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Paul Bekker

1882 - 1937

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Max Paul Eugen Bekker (11 September 1882 – 7 March 1937) was a German music critic and author. Described as having "brilliant style and […] extensive theoretical and practical knowledge," Bekker was chief music critic for both the Frankfurter Zeitung (1911–1923), and later the New Yorker Staats-Zeitung (1934–1937). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Bekker is the 4,543rd most popular writer (down from 4,404th in 2019), the 4,443rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,276th in 2019) and the 271st most popular German Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Paul Bekker ranks 4,543 out of 7,302Before him are Bolesław Leśmian, R. K. Narayan, Vera Panova, Runer Jonsson, Ameen Rihani, and Robert Edmond Grant. After him are Teffi, Firaq Gorakhpuri, Francis de Miomandre, Jane Bowles, Ernst Stadler, and Jacques Roumain.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Paul Bekker ranks 202Before him are Walter Braunfels, Maurice Peeters, Leonard Meredith, Frederick Moloney, Willem Elsschot, and Géza Kiss. After him are Alfred Keller, Purushottam Das Tandon, Elin Wägner, Giovanni Amendola, Percy Grainger, and George Bancroft. Among people deceased in 1937, Paul Bekker ranks 138Before him are Walter Burley Griffin, Wilhelm Weinberg, Anastasios Metaxas, Clarence Clark, Juan Campisteguy, and Bolesław Leśmian. After him are Prosper Poullet, Mykola Kulish, Mykola Zerov, Grafton Elliot Smith, Magnús Guðmundsson, and Felix Graf von Bothmer.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Paul Bekker ranks 4,446 out of 7,253Before him are Jupp Kapellmann (1949), Walther Reinhardt (1872), Hermann Gunkel (1862), Theodore Levitt (1925), Hermann Wilker (1874), and Dieter Burdenski (1950). After him are Paul von Hintze (1864), Walter Bruch (1908), Marita Lange (1943), Eduard von Martens (1831), Klaus Groth (1819), and Bernd Stange (1948).

Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Paul Bekker ranks 271Before him are Konrad von Würzburg (1225), Kito Lorenc (1938), Christian Gotthilf Salzmann (1744), Ludwig Bechstein (1801), Uwe Timm (1940), and Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg (1750). After him are Klaus Groth (1819), Tankred Dorst (1925), Louise Otto-Peters (1819), Bruno Frank (1887), Hedwig Courths-Mahler (1867), and Mira Lobe (1913).