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Werner Egk

1901 - 1983

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Werner Egk (German pronunciation: [ˈɛk], 17 May 1901 – 10 July 1983), born Werner Joseph Mayer, was a German composer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Werner Egk has received more than 63,665 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Werner Egk is the 766th most popular composer (down from 736th in 2019), the 2,901st most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,715th in 2019) and the 119th most popular German Composer.

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  • 64k

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  • 52.17

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Werner Egk ranks 766 out of 1,216. Before him are Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, Péter Eötvös, Luigi Denza, Hans von Koessler, Harold Arlen, and Johann Rosenmüller. After him are Michel Blavet, Johan Helmich Roman, John Bull, Déodat de Séverac, Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger, and Alexander Alyabyev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Werner Egk ranks 135. Before him are Salchak Toka, Stanisław Mikołajczyk, George Raft, Lanza del Vasto, Mikhail Romm, and August Schmidhuber. After him are Ebbe Schwartz, Maurice Evans, György Orth, Frank Zamboni, Spyridon Marinatos, and Antal Szerb. Among people deceased in 1983, Werner Egk ranks 104. Before him are Necip Fazıl Kısakürek, Jerzy Andrzejewski, Paul de Man, Ángel Labruna, Vladimir Bakarić, and Lina Radke. After him are Zhang Daqian, Yuri Levitan, Maurice Bishop, Johan Grøttumsbråten, Fritz Machlup, and Earl Hines.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Werner Egk ranks 2,901 out of 6,142. Before him are Wilhelm Roux (1850), Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel (1766), Johann Rosenmüller (1619), Lina Radke (1903), Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser (1540), and Frederick William, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt (1700). After him are Sonja Ziemann (1926), Wilhelm von Biela (1782), Johann Ernst Glück (1652), Anne Buydens (1919), Werner March (1894), and Ernst May (1886).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Werner Egk ranks 119. Before him are Conradin Kreutzer (1780), Johann Krieger (1651), Anton Walter (1752), Johann Friedrich Agricola (1720), Hans von Koessler (1853), and Johann Rosenmüller (1619). After him are Paul Ben-Haim (1897), Johann Andreas Stein (1728), Johann Walter (1496), Julius Röntgen (1855), Johann Jacob Bach (1682), and Udo Zimmermann (1943).

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