño. Among people deceased in 1996, Vagn Holmboe ranks 217. Before him are Lola Beltrán, Pasqualino De Santis, Hermann Kesten, Morton Gould, Gabriel Alonso, and Karol Jokl. After him are Audrey Munson, Charles Jewtraw, Jurandir de Freitas, Wolfgang Koeppen, Bernard Edwards, and Robert Nisbet.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Vagn Holmboe ranks 466 out of 1,032. Before him are Peter Georg Bang (1797), Ole Ritter (1941), Charles Winckler (1867), Ernst Schultz (1879), Albert Küchler (1803), and Joachim Ernest, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön (1595). After him are Ellen Osiier (1890), Christian Poulsen (1980), Ole Ernst (1940), Thomas Madsen-Mygdal (1876), Flemming Povlsen (1966), and Nils Asther (1897).

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Among COMPOSERS In Denmark

Among composers born in Denmark, Vagn Holmboe ranks 8. Before him are Niels Gade (1817), Hans Christian Lumbye (1810), Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann (1805), Rued Langgaard (1893), Per Nørgård (1932), and Emil Hartmann (1836). After him are Peter Arnold Heise (1830), Jesper Kyd (1972), Hans Abrahamsen (1952), Poul Ruders (1949), and Frederik Magle (1977).

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