COMPOSER

Hugo Distler

1908 - 1942

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August Hugo Distler (24 June 1908 – 1 November 1942) was a German organist, choral conductor, teacher and composer. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hugo Distler is the 1,084th most popular composer (down from 1,057th in 2019), the 4,282nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,199th in 2019) and the 156th most popular German Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Hugo Distler ranks 1,084 out of 1,451. Before him are Annibale Padovano, Petr Eben, František Škroup, Arturo Márquez, Walter Piston, and John Ottman. After him are Tristan Murail, Paul Taffanel, Philippe Verdelot, Henri Pousseur, Valeri Brainin, and Simeon ten Holt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Hugo Distler ranks 244. Before him are Francesco Camusso, Roger Beaufrand, Vaikom Muhammad Basheer, Louis Hostin, George Pal, and Kenji Miyamoto. After him are Percy Faith, Aleksander Ford, Gotthard Handrick, Louis Jordan, George Simpson, and Renzo Rossellini. Among people deceased in 1942, Hugo Distler ranks 183. Before him are Mohammad Ali Foroughi, John Mulcahy, Jerzy Różycki, James Juvenal, Oleg Losev, and Ivan Horbachevsky. After him are Roberto María Ortiz, Ludwig Aschoff, Refik Saydam, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Racho Petrov, and Yevgeny Petrov.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hugo Distler ranks 4,284 out of 7,253. Before him are Augustus Louis, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen (1697), Friederike Charlotte of Hesse-Darmstadt (1698), Gerhard Rohlfs (1892), Curt Bois (1901), Erich Rademacher (1901), and Albert Betz (1885). After him are Princess Pauline of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1852), Martin Hoffmann (1955), Adolf Merckle (1934), Edgar Basel (1930), August Wilhelm Iffland (1759), and Loki Schmidt (1919).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Hugo Distler ranks 156. Before him are Gustav Lange (1830), Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse (1774), Johann Adolf Scheibe (1708), Johann Theile (1646), Frederick Loewe (1901), and Eduard Künneke (1885). After him are Johann Nicolaus Bach (1669), Karl Klindworth (1830), Walter Braunfels (1882), Boris Papandopulo (1906), Gottfried August Homilius (1714), and Johanna Kinkel (1810).

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