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William Sterndale Bennett

1816 - 1875

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Sir William Sterndale Bennett (13 April 1816 – 1 February 1875) was an English composer, pianist, conductor and music educator. At the age of ten Bennett was admitted to the London Royal Academy of Music (RAM), where he remained for ten years. By the age of twenty, he had begun to make a reputation as a concert pianist, and his compositions received high praise. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Sterndale Bennett has received more than 257,531 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). William Sterndale Bennett is the 1,287th most popular composer (down from 1,137th in 2019), the 4,482nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,512th in 2019) and the 71st most popular British Composer.

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  • 45.13

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.28

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.34

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, William Sterndale Bennett ranks 1,287 out of 1,451. Before her are Morten Lauridsen, Necil Kazım Akses, Pascal Dusapin, Florence Price, Monty Norman, and Harald Kloser. After her are Rauf Hajiyev, John Kander, Näcip Cihanov, Walter Susskind, Vladimír Franz, and Georg Friedrich Haas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1816, William Sterndale Bennett ranks 55. Before her are Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers, Lajos Haynald, Morrison Waite, Filippo Parlatore, Priscilla Cooper Tyler, and Manuel Murillo Toro. After her are Johan Sverdrup, Elihu B. Washburne, Nathaniel P. Banks, George Henry Thomas, and Charlotte Cushman. Among people deceased in 1875, William Sterndale Bennett ranks 80. Before her are Henry Kellett, John Gardner Wilkinson, Karl Mauch, Julián Castro, Atis Kronvalds, and Ivan Kuratov. After her are Zsigmond Kemény, Juan Crisóstomo Torrico, Thomas Baines, Dragojla Jarnević, William Edmond Logan, and John B. Weller.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Sterndale Bennett ranks 4,482 out of 8,785. Before her are Paul Carrack (1951), Anne-Marie Duff (1970), John Aitken (1839), Augustus John (1878), Barnes Wallis (1887), and Richard Taylor (1962). After her are John Farnham (1949), Sam Tingle (1921), Jonathan Lynn (1943), Jimmy Stewart (1931), Alan Cottrell (1919), and Charles Henry Bartlett (1885).

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Among COMPOSERS In United Kingdom

Among composers born in United Kingdom, William Sterndale Bennett ranks 71. Before her are Maurice Greene (1696), Samuel Arnold (1740), John Ireland (1879), Thomas Weelkes (1576), Gavin Bryars (1943), and Monty Norman (1928). After her are Thomas Tomkins (1572), George Fenton (1950), David Arnold (1962), Jocelyn Pook (1960), Peter Warlock (1894), and John Wilbye (1574).

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