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Engelbert Humperdinck
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Engelbert Humperdinck was a male composer, teacher, and musicologist who lived from 1854 to 1921. His professional fields included music composition, opera, and librettist work. He is associated with German and international nationalities and wrote in German.
His notable works include *Hänsel und Gretel*, *Figli di re*, and *Instrumentationslehre*. Open Library records indicate he authored 45 works, while Crossref lists five. He has been referenced by 370 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 28 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, VIAF, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1854
- Died
- 1921
- Works
- 45
Top works
- Figli di re
- Humperdinck, Hänsel und Gretel
- Hanzel ṿe-Graiṭel--Engelberṭ Humperdinḳ
- Hänsel und Gretel
- Instrumentationslehre
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1936-05-02
Discography
- Release Me1967
- The Last Waltz1967
- A Man Without Love1968
- Engelbert1969
- Engelbert Humperdinck1969
- We Made It Happen1970
- Another Time, Another Place1971
- Sweetheart1971
- In Time1972
- King of Hearts1973
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 668,087
- Total plays
- 7,830,503
Tags
There are multiple artists with this name: 1. Arnold George Dorsey, MBE (born 2 May 1936), known professionally as Engelbert Humperdinck, is a British pop singer. He has been described by AllMusic as a prominent performer of middle-of-the-road ballads and achieved international prominence in 1967 with his recording of "Release Me". Humperdinck began his career in the late 1950s under the name "Gerry Dorsey", but achieved commercial success after 1965 when he partnered with manager Gordon Mills
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
· 2024 · cited 4,521x
- Global burden of 288 causes of death and life expectancy decomposition in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
· 2024 · cited 2,553x
- Global mortality associated with 33 bacterial pathogens in 2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2022 · cited 1,946x
- Differential Games in Economics and Management Science
· 2000 · cited 971x
- Global age-sex-specific mortality, life expectancy, and population estimates in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1950–2021, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic: a comprehensive demographic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
· 2024 · cited 912x
via Crossref · CC0
Authority record · VIAF
- Lifespan
- 1854–1921
- Nationality
- DE, DEU, XX
- Role / Field
- Komponist, Composers, Teacher, Musicologos, Libretistas, Composition music
- Language
- ger, deu
- Gender
- Male
Recorded by 39 libraries
via VIAF · OCLC
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Engelbert
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of birth
- Siegburg
- Place of death
- Neustrelitz
- Occupation
- music critic
- Educated at
- Gymnasium Theodorianum
- Employer
- Hoch Conservatory
- Languages spoken
- German
- Award
- Mendelssohn Award
- Academic degree
- honorary doctorate
- Field of work
- composer
- Genre
- opera
- Instrument
- piano
- Image
- Engelbert humperdinck 1854.jpg
Show 14 more facts
- student
- Siegfried Wagner
- Commons category
- Engelbert Humperdinck (composer)
- date of birth
- 1854-09-01
- date of death
- 1921-09-01
- Commons gallery
- Engelbert Humperdinck
- name in native language
- Engelbert Humperdinck
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- manner of death
- natural causes
- place of burial
- Südwestkirchhof Stahnsdorf
- different from
- Engelbert Humperdinck
- P8168
- Saint-Julien AOC
- P12749
- Yuan Mei
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Humperdinck, c. 1910
Engelbert Humperdinck ( German: [ˈɛŋl̩bɛʁt ˈhʊmpɐdɪŋk]; 1 September 1854 – 27 September 1921) was a German composer. He is known widely for his opera Hansel and Gretel (1893).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Engelbert Humperdinck” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.