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Wilhelm Peterson-Berger

1867 - 1942

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Olof Wilhelm Peterson-Berger ( 27 February 1867 — 3 December 1942) was a Swedish composer and music critic. As a composer, his main musical influences were Grieg, August Söderman and Wagner as well as Swedish folk idiom. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Wilhelm Peterson-Berger is the 818th most popular composer (up from 890th in 2019), the 461st most popular biography from Sweden (up from 481st in 2019) and the 7th most popular Swedish Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Wilhelm Peterson-Berger ranks 818 out of 1,451. Before him are Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, York Bowen, Johann Krieger, Nobuo Uematsu, Francesco Feo, and Guy Ropartz. After him are Carl Millöcker, Julius Röntgen, Wim Mertens, Henri-Montan Berton, Ciprian Porumbescu, and Giovanni Artusi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1867, Wilhelm Peterson-Berger ranks 91. Before him are Hjalmar Johansen, Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein, Alexander Vasiliev, Hanns Hörbiger, Aleksandar Malinov, and Charles Dillon Perrine. After him are Giuseppe Morello, Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Léon Daudet, Yevgeny Miller, Ivan Grohar, and John Rogan. Among people deceased in 1942, Wilhelm Peterson-Berger ranks 118. Before him are Heinrich Vogeler, Demetrios Petrokokkinos, Olga Benário Prestes, Aurel Stodola, Guglielmo Ferrero, and Jacques-Émile Blanche. After him are Joseph Schmidt, Ants Piip, Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, Alexey Troitsky, Francis Younghusband, and Léon Daudet.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Wilhelm Peterson-Berger ranks 461 out of 1,879. Before him are Marika Green (1943), Pehr Kalm (1716), Carl Axel Magnus Lindman (1856), Victoria Silvstedt (1974), Bengt Gustavsson (1928), and Johan Andreas Murray (1740). After him are Robert Themptander (1844), August Nilsson (1872), Augustin Ehrensvärd (1710), Victoria Benedictsson (1850), Margot Wallström (1954), and Knut Kroon (1906).

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Among COMPOSERS In Sweden

Among composers born in Sweden, Wilhelm Peterson-Berger ranks 7. Before him are Dieterich Buxtehude (1637), Hugo Alfvén (1872), Princess Cecilia of Sweden (1807), Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871), Johan Helmich Roman (1694), and Kurt Atterberg (1887). After him are Allan Pettersson (1911), Lars-Erik Larsson (1908), Einar Englund (1916), Ture Rangström (1884), Ludvig Norman (1831), and Eddie Meduza (1948).

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