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Edward MacDowell

1860 - 1908

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Edward Alexander MacDowell (December 18, 1860 – January 23, 1908) was an American composer and pianist of the late Romantic period. He was best known for his second piano concerto and his piano suites Woodland Sketches, Sea Pieces and New England Idylls. Woodland Sketches includes his most popular short piece, "To a Wild Rose". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edward MacDowell has received more than 284,054 page views. Her biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. Edward MacDowell is the 785th most popular composer (up from 820th in 2019), the 3,767th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,993rd in 2019) and the 44th most popular American Composer.

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  • 51.99

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.58

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.36

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Edward MacDowell ranks 785 out of 1,216. Before her are André Caplet, Johann Gottlieb Graun, Nie Er, Paul Ben-Haim, Jan Kalivoda, and Johann Schobert. After her are Alexander Tcherepnin, Galina Ustvolskaya, Johann Andreas Stein, Joseph Jongen, Nikos Skalkottas, and Carlos Chávez.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, Edward MacDowell ranks 70. Before her are Paul Gustav Fischer, Carl Anton Larsen, Eugen Goldstein, Karel Kramář, Paul Ulrich Villard, and Joan Maragall. After her are Ottó Bláthy, William Bayliss, Hermann Kusmanek von Burgneustädten, Douglas Hyde, Emil von Reznicek, and Hugo Preuß. Among people deceased in 1908, Edward MacDowell ranks 49. Before her are Charles Chamberland, Herman Snellen, Ludovic Halévy, Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, Ouida, and Nikolai Linevich. After her are Georgy Voronoy, Jacob W. Davis, Giovanni Fattori, Andrew Graham, Mustafa Kamil Pasha, and Holger Drachmann.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edward MacDowell ranks 3,767 out of 18,182. Before her are Paul Castellano (1915), Nan Goldin (1953), Seymour Cassel (1935), Don Alden Adams (1925), Harry Hammond Hess (1906), and Maila Nurmi (1922). After her are David Harbour (1975), Donald Lippincott (1893), Bryce Dallas Howard (1981), Dennis Haysbert (1954), Don Simpson (1943), and Isaiah Washington (1963).

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Among COMPOSERS In United States

Among composers born in United States, Edward MacDowell ranks 44. Before her are Alex North (1910), Thomas Newman (1955), Sun Ra (1914), Dave Grusin (1934), Amy Beach (1867), and Harold Arlen (1905). After her are Jerome Kern (1885), Elliott Carter (1908), La Monte Young (1935), Lee Konitz (1927), Frederic Rzewski (1938), and Cathy Berberian (1925).

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