COMPOSER

Veljo Tormis

1930 - 2017

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Veljo Tormis (7 August 1930 – 21 January 2017) was an Estonian composer, regarded as one of the great contemporary choral composers and one of the most important composers of the 20th century in Estonia. Internationally, his fame arises chiefly from his extensive body of choral music, which exceeds 500 individual choral songs, most of it a cappella. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Veljo Tormis has received more than 98,667 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Veljo Tormis is the 585th most popular composer (up from 699th in 2019), the 45th most popular biography from Estonia (up from 55th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Estonian Composer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 99k

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  • 55.54

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.94

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Veljo Tormis ranks 585 out of 1,451. Before him are Tielman Susato, Albert Ketèlbey, Jean-Joseph de Mondonville, Pasquale Anfossi, Paul Lincke, and Hermann Scherchen. After him are Malcolm Arnold, Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, Johann Ludwig Krebs, Leo Brouwer, Johann David Heinichen, and Leopold Koželuch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Veljo Tormis ranks 162. Before him are Giuliano Montaldo, Jo Bonnier, Sergiu Nicolaescu, Carolyn Jones, Claude Bolling, and Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada. After him are Bo Widerberg, Chus Lampreave, Nguyễn Ngọc Loan, Dani Karavan, Václav Vorlíček, and Todor Veselinović. Among people deceased in 2017, Veljo Tormis ranks 139. Before him are Bayezid Osman, Anne Golon, Robert Miles, John Hillerman, Daliah Lavi, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky. After him are Charles Robert Jenkins, Stephen Paddock, Baldwin Lonsdale, Jean d'Ormesson, Aleksey Batalov, and Todor Veselinović.

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In Estonia

Among people born in Estonia, Veljo Tormis ranks 45 out of 351. Before him are Leonid Kulik (1883), Andrus Ansip (1956), Otto Wilhelm von Struve (1819), Vaino Väljas (1931), Ilon Wikland (1930), and Johann Voldemar Jannsen (1819). After him are Hermann von Keyserling (1880), Johannes Vares (1890), Charles Philip, Duke of Södermanland (1601), Jaan Kaplinski (1941), Marie Under (1883), and Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven (1914).

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Among COMPOSERS In Estonia

Among composers born in Estonia, Veljo Tormis ranks 3. Before him are Arvo Pärt (1935), and Evald Aav (1900). After him are Eduard Tubin (1905), Heino Eller (1887), Käbi Laretei (1922), Juhan Aavik (1884), Alexei Lvov (1798), Artur Kapp (1878), Rudolf Tobias (1873), Ester Mägi (1922), and Knudåge Riisager (1897).

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