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Zbigniew Preisner

1955 - Today

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Zbigniew Preisner (Polish: [ˈzbiɡɲɛf ˈprajsnɛr]; born 20 May 1955 as Zbigniew Antoni Kowalski) is a Polish film score composer, best known for his work with film director Krzysztof Kieślowski. He is the recipient of the Gold Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis as well as the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Zbigniew Preisner has received more than 363,738 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Zbigniew Preisner is the 593rd most popular composer (down from 529th in 2019), the 501st most popular biography from Poland (down from 415th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Polish Composer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 360k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.50

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.59

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Zbigniew Preisners by language

Over the past year Zbigniew Preisner has had the most page views in the with 41,742 views, followed by English (35,137), and French (5,967). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Catalan (104.33%), Esperanto (92.11%), and Vietnamese (83.23%)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Zbigniew Preisner ranks 593 out of 1,451. Before him are Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, Johann Ludwig Krebs, Leo Brouwer, Johann David Heinichen, Leopold Koželuch, and François Devienne. After him are Franz Xaver Richter, Basil Poledouris, Alexander Arutiunian, Reinhard Keiser, Luis de Milán, and Peter Sculthorpe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Zbigniew Preisner ranks 115. Before him are Simon Rattle, Vladimir Petrović, Eric Schmidt, Siri Hustvedt, Brigitte Lahaie, and Mariya Takeuchi. After him are Gloria Guida, Mulatu Teshome, John de Mol Jr., Andreas Gursky, Rolf Lassgård, and Mayumi Tanaka.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Zbigniew Preisner ranks 501 out of 1,694. Before him are Marek Grechuta (1945), Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger (1890), Zbigniew of Poland (1070), Vladimir Chelomey (1914), Piotr Skarga (1536), and Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (1812). After him are Maciej Stryjkowski (1547), Hellmuth Stieff (1901), Heinrich Wilhelm Dove (1803), Bogislaw X, Duke of Pomerania (1454), Georg von der Marwitz (1856), and Israel Joshua Singer (1893).

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Among COMPOSERS In Poland

Among composers born in Poland, Zbigniew Preisner ranks 17. Before him are Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska (1834), Maria Szymanowska (1789), Józef Elsner (1769), Moritz Moszkowski (1854), Johann Adam Hiller (1728), and Alexandre Tansman (1897). After him are Johann Gottlieb Goldberg (1727), Franz Waxman (1906), Johann Schobert (1720), Krzysztof Komeda (1931), Karol Lipiński (1790), and Wolfgang Schmieder (1901).

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