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Vilém Blodek

1834 - 1874

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Vilém Blodek, born Vilém František Plodek (October 3, 1834, Prague – May 1, 1874, Prague), was a Czech composer, flautist, and pianist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vilém Blodek has received more than 26,542 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Vilém Blodek is the 1,106th most popular composer (down from 1,039th in 2019), the 573rd most popular biography from Czechia (down from 488th in 2019) and the 56th most popular Czech Composer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 27k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.80

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.57

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.72

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Vilém Blodek ranks 1,106 out of 1,451. Before him are Zygmunt Noskowski, Rudolf Friml, Kārlis Baumanis, Harry Partch, Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, and Alexander Moyzes. After him are Johann Nepomuk David, Robert Franz, Luis de Pablo, Yevhen Stankovych, Shirō Sagisu, and Avet Terterian.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1834, Vilém Blodek ranks 73. Before him are Adrien René Franchet, Petter Adolf Karsten, Hermann Wilhelm Vogel, Edmond Laguerre, Felix Dahn, and Friedrich Tietjen. After him are George du Maurier, Aleksey Suvorin, Yuriy Fedkovych, Heinrich Caro, Louis Ruchonnet, and Jacob Volhard. Among people deceased in 1874, Vilém Blodek ranks 43. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont, Heinrich von Kittlitz, John Phillips, Fritz Reuter, Victor Baltard, and Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Joseph Bélanger. After him are Jean Cruveilhier, Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville, Charles-Mathias Simons, Sylvain Van de Weyer, Johan Wilhelm Zetterstedt, and Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Vilém Blodek ranks 573 out of 1,200. Before him are Rudolf Friml (1879), Eliška Krásnohorská (1847), Helena Suková (1965), Ernst Falkbeer (1819), Antonín Vodička (1907), and Adolf Šimperský (1909). After him are Jaroslav Bouček (1912), Bohuslav Balbín (1621), Vasyl Durdynets (1937), Ferdinand Brokoff (1688), Franziskus von Paula Graf von Schönborn (1844), and Ernestine Schumann-Heink (1861).

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Among COMPOSERS In Czechia

Among composers born in Czechia, Vilém Blodek ranks 56. Before him are August Wilhelm Ambros (1816), Andreas Hammerschmidt (1611), Petr Eben (1929), Jaromír Weinberger (1896), František Škroup (1801), and Rudolf Friml (1879). After him are Wenzel Müller (1767), Karel Husa (1921), Walter Susskind (1913), and Vladimír Franz (1959).

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