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Cathy Berberian

1925 - 1983

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Catherine Anahid Berberian (July 4, 1925 – March 6, 1983) was an American mezzo-soprano and composer based in Italy. She worked closely with many contemporary avant-garde music composers, including Luciano Berio, Bruno Maderna, John Cage, Henri Pousseur, Sylvano Bussotti, Darius Milhaud, Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, and Igor Stravinsky. She also interpreted works by Claudio Monteverdi, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Kurt Weill, Philipp zu Eulenburg and others. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cathy Berberian has received more than 156,535 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Cathy Berberian is the 868th most popular composer (down from 621st in 2019), the 4,231st most popular biography from United States (down from 1,763rd in 2019) and the 50th most popular American Composer.

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  • 17

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  • 4.19

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Cathy Berberian ranks 868 out of 1,216. Before her are Vincent Lübeck, Ralph Benatzky, Heinrich Bach, Jean Mouton, Heinrich Sutermeister, and Giaches de Wert. After her are Cornelius Gurlitt, Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens, Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, Adolf Wiklund, Alexei Lvov, and Salvatore Sciarrino.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Cathy Berberian ranks 214. Before her are Philippe Jaccottet, Bobbejaan Schoepen, Otto Muehl, Rubem Fonseca, José Napoleón Duarte, and Seymour Cray. After her are Julian Beck, Duane Hanson, Ignacio López Tarso, Ernst Neizvestny, Doris Roberts, and John Cocke. Among people deceased in 1983, Cathy Berberian ranks 120. Before her are Anthony van Hoboken, Juan Carlos Zabala, Herman Kahn, József Takács, Roy Sullivan, and Archduchess Rosa of Austria. After her are Raymond Massey, Bill Brandt, Rudolf Wolters, Nichita Stănescu, Burrill Bernard Crohn, and John Williams.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Cathy Berberian ranks 4,231 out of 18,182. Before her are Margaret Sullavan (1909), Fernando J. Corbató (1926), Charles Dvorak (1878), Edward S. Curtis (1868), Robert Lansing (1864), and Robert Parish (1953). After her are Valerie Perrine (1943), Charles Coburn (1877), Chester Conklin (1886), Amelia Bloomer (1818), Jonah Hill (1983), and Jared Padalecki (1982).

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Among COMPOSERS In United States

Among composers born in United States, Cathy Berberian ranks 50. Before her are Edward MacDowell (1860), Jerome Kern (1885), Elliott Carter (1908), La Monte Young (1935), Lee Konitz (1927), and Frederic Rzewski (1938). After her are W. C. Handy (1873), Marvin Hamlisch (1944), Meredith Monk (1942), Walter Piston (1894), Frank Churchill (1901), and Harry Partch (1901).

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