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Paul Abraham

1892 - 1960

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Paul Abraham (Hungarian: Ábrahám Pál; 2 November 1892 – 6 May 1960) was a Jewish-Hungarian composer of operettas, who scored major successes in the German-speaking world. His specialty – and own innovation – was the insertion of jazz interludes into operettas. Abraham was born in Apatin, Austria-Hungary (today Serbia), and studied at the Royal National Hungarian Academy of Music in Budapest from 1910 to 1916. He studied cello with Adolf Schiffer and composition with Viktor Herzfeld. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Abraham is the 412th most popular composer (down from 320th in 2019), the 87th most popular biography from Serbia (down from 76th in 2019) and the most popular Serbian Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Paul Abraham ranks 412 out of 1,451. Before him are Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Gaspar Sanz, Adriano Banchieri, and Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov. After him are Nicolaus Bruhns, Alexander Arutiunian, Maurice Duruflé, Ignaz Moscheles, Boris Lyatoshinsky, and Georges Delerue.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Paul Abraham ranks 78. Before him are Alfonsina Storni, Marcel Dassault, Günther Blumentritt, César Vallejo, Andrés Nin Pérez, and J. B. S. Haldane. After him are S. R. Ranganathan, Josyf Slipyj, Stanisław Sosabowski, Walther Nehring, Thomas Mitchell, and Arnold Hauser. Among people deceased in 1960, Paul Abraham ranks 51. Before him are Mack Sennett, Jacques Becker, Archduchess Elisabeth Amalie of Austria, Norodom Suramarit, Hashim al-Atassi, and Carl Keenan Seyfert. After him are Aly Khan, Vicki Baum, Jussi Björling, Yan Xishan, Eddie Cochran, and Maurice de Broglie.

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In Serbia

Among people born in Serbia, Paul Abraham ranks 87 out of 661. Before him are Gojko Mitić (1940), Petar Stambolić (1912), Živojin Mišić (1855), Radivoj Korać (1938), Dragiša Cvetković (1893), and Stefan Branković (1417). After him are Ivo Pogorelić (1958), Miloš Milutinović (1933), Šaban Šaulić (1951), Željko Obradović (1960), Nadežda Petrović (1873), and Rajko Mitić (1922).

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Among COMPOSERS In Serbia

Among composers born in Serbia, Paul Abraham ranks 1. After him are Stevan Mokranjac (1856), Stevan Hristić (1885), Sanja Ilić (1951), and Isidora Žebeljan (1967).

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