COMPOSER

Florence Price

1887 - 1953

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Florence Beatrice Price (née Smith; April 9, 1887 – June 3, 1953) was an American classical composer, pianist, organist and music teacher. Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, Price was educated at the New England Conservatory of Music, and was active in Chicago from 1927 until her death in 1953. Price is noted as the first African-American woman to be recognized as a symphonic composer, and the first to have a composition played by a major orchestra. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Florence Price has received more than 768,057 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Florence Price is the 1,284th most popular composer, the 8,803rd most popular biography from United States and the 95th most popular American Composer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 770k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.17

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.04

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Florence Price ranks 1,284 out of 1,451. Before her are Federico Chueca, Gavin Bryars, Vincent Youmans, Morten Lauridsen, Necil Kazım Akses, and Pascal Dusapin. After her are Monty Norman, Harald Kloser, William Sterndale Bennett, Rauf Hajiyev, John Kander, and Näcip Cihanov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Florence Price ranks 256. Before her are Sigurd Jørgensen, Emil Magnusson, L. S. Lowry, Arne Halse, Teodor Koskenniemi, and Charles Reisner. After her are Barnes Wallis, Sigmund Romberg, Gustaf Rosenquist, Jorge de Paiva, Robinson Jeffers, and Nils Middelboe. Among people deceased in 1953, Florence Price ranks 172. Before her are Ludomir Różycki, Charles R. Knight, Millard Mitchell, Georg Zacharias, Albert Coates, and Maud Gonne. After her are Maurice Vignerot, Herbert E. Ives, Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Annie Kenney, Fred M. Vinson, and Paul Niggli.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Florence Price ranks 8,803 out of 20,380. Before her are Melville Shavelson (1917), Harold Solomon (1952), Daniel von Bargen (1950), James E. Gunn (1923), Elizabeth Reaser (1975), and Margaret Truman (1924). After her are Jack McDevitt (1935), Edwin Foster Coddington (1870), Austin Butler (1991), Garrett Morris (1937), Edith Abbott (1876), and Frederick Moloney (1882).

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Among COMPOSERS In United States

Among composers born in United States, Florence Price ranks 95. Before her are Rhys Chatham (1952), David Raksin (1912), Virgil Thomson (1896), Paul Williams (1940), Vincent Youmans (1898), and Morten Lauridsen (1943). After her are John Kander (1927), Spike Jones (1911), Howard Hanson (1896), Steve Jablonsky (1970), H. C. Robbins Landon (1926), and James Scott (1885).

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