COMPOSER

Victor Herbert

1859 - 1924

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Victor August Herbert (February 1, 1859 – May 26, 1924) was an American composer, cellist and conductor of English and Irish ancestry and German training. Although Herbert enjoyed important careers as a cello soloist and conductor, he is best known for composing many successful operettas that premiered on Broadway from the 1890s to World War I. He was also prominent among the Tin Pan Alley composers and was later a founder of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Victor Herbert has received more than 380,685 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Victor Herbert is the 1,272nd most popular composer (down from 1,200th in 2019), the 261st most popular biography from Ireland (down from 243rd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Irish Composer.

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  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.67

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.41

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Victor Herbert ranks 1,272 out of 1,451. Before him are John Ireland, Fartein Valen, Thomas Weelkes, Paul Le Flem, Paul Williams, and Lukas Foss. After him are Geirr Tveitt, Yasuharu Takanashi, Toshio Hosokawa, Lepo Sumera, Boris Tishchenko, and Federico Chueca.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1859, Victor Herbert ranks 127. Before him are Vincenzo Cerulli, Carrie Chapman Catt, Anatole Le Braz, Alfredo Baquerizo, Theobald Smith, and Cass Gilbert. After him are Jón Magnússon, Sigurd Ibsen, José Sánchez-Guerra y Martínez, Juan Antonio Escurra, Vjenceslav Novak, and Christopher Hornsrud. Among people deceased in 1924, Victor Herbert ranks 120. Before him are Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, Josefine Swoboda, William Hemsley, Wollert Konow, Sándor Bródy, and Lloyd Hildebrand. After him are Maurice Prendergast, Georg Selenius, Corrado Segre, Rafael López Gutiérrez, Isabella Stewart Gardner, and Henry Cabot Lodge.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Victor Herbert ranks 261 out of 549. Before him are Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough (1779), John Joly (1857), Eoin O'Duffy (1890), William McGonagall (1825), Derek Daly (1953), and Liam Brady (1956). After him are Michael Scott (1959), Paddy Moloney (1938), Eoin Colfer (1965), Jack Lynch (1917), Matt McGrath (1875), and Robert O'Hara Burke (1821).

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Among COMPOSERS In Ireland

Among composers born in Ireland, Victor Herbert ranks 5. Before him are John Field (1782), Charles Villiers Stanford (1852), Turlough O'Carolan (1670), and Michael William Balfe (1808). After him are Michael McGlynn (1964).

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