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Elliott Carter

1908 - 2012

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Elliott Cook Carter Jr. (December 11, 1908 – November 5, 2012) was an American modernist composer. One of the most respected composers of the second half of the 20th century, he combined elements of European modernism and American "ultra-modernism" into a distinctive style with a personal harmonic and rhythmic language, after an early neoclassical phase. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elliott Carter has received more than 396,643 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 25 in 2019). Elliott Carter is the 836th most popular composer (down from 781st in 2019), the 4,058th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,798th in 2019) and the 46th most popular American Composer.

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  • 400k

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  • 51.32

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.96

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Elliott Carter ranks 836 out of 1,216Before him are Jerome Kern, Ivan Larionov, Käbi Laretei, Claudin de Sermisy, Nikolai Zaremba, and Robert Volkmann. After him are Emil von Reznicek, Korla Awgust Kocor, La Monte Young, Nobuo Uematsu, Antonín Vranický, and Anthony van Hoboken.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Elliott Carter ranks 160Before him are Boris Polevoy, Bengt Strömgren, Luis Regueiro, Winston Graham, Leo Sternbach, and René Daumal. After him are Gideon Ståhlberg, Edoardo Amaldi, Olga Benário Prestes, Joseph Keilberth, Héctor Trujillo, and Peg Entwistle. Among people deceased in 2012, Elliott Carter ranks 173Before him are Ann Rutherford, I. K. Gujral, Jiří Raška, Leonardo Favio, Vicar, and Georgi Lozanov. After him are Fiorenzo Magni, Boris Parygin, Celeste Holm, John Atta Mills, William Thurston, and John Hick.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Elliott Carter ranks 4,058 out of 18,182Before him are Nile Rodgers (1952), William Forsythe (1949), Joseph Strauss (1870), Katherine Helmond (1929), John Tukey (1915), and Billy Blanks (1955). After him are Hope Lange (1933), Toni Braxton (1967), Walter Cunningham (1932), Howard Stern (1954), Tim Russ (1956), and Antonia Maury (1866).

Among COMPOSERS In United States

Among composers born in United States, Elliott Carter ranks 46Before him are Sun Ra (1914), Dave Grusin (1934), Amy Beach (1867), Harold Arlen (1905), Edward MacDowell (1860), and Jerome Kern (1885). After him are La Monte Young (1935), Lee Konitz (1927), Frederic Rzewski (1938), Cathy Berberian (1925), W. C. Handy (1873), and Marvin Hamlisch (1944).