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Gavin Bryars

1943 - Today

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Richard Gavin Bryars (; born 16 January 1943) is an English composer and double bassist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gavin Bryars has received more than 278,321 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Gavin Bryars is the 1,279th most popular composer (down from 1,115th in 2019), the 4,418th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,367th in 2019) and the 69th most popular British Composer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 280k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.67

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.26

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Gavin Bryars ranks 1,279 out of 1,451. Before him are Geirr Tveitt, Yasuharu Takanashi, Toshio Hosokawa, Lepo Sumera, Boris Tishchenko, and Federico Chueca. After him are Vincent Youmans, Morten Lauridsen, Necil Kazım Akses, Pascal Dusapin, Florence Price, and Monty Norman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Gavin Bryars ranks 567. Before him are Bertil Roos, Sly Stone, Pedro Pablo León, Richard Eyre, Mirsad Fazlagić, and Daniel Robin. After him are Morten Lauridsen, Kaoru Ikeya, Toni Basil, Mariann Fischer Boel, Stephen Greenblatt, and Silvia Cartwright.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Gavin Bryars ranks 4,418 out of 8,785. Before him are Chris Thomas (1947), William Yarrell (1784), James Collinson (1825), Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford (1946), John Morton (1420), and Maud Gonne (1866). After him are Thomas Nuttall (1786), Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury (1801), Richard Garriott (1961), Abraham Cowley (1618), Jeremy Spencer (1948), and Richard Sinclair (1948).

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Among COMPOSERS In United Kingdom

Among composers born in United Kingdom, Gavin Bryars ranks 69. Before him are Thomas Linley the younger (1756), Rachel Portman (1960), Maurice Greene (1696), Samuel Arnold (1740), John Ireland (1879), and Thomas Weelkes (1576). After him are Monty Norman (1928), William Sterndale Bennett (1816), Thomas Tomkins (1572), George Fenton (1950), David Arnold (1962), and Jocelyn Pook (1960).

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