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George Alexander Macfarren

1813 - 1887

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Sir George Alexander Macfarren (2 March 1813 – 31 October 1887) was an English composer and musicologist. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. George Alexander Macfarren is the 1,253rd most popular composer (up from 1,353rd in 2019), the 4,343rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 5,113th in 2019) and the 70th most popular British Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, George Alexander Macfarren ranks 1,253 out of 1,451. Before him are Leigh Harline, Sergei Slonimsky, Xian Xinghai, Mark Snow, Masaaki Suzuki, and Antón García Abril. After him are Frigyes Hidas, Franghiz Ali-Zadeh, Virgil Thomson, Alberto Nepomuceno, Rachel Portman, and Kōsaku Yamada.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1813, George Alexander Macfarren ranks 73. Before him are Gaëtan de Rochebouët, Félix María Zuloaga, Errico Petrella, Stephen Mallory, Gennady Nevelskoy, and Narciso Campero. After him are Timofey Granovsky, Karl Friedrich August Rammelsberg, John Cassin, George Peter Alexander Healy, Isaac Pitman, and Radhanath Sikdar. Among people deceased in 1887, George Alexander Macfarren ranks 56. Before him are August Spies, E. Marlitt, Fran Levstik, Peder Balke, José Rufino Echenique, and Dorothea Dix. After him are Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, Semyon Nadson, Alfred Domett, Balfour Stewart, Albert Parsons, and Elihu B. Washburne.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, George Alexander Macfarren ranks 4,344 out of 8,785. Before him are William Powell Frith (1819), Youth (1960), Virginia McKenna (1931), Ron Geesin (1943), Brendan Perry (1959), and Mary Everest Boole (1832). After him are Alan Napier (1903), M. R. James (1862), Howard Donald (1968), Steve McClaren (1961), Eric Stewart (1945), and Andy Bell (1964).

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Among COMPOSERS In United Kingdom

Among composers born in United Kingdom, George Alexander Macfarren ranks 70. Before him are Thomas Linley the younger (1756), Adolph Deutsch (1897), Craig Armstrong (1959), Granville Bantock (1868), Thomas Campion (1567), and Ivor Novello (1893). After him are Rachel Portman (1960), Gerald Finzi (1901), Peter Warlock (1894), Maurice Greene (1696), Nicholas Hooper (1952), and Thomas Tomkins (1572).

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