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Brian Ferneyhough

1943 - Today

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Brian John Peter Ferneyhough (; born 16 January 1943) is an English composer. Ferneyhough is typically considered the central figure of the New Complexity movement. Ferneyhough has taught composition at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg and the University of California, San Diego; he teaches at Stanford University and is a regular lecturer in the summer courses at Darmstädter Ferienkurse. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Brian Ferneyhough has received more than 210,145 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Brian Ferneyhough is the 1,017th most popular composer (up from 1,100th in 2019), the 2,874th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,273rd in 2019) and the 39th most popular British Composer.

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  • 210k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.26

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.76

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Brian Ferneyhough ranks 1,017 out of 1,451. Before him are Balys Dvarionas, Paul Taffanel, Adolf Fredrik Lindblad, Emil von Sauer, Victor Massé, and Knut Nystedt. After him are Julius Reubke, Nikolai Roslavets, Lorenzo Perosi, Andreas Hammerschmidt, Yuri Shaporin, and Aulis Sallinen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Brian Ferneyhough ranks 370. Before him are Katherine Karađorđević, Ertha Pascal-Trouillot, Crescenzio Sepe, Kenichi Ohmae, Ling Liong Sik, and Héctor Chumpitaz. After him are Leonid Ivashov, Michael Morpurgo, Boediono, John Draper, Ilaiyaraaja, and Jon Postel.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Brian Ferneyhough ranks 2,874 out of 8,785. Before him are Damaris Cudworth Masham (1659), Eleanor Hibbert (1906), Cara Delevingne (1992), Jenson Button (1980), Peter Pears (1910), and Billy Bremner (1942). After him are Joseph Morgan (1981), Sienna Guillory (1975), Stella McCartney (1971), Alfred Tysoe (1874), Jonathan Bailey (1988), and Charles Cameron (1746).

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Among COMPOSERS In United Kingdom

Among composers born in United Kingdom, Brian Ferneyhough ranks 39. Before him are Harry Gregson-Williams (1961), John Tavener (1944), Matthew Locke (1621), John Rutter (1945), Hamilton Harty (1879), and Rebecca Clarke (1886). After him are Richard Addinsell (1904), Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (1892), Christopher Hogwood (1941), Hubert Parry (1848), Patrick Doyle (1953), and York Bowen (1884).

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