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Rudolf Friml

1879 - 1972

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Charles Rudolf Friml (December 7, 1879 – November 12, 1972) was a Czech-born composer of operettas, musicals, songs and piano pieces, as well as a pianist. After musical training and a brief performing career in his native Prague, Friml moved to the United States, where he became a composer. His best-known works are Rose-Marie and The Vagabond King, each of which enjoyed success on Broadway and in London and were adapted for film. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rudolf Friml is the 1,125th most popular composer (down from 1,101st in 2019), the 576th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 567th in 2019) and the 55th most popular Czech Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Rudolf Friml ranks 1,125 out of 1,451. Before him are Marcello Abbado, Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson, Ture Rangström, Adolf Bernhard Marx, Francesco Antonio Vallotti, and Siegmund von Hausegger. After him are Avet Terterian, W. C. Handy, Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, Brian Ferneyhough, Otto Jahn, and Oskar Sala.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Rudolf Friml ranks 179. Before him are Cyril Scott, Will Rogers, Adolf Lindfors, Martin Mutschmann, Émile Nelligan, and Agnes Miegel. After him are Henri Tauzin, Mazo de la Roche, Volodymyr Ivanovych Barvinok, Jean Gilbert, Aimée Antoinette Camus, and Ethel Thomson Larcombe. Among people deceased in 1972, Rudolf Friml ranks 173. Before him are Cecil Day-Lewis, Erwin Stresemann, Antal Szabó, Bernabé Ferreyra, John Hutchinson, and Vera Karalli. After him are Vera Inber, Walter Lang, Prithviraj Kapoor, Theodor Blank, Isak Abrahamsen, and Saul Alinsky.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Rudolf Friml ranks 576 out of 1,200. Before him are Ernst Streeruwitz (1874), Jan Blahoslav (1523), Milan Dvořák (1934), Karel Teige (1900), Adolf Lang (1848), and František Šafránek (1931). After him are Josephine Kablick (1787), Vladimír Holan (1905), Petr Kellner (1964), Walter Schleger (1929), Arnold Pick (1851), and Václav Mašek (1941).

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Among COMPOSERS In Czechia

Among composers born in Czechia, Rudolf Friml ranks 55. Before him are Ralph Benatzky (1884), Johann Joseph Abert (1832), Andreas Hammerschmidt (1611), Christoph Demantius (1567), Petr Eben (1929), and František Škroup (1801). After him are Wenzel Müller (1767), August Wilhelm Ambros (1816), Walter Susskind (1913), Vladimír Franz (1959), and Karel Husa (1921).

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