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Oliver Knussen

British composer and conductor

1952 - 2018

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His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Oliver Knussen is the 1,393rd most popular composer (up from 1,394th in 2024), the 5,899th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,870th in 2019) and the 95th most popular British Composer.

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Oliver Knussen shares a June 12 birthday with Anne Frank, George H. W. Bush, and Egon Schiele.

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Among Composers

Among composers, Oliver Knussen ranks 1,393 out of 1,451. Before him are Lennox Berkeley, Thomas Adès, Raymond Scott, Lyudmila Lyadova, Alexander Goehr, and Christopher Chaplin. After him are Olga Neuwirth, Arne Nordheim, George Whitefield Chadwick, David Newman, Alan Bush, and Peter Sculthorpe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Oliver Knussen ranks 686. Before him are Ted Tally, Denís Milar, Sharda Sinha, Runa Laila, Vlado Taneski, and Robert Zubrin. After him are James Fleet, Billy Powell, Ellen McLain, Maria Damanaki, Tamás Faragó, and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. Among people deceased in 2018, Oliver Knussen ranks 545. Before him are Ken Berry, Frank Andersson, Emma Chambers, Aldo Tarlao, Roy Clark, and Frank Ramsey. After him are Ken Flach, Olivia Cole, Fazlullah, Yves Afonso, Sigi Schmid, and Walter Bahr.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Oliver Knussen ranks 5,899 out of 8,785. Before him are Reg Presley (1941), Julian Lloyd Webber (1951), W. H. R. Rivers (1864), Stuart Milner-Barry (1906), Roy Evans (1948), and Cat Deeley (1976). After him are Herbert Vaughan (1832), Ralph Brown (1957), James Fleet (1952), Nick Griffin (1959), Alex Cox (1954), and Shaun Wright-Phillips (1981).

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Among Composers In United Kingdom

Among composers born in United Kingdom, Oliver Knussen ranks 95. Before him are George Fenton (1950), John Stainer (1840), Ray Noble (1903), Stephen Warbeck (1953), Lennox Berkeley (1903), and Thomas Adès (1971). After him are Alan Bush (1900), George Butterworth (1885), Elisabeth Lutyens (1906), John Murphy (1965), William Alwyn (1905), and Judith Weir (1954).

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