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Wolfgang Sawallisch

1923 - 2013

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Wolfgang Sawallisch (26 August 1923 – 22 February 2013) was a German conductor and pianist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wolfgang Sawallisch has received more than 121,787 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Wolfgang Sawallisch is the 404th most popular musician (up from 406th in 2019), the 1,884th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,843rd in 2019) and the 20th most popular German Musician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 120k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.10

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Wolfgang Sawallisch ranks 404 out of 3,175. Before him are Ben Webster, Dennis Wilson, Glenn Frey, Ray Conniff, Albert King, and Joan Manuel Serrat. After him are Jan Kubelík, Donovan, Joe Perry, Johnny Winter, Bulbul, and Alan Walker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Wolfgang Sawallisch ranks 101. Before him are Sergey Akhromeyev, Ernst Nolte, Yves Bonnefoy, Dexter Gordon, Lloyd Shapley, and Albert King. After him are Belisario Betancur, Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, Yuriko, Princess Mikasa, Cheikh Anta Diop, Philly Joe Jones, and Irvin Kershner. Among people deceased in 2013, Wolfgang Sawallisch ranks 100. Before him are Eleanor Parker, Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse, Nguyễn Khánh, Otfried Preußler, Glafcos Clerides, and Richard Ramirez. After him are Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau, Ray Harryhausen, Taihō Kōki, Frederik Pohl, Deanna Durbin, and Tuncel Kurtiz.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wolfgang Sawallisch ranks 1,884 out of 7,253. Before him are Hans-Gert Pöttering (1945), Theodore of Corsica (1694), Peter Henlein (1479), Johann Gottfried Schadow (1764), Monika Ertl (1937), and Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1861). After him are Otto Braun (1900), Ludwig Fischer (1905), Franz Danzi (1763), Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel (1797), Paul Frederick, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1800), and Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein (1751).

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Among MUSICIANS In Germany

Among musicians born in Germany, Wolfgang Sawallisch ranks 20. Before him are Richard Z. Kruspe (1967), Paul Landers (1964), Florian Schneider (1947), Wilhelm Backhaus (1884), Christian Lorenz (1966), and Michael Schenker (1955). After him are Christoph Schneider (1966), Kai Hansen (1963), Ralf Hütter (1946), Matthias Jabs (1955), Anne-Sophie Mutter (1963), and Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach (1715).

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