New games! PlayTrivia andBirthle.

COMPOSER

Amy Beach

1867 - 1944

Photo of Amy Beach

Icon of person Amy Beach

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 577,512 page views. Her biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Amy Beach is the 707th most popular composer (up from 812th in 2019), the 3,422nd most popular biography from United States (up from 3,975th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular American Composer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 580k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.91

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.80

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Amy Beaches by language


Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Amy Beach ranks 707 out of 1,216. Before her are Alexander Mosolov, Benjamin Godard, Dave Grusin, Robert Cambert, Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, and Eduard Tubin. After her are Oskar Merikanto, Nicolas-Charles Bochsa, Michel Corrette, Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi, Juan Bautista Cabanilles, and Joseph Szigeti.

Most Popular Composers in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1867, Amy Beach ranks 75. Before her are Arthur Rackham, Phan Bội Châu, Jean-Baptiste Charcot, Patriarch Sergius of Moscow, Konstantin Balmont, and Dagny Juel. After her are Nilo Peçanha, Dimitrios Gounaris, William Speirs Bruce, Arnold Bennett, Holger Pedersen, and Prince Henri of Orléans. Among people deceased in 1944, Amy Beach ranks 153. Before her are Félix Fénéon, Miklós Radnóti, Peter Struve, Peter Yorck von Wartenburg, Missak Manouchian, and Benjamin Fondane. After her are Liviu Rebreanu, Regina Jonas, Lepke Buchalter, Itzhak Katzenelson, Lou Henry Hoover, and Alberts Kviesis.

Others Born in 1867

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1944

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In United States

Among people born in United States, Amy Beach ranks 3,422 out of 18,182. Before her are Evel Knievel (1938), Mancur Olson (1932), William Petersen (1953), Sean Combs (1969), Jay-Z (1969), and Robert Penn Warren (1905). After her are William Devane (1939), Randy Savage (1952), Frederick Wiseman (1930), Ken Kercheval (1935), Dean Corll (1939), and Stephen Curry (1988).

Others born in United States

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among COMPOSERS In United States

Among composers born in United States, Amy Beach ranks 42. Before her are Ernest Guiraud (1837), Basil Poledouris (1945), Alex North (1910), Thomas Newman (1955), Sun Ra (1914), and Dave Grusin (1934). After her are Harold Arlen (1905), Edward MacDowell (1860), Jerome Kern (1885), Elliott Carter (1908), La Monte Young (1935), and Lee Konitz (1927).

American born Composers

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous
  • DatawheelCL