COMPOSER

George Antheil

1900 - 1959

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George Johann Carl Antheil ( AN-tyle; July 8, 1900 – February 12, 1959) was an American avant-garde composer, pianist, author, and inventor whose modernist musical compositions explored the sounds – musical, industrial, and mechanical – of the early 20th century. Spending much of the 1920s in Europe, Antheil returned to the United States in the 1930s, and thereafter composed music for films, and eventually, television. As a result of this work, his style became more tonal. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Antheil has received more than 612,992 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). George Antheil is the 536th most popular composer (up from 545th in 2019), the 2,487th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,604th in 2019) and the 29th most popular American Composer.

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  • 610k

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  • 56.31

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.43

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.02

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, George Antheil ranks 536 out of 1,451. Before him are Ivan Zajc, François-Joseph Fétis, Edgard Varèse, Luigi Rossi, Paul Bowles, and Louis Couperin. After him are Vicente Martín y Soler, Manuel Ponce, Maxim Berezovsky, Ernest Guiraud, Gara Garayev, and Pietro Nardini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, George Antheil ranks 98. Before him are Coral Buttsworth, Sālote Tupou III, Yvonne de Gaulle, Emanuel Ringelblum, Leonardo Conti, and James Bond. After him are Mervyn LeRoy, Lorenzo Fernández, Violet Brown, Arturo Umberto Illia, Herbert Blumer, and Gilbert Ryle. Among people deceased in 1959, George Antheil ranks 55. Before him are Edvard Eriksen, Aleksandar Tsankov, Victor McLaglen, Benjamin Péret, Curt Sachs, and Jose P. Laurel. After him are Imre Schlosser, Jean Behra, Enrique Guaita, Hitoshi Ashida, Werner Krauss, and Dmitry Manuilsky.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, George Antheil ranks 2,487 out of 20,380. Before him are Terry Funk (1944), Paul Bowles (1910), David Lane (1938), Jeff Daniels (1955), Aaron Eckhart (1968), and Jesse Livermore (1877). After him are Julia Ann (1969), John Mearsheimer (1947), Nan Goldin (1953), Mervyn LeRoy (1900), Harry Dexter White (1892), and Sela Ward (1956).

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Among COMPOSERS In United States

Among composers born in United States, George Antheil ranks 29. Before him are Terry Riley (1935), John Adams (1947), Carmine Coppola (1910), Danny Elfman (1953), Michael Kamen (1948), and Paul Bowles (1910). After him are Ernest Guiraud (1837), Stephen Sondheim (1930), Basil Poledouris (1945), Morton Feldman (1926), Stephen Foster (1826), and Alfred Newman (1900).

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