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Erwin Schulhoff

1894 - 1942

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Erwin Schulhoff (Czech: Ervín Šulhov; 8 June 1894 – 18 August 1942) was an Austro-Czech composer and pianist. He was one of the figures in the generation of European musicians whose successful careers were prematurely terminated by the rise of the Nazi regime in Germany and whose works have been rarely noted or performed. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Erwin Schulhoff is the 533rd most popular composer (down from 497th in 2019), the 248th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 231st in 2019) and the 23rd most popular Czech Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Erwin Schulhoff ranks 533 out of 1,451. Before him are Orlando Gibbons, David Rose, Frederick Delius, Pancho Vladigerov, Remo Giazotto, and Franz Xaver Richter. After him are Terry Riley, Albert Ketèlbey, Michael Kamen, Vasily Kalinnikov, Gara Garayev, and Henri Duparc.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Erwin Schulhoff ranks 78. Before him are Albert Leo Schlageter, José Carlos Mariátegui, Trygve Gulbranssen, Mei Lanfang, T. V. Soong, and E. E. Cummings. After him are Gerhard Schmidhuber, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Paul Lukas, Józef Beck, Meher Baba, and Tivadar Soros. Among people deceased in 1942, Erwin Schulhoff ranks 77. Before him are John Barrymore, Georg Alexander Pick, Wilbur Scoville, Karel Doorman, Miguel Hernández, and Harro Schulze-Boysen. After him are Leonid Kulik, Julio González, Henk Sneevliet, Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Alexander Belyaev, and Georges Politzer.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Erwin Schulhoff ranks 248 out of 1,200. Before him are Zdeněk Zeman (1947), Bretislav II (1100), Jan Stráský (1940), Silvia Saint (1976), Vladimír Menšík (1929), and Franz Xaver Richter (1709). After him are Alois Lexa von Aehrenthal (1854), Petr Ginz (1928), Johannes Widmann (1460), Vilém Mathesius (1882), Antonín Mrkos (1918), and Soběslav I, Duke of Bohemia (1075).

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Among COMPOSERS In Czechia

Among composers born in Czechia, Erwin Schulhoff ranks 23. Before him are Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760), Ignaz Moscheles (1794), Zdeněk Fibich (1850), Leopold Koželuch (1747), Vítězslav Novák (1870), and Franz Xaver Richter (1709). After him are Karel Svoboda (1938), Florian Leopold Gassmann (1729), Pavel Haas (1899), Alois Hába (1893), František Brixi (1732), and Oskar Nedbal (1874).

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