MUSICIAN

Wilhelm Backhaus

1884 - 1969

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Wilhelm Backhaus ('Bachaus' on some record labels) (26 March 1884 – 5 July 1969) was a German pianist and pedagogue. He was particularly well known for his interpretations of Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin and Brahms. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilhelm Backhaus has received more than 138,909 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Wilhelm Backhaus is the 379th most popular musician (down from 347th in 2019), the 1,790th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,594th in 2019) and the 17th most popular German Musician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 140k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.48

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.51

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.90

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Wilhelm Backhaus by language

Over the past year Wilhelm Backhaus has had the most page views in the with 11,674 views, followed by Japanese (10,508), and German (7,601). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Egyptian Arabic (124.00%), Catalan (88.16%), and Greek (44.99%)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Wilhelm Backhaus ranks 379 out of 3,175. Before him are Oliver Dragojević, Stig Anderson, Jermaine Jackson, Ornette Coleman, Alexander Siloti, and Rocco Granata. After him are Artur Schnabel, Nick Cave, Christian Lorenz, Ginger Baker, Michael Schenker, and Agustín Barrios.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Wilhelm Backhaus ranks 63. Before him are Georges Duhamel, Drastamat Kanayan, Prince Adalbert of Prussia, Gaston Aumoitte, Yasuji Okamura, and Alexander Belyaev. After him are Joseph Boxhall, Félix Gouin, Eugène Tisserant, Ivan Maisky, Georg Lindemann, and Antoine Pevsner. Among people deceased in 1969, Wilhelm Backhaus ranks 64. Before him are Jiří Trnka, Joseph Kosma, Ramón Grau, Lucien Bianchi, Leo McCarey, and Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg. After him are Frederic Bartlett, Kimon Georgiev, Prince Konrad of Bavaria, Mikio Naruse, Adolfo López Mateos, and Meher Baba.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Backhaus ranks 1,790 out of 7,253. Before him are Wilhelm Zaisser (1893), Theodor Lipps (1851), Wilhelm Marr (1819), Sebastian Vettel (1987), Christian I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg (1568), and Duchess Augusta of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1764). After him are Philipp Mainländer (1841), Horst Schumann (1906), Oskar Gröning (1921), Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1720), Frederick IV, Elector Palatine (1574), and Adolph Diesterweg (1790).

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Among MUSICIANS In Germany

Among musicians born in Germany, Wilhelm Backhaus ranks 17. Before him are André Previn (1929), Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller (1806), Friedrich Kalkbrenner (1784), Richard Z. Kruspe (1967), Paul Landers (1964), and Florian Schneider (1947). After him are Christian Lorenz (1966), Michael Schenker (1955), Wolfgang Sawallisch (1923), Christoph Schneider (1966), Kai Hansen (1963), and Ralf Hütter (1946).

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