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Elmer Bernstein

1922 - 2004

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Elmer Bernstein ( BURN-steen; April 4, 1922 – August 18, 2004) was an American composer and conductor. In a career that spanned over five decades, he composed "some of the most recognizable and memorable themes in Hollywood history", including over 150 original film scores, as well as scores for nearly 80 television productions. For his work, he received an Academy Award for Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) and Primetime Emmy Award. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elmer Bernstein has received more than 1,405,242 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia. Elmer Bernstein is the 352nd most popular composer (up from 384th in 2019), the 1,645th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,760th in 2019) and the 19th most popular American Composer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.77

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.99

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Elmer Bernstein ranks 352 out of 1,216. Before him are Vladimir Cosma, Willem Mengelberg, Toru Takemitsu, Karl Richter, Louis Marchand, and Carl Loewe. After him are Luigi Dallapiccola, Johann Adam Reincken, Dimitri Tiomkin, Michel Richard Delalande, Jan Ladislav Dussek, and Georg Muffat.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Elmer Bernstein ranks 80. Before him are Mao Anying, Roger Etchegaray, Enrico Berlinguer, Arthur Penn, Karl-Otto Apel, and Annemarie Schimmel. After him are Abdul Razak Hussein, Veronica Lake, Gianna Beretta Molla, Charles Mingus, Leon M. Lederman, and Hussein-Ali Montazeri. Among people deceased in 2004, Elmer Bernstein ranks 50. Before him are John Pople, Herbert C. Brown, Julia Child, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Otto Kumm, and José López Portillo y Pacheco. After him are Fanny Blankers-Koen, Ko Yong-hui, Richard Avedon, Johnny Ramone, Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, and Raymond Goethals.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Elmer Bernstein ranks 1,645 out of 18,182. Before him are Sidney Bechet (1897), Billy Crystal (1948), Agnes Moorehead (1900), Henry Steel Olcott (1832), Robert Fogel (1926), and Ray Ewry (1873). After him are Thomas Burke (1875), Emma Stone (1988), Karl Barry Sharpless (1941), Beck (1970), Stanley Donen (1924), and Christina Onassis (1950).

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Among COMPOSERS In United States

Among composers born in United States, Elmer Bernstein ranks 19. Before him are Aaron Copland (1900), Charles Ives (1874), Alan Silvestri (1950), Bernard Herrmann (1911), Angelo Badalamenti (1937), and Leroy Anderson (1908). After him are Alfred Newman (1900), Stephen Sondheim (1930), Terry Riley (1935), Michael Kamen (1948), Richard Rodgers (1902), and George Crumb (1929).

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