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Josef Hofmann

1876 - 1957

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Josef Casimir Hofmann (originally Józef Kazimierz Hofmann; January 20, 1876 – February 16, 1957) was a Polish-American pianist, composer, music teacher, and inventor. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Josef Hofmann is the 498th most popular musician (down from 437th in 2019), the 426th most popular biography from Poland (down from 421st in 2019) and the 11th most popular Polish Musician.

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Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Josef Hofmann ranks 498 out of 3,175Before him are Ray Conniff, Armin van Buuren, Michel Polnareff, Joey DeMaio, Sonny Boy Williamson I, and Greg Lake. After him are Dave Hill, Don Henley, Annie Fischer, Wojciech Żywny, Eugene Ormandy, and Matt Cameron.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Josef Hofmann ranks 75Before him are Senjūrō Hayashi, Eugène-Henri Gravelotte, Elmer Drew Merrill, Viktor Kaplan, Julio González, and Roman Malinovsky. After him are William Ernest, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Franz Schlegelberger, Henri Winkelman, Friedrich Traun, Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, and Ivane Javakhishvili. Among people deceased in 1957, Josef Hofmann ranks 81Before him are Josef Lada, Shūmei Ōkawa, Álvaro Gestido, Rudolf Schmidt, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Pedro Infante. After him are Washington Luís, Zhou Xuan, Rezső Kasztner, Paul Walden, Carlos Castillo Armas, and Elizabeth Hesselblad.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Josef Hofmann ranks 426 out of 1,694Before him are Friedrich Ernst Dorn (1848), Johann Adam Hiller (1728), Jan Jesenius (1566), Zbigniew Religa (1938), Daniel Chodowiecki (1726), and Hans Bellmer (1902). After him are Sendivogius (1566), Janusz Korwin-Mikke (1942), Hermann von Eichhorn (1848), Karl Gützlaff (1803), Hugo Haase (1863), and Eleonore Reuss of Köstritz (1860).

Among MUSICIANS In Poland

Among musicians born in Poland, Josef Hofmann ranks 11Before him are Henryk Szeryng (1918), Artur Schnabel (1882), Krystian Zimerman (1956), Carl Tausig (1841), Theodor Leschetizky (1830), and Julie Guicciardi (1782). After him are Christoph Eschenbach (1940), Bronisław Huberman (1882), Xaver Scharwenka (1850), Julian Fontana (1810), Mordechai Gebirtig (1877), and Johann Gottfried Piefke (1815).