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Petr Eben

1929 - 2007

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Petr Eben (22 January 1929 – 24 October 2007) was a Czech composer of modern and contemporary classical music, and an organist and choirmaster. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Petr Eben is the 1,079th most popular composer (down from 1,053rd in 2019), the 560th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 527th in 2019) and the 53rd most popular Czech Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Petr Eben ranks 1,079 out of 1,451. Before him are Franco Faccio, Semen Hulak-Artemovsky, Yuri Shaporin, Hans Huber, Ferde Grofé, and Annibale Padovano. After him are František Škroup, Arturo Márquez, Walter Piston, John Ottman, Hugo Distler, and Tristan Murail.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Petr Eben ranks 318. Before him are André Darrigade, Jacques Plante, Walter Berry, Mikhail Simonov, Costa Pereira, and Sunil Dutt. After him are Eugène Parlier, Richard Lewontin, Henri Pousseur, Otar Patsatsia, Anatoly Kuznetsov, and Alfred Teinitzer. Among people deceased in 2007, Petr Eben ranks 239. Before him are Isidore Isou, Roger Beaufrand, Henry L. Giclas, Kenji Miyamoto, Qurratulain Hyder, and Iccho Itoh. After him are Art Buchwald, Antonio Puerta, Rosalio José Castillo Lara, Francisco Umbral, Princess Marie Adelaide of Luxembourg, and Miyoshi Umeki.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Petr Eben ranks 560 out of 1,200. Before him are Ferdinand Brokoff (1688), Karel Sabina (1813), Vladimir Kulich (1956), Christoph Demantius (1567), Géza Fejérváry (1833), and Julius Zeyer (1841). After him are František Škroup (1801), Jan Šrámek (1870), Friedrich Reinitzer (1857), Karel Škréta (1610), Jiří Čadek (1935), and Max Švabinský (1873).

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Among COMPOSERS In Czechia

Among composers born in Czechia, Petr Eben ranks 53. Before him are Jan Kalivoda (1801), Vilém Blodek (1834), Ralph Benatzky (1884), Johann Joseph Abert (1832), Andreas Hammerschmidt (1611), and Christoph Demantius (1567). After him are František Škroup (1801), Rudolf Friml (1879), Wenzel Müller (1767), August Wilhelm Ambros (1816), Walter Susskind (1913), and Vladimír Franz (1959).

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