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Alex North

1910 - 1991

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Alex North (born Isadore Soifer, December 4, 1910 – September 8, 1991) was an American composer best known for his many film scores, including A Streetcar Named Desire (one of the first jazz-based film scores), Viva Zapata!, Spartacus, Cleopatra, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? He received fifteen Academy Award nominations for his work as a composer; while he did not win for any of his nominations, he received an Honorary Academy Award in 1986, the first for a composer. He wrote the music for Unchained Melody as the theme for the prison film Unchained (1955), It has become a standard and one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century, with over 1,500 recordings made by more than 670 artists, in multiple languages. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alex North has received more than 494,251 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Alex North is the 646th most popular composer (down from 526th in 2019), the 3,068th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,451st in 2019) and the 38th most popular American Composer.

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  • 490k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.79

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.91

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Alex North ranks 646 out of 1,216. Before him are Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, Charles Lecocq, Dora Pejačević, Domenico Gabrielli, Giovanni Battista Vitali, and Nicolas Gombert. After him are Jean-Féry Rebel, Malcolm Arnold, Heinz Holliger, Shunsuke Kikuchi, Riccardo Zandonai, and Matthias Weckmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Alex North ranks 115. Before him are Benzion Netanyahu, Ai Qing, Cao Yu, Rudolf Kempe, Scatman Crothers, and Irmfried Eberl. After him are Barbara O'Neil, Gerhard Schröder, Enrique Guaita, Howlin' Wolf, Magda Olivero, and Viktors Arājs. Among people deceased in 1991, Alex North ranks 87. Before him are Yevgeny Dragunov, Richard Thorpe, Princess Fahrelnissa Zeid, Étienne Decroux, André Pieyre de Mandiargues, and Jean Bruller. After him are Vasko Popa, Kevin Peter Hall, Rufino Tamayo, Giacomo Manzù, Shintaro Abe, and Heidi Brühl.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alex North ranks 3,068 out of 18,182. Before him are Marie Smith Jones (1918), Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (1923), James Rothman (1950), James J. Gibson (1904), Dwight F. Davis (1879), and Jennifer Beals (1963). After him are Douglas Hofstadter (1945), Michelle Monaghan (1976), John Waters (1946), Calista Flockhart (1964), Geoffrey Lewis (1935), and Robert James Waller (1939).

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Among COMPOSERS In United States

Among composers born in United States, Alex North ranks 38. Before him are George Antheil (1900), Morton Feldman (1926), Carmine Coppola (1910), Jonathan Larson (1960), Ernest Guiraud (1837), and Basil Poledouris (1945). After him are Thomas Newman (1955), Sun Ra (1914), Dave Grusin (1934), Amy Beach (1867), Harold Arlen (1905), and Edward MacDowell (1860).

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