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Willi Apel

1893 - 1988

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Willi Apel (10 October 1893 – 14 March 1988) was a German-American musicologist and noted author of a number of books devoted to music. Among his most important publications are the 1944 edition of The Harvard Dictionary of Music and French Secular Music of the Late Fourteenth Century. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Willi Apel is the 5,374th most popular writer (up from 5,689th in 2019), the 1,084th most popular biography from Poland (up from 1,127th in 2019) and the 133rd most popular Polish Writer.

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Among writers, Willi Apel ranks 5,374 out of 7,302. Before him are Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint, Robin Morgan, Polydore Vergil, Jacob van Maerlant, Abdulla Shaig, and Sergey Gorodetsky. After him are Izzat Ghazzawi, Pat Barker, Vsevolod Vishnevsky, Fríða Á. Sigurðardóttir, Paddy Chayefsky, and Furqat.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Willi Apel ranks 232. Before him are Harry Ryan, Wallace Fard Muhammad, Ivor Novello, Platon Oyunsky, Robert Harron, and Sidney Franklin. After him are Muhammad Zafarullah Khan, Nurul Amin, Carlos Alberto Arroyo del Río, Luis Otero, Toti Dal Monte, and Perry McGillivray. Among people deceased in 1988, Willi Apel ranks 213. Before him are Henry Johansen, Pavel Kadochnikov, José María Peña, Roger Hargreaves, Lazarus Salii, and José Magriñá. After him are William McMahon, Alan Napier, Ray Barbuti, Toni Frissell, Thomas Cooray, and Colin Higgins.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Willi Apel ranks 1,084 out of 1,694. Before him are Jacob Bronowski (1908), Narcyza Żmichowska (1819), Curt Lowens (1925), Jadwiga Wajs (1912), Anna Grodzka (1954), and Beata Poźniak (1960). After him are Benjamin Mazar (1906), Nathan Jacobson (1910), Grzegorz Schetyna (1963), Klaus Töpfer (1938), Karl Wilhelm Ramler (1725), and Jean de Reszke (1850).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Willi Apel ranks 133. Before him are Anna Louisa Karsch (1722), Antoni Lange (1862), Anna Świrszczyńska (1909), Wacław Potocki (1621), Heinrich Laube (1806), and Narcyza Żmichowska (1819). After him are Karl Wilhelm Ramler (1725), Jan Twardowski (1915), Christoph Hein (1944), Władysław Broniewski (1897), Kazimierz Brodziński (1791), and Kazimierz Brandys (1916).

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