COMPOSER

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 305,628 page views. Her biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 29 in 2019). Edward MacDowell is the 841st most popular composer (down from 784th in 2019), the 4,083rd most popular biography from United States (down from 3,757th in 2019) and the 45th most popular American Composer.

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  • 310k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.85

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.70

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Edward MacDowell ranks 841 out of 1,451. Before her are Nikos Skalkottas, George Crumb, Ramin Djawadi, Simon Sechter, André Caplet, and André Cardinal Destouches. After her are Franz Anton Hoffmeister, Stanley Myers, Charles Villiers Stanford, Louis Niedermeyer, Heinrich Bach, and Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, Edward MacDowell ranks 86. Before her are Franz Nissl, Florence Harding, Henrietta Szold, Joan Maragall, Charles Lwanga, and John Scott Haldane. After her are Ellen Axson Wilson, Emil von Reznicek, Alberto Franchetti, Juan Bautista Aznar-Cabañas, Nikolai Ottovich von Essen, and Henri-Jean Guillaume Martin. Among people deceased in 1908, Edward MacDowell ranks 59. Before her are Nikolai Linevich, Giovanni Fattori, Abraham Goldfaden, Nicolás Salmerón y Alonso, Charles Barbier de Meynard, and Valtazar Bogišić. After her are William Edward Ayrton, Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Altenburg, Jacob W. Davis, Walery Antoni Wróblewski, Heinrich Hübschmann, and Friedrich von Esmarch.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edward MacDowell ranks 4,083 out of 20,380. Before her are Peter Benchley (1940), Leonard Adleman (1945), George M. Dallas (1792), John Nance Garner (1868), Philip Bosco (1930), and Ann Morgan Guilbert (1928). After her are Bruce Cabot (1904), Eddie Guerrero (1967), Jack Klugman (1922), Chuck Hagel (1946), Robert Parish (1953), and William Kaelin Jr. (1957).

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Among COMPOSERS In United States

Among composers born in United States, Edward MacDowell ranks 45. Before her are Jerome Kern (1885), Dave Grusin (1934), La Monte Young (1935), Lee Konitz (1927), Thomas Newman (1955), and George Crumb (1929). After her are Meredith Monk (1942), David Del Tredici (1937), Cathy Berberian (1925), Elliott Carter (1908), William Christie (1944), and Marvin Hamlisch (1944).

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