COMPOSER

Amy Beach

1867 - 1944

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Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (September 5, 1867 – December 27, 1944) was an American composer and pianist. She was the first successful American female composer of large-scale art music. Her "Gaelic" Symphony, premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1896, was the first symphony composed and published by an American woman. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Amy Beach has received more than 634,900 page views. Her biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Amy Beach is the 715th most popular composer (down from 706th in 2019), the 3,415th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,413th in 2019) and the 38th most popular American Composer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 630k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.15

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.00

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.32

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Amy Beach ranks 715 out of 1,451. Before her are Wolfgang Schmieder, Michel Corrette, Vatroslav Lisinski, Anton Walter, Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini, and Josef Tal. After her are Nicolas Gombert, Kenji Kawai, František Brixi, Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann, Johann Krieger, and Sigismund von Neukomm.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1867, Amy Beach ranks 80. Before her are Patriarch Sergius of Moscow, Emil Krebs, Louise, Princess Royal, Anathon Aall, Holger Pedersen, and Alexander Vasiliev. After her are Dimitrios Gounaris, Hanns Hörbiger, Martin Kutta, Nilo Peçanha, Hjalmar Johansen, and Léon Daudet. Among people deceased in 1944, Amy Beach ranks 159. Before her are Lupe Vélez, Adolf Wagner, Abdurreshid Ibrahim, Peter Struve, Dadasaheb Phalke, and Nikolai Kuznetsov. After her are Wilhelm Falley, Eduard Wagner, Itzhak Katzenelson, Alberts Kviesis, Motobu Chōki, and Martin Kutta.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Amy Beach ranks 3,415 out of 20,380. Before her are Fred Quimby (1886), Hyman Minsky (1919), Bobby Brown (1969), Frederic Forrest (1936), James McDivitt (1929), and Damon Wayans (1960). After her are Henry Hazlitt (1894), Red Buttons (1919), Bruce Davison (1946), Jerry Siegel (1914), John C. McGinley (1959), and Philip Michael Thomas (1949).

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Among COMPOSERS In United States

Among composers born in United States, Amy Beach ranks 38. Before her are Basil Poledouris (1945), Morton Feldman (1926), Stephen Foster (1826), Alfred Newman (1900), Sun Ra (1914), and Alex North (1910). After her are Jerome Kern (1885), Dave Grusin (1934), La Monte Young (1935), Lee Konitz (1927), Thomas Newman (1955), and George Crumb (1929).

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