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George Crumb

1929 - 2022

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George Henry Crumb Jr. (24 October 1929 – 6 February 2022) was an American composer of avant-garde contemporary classical music. Early in his life he rejected the widespread modernist usage of serialism, developing a highly personal musical language which "range[s] in mood from peaceful to nightmarish". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Crumb has received more than 428,696 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). George Crumb is the 463rd most popular composer (up from 824th in 2019), the 2,204th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,025th in 2019) and the 25th most popular American Composer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 430k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.54

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.95

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, George Crumb ranks 463 out of 1,216. Before him are Franz Schmidt, Gaspar Sanz, Giacinto Scelsi, Stefano Landi, Florent Schmitt, and Richard Rodgers. After him are Raimonds Pauls, Franck Pourcel, Simon Mayr, Grock, Johann Christoph Pepusch, and Erwin Schulhoff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, George Crumb ranks 135. Before him are Édouard Balladur, Eric Carle, Zillur Rahman, Whitey Bulger, Kateb Yacine, and Vladimír Menšík. After him are Vasily Shukshin, Carlos Lacoste, Michael Michai Kitbunchu, Filaret, Roger Byrne, and Amitai Etzioni. Among people deceased in 2022, George Crumb ranks 108. Before him are Ichirou Mizuki, Richard Leakey, Javier Marías, Ronnie Hellström, Fatma Girik, and Máté Fenyvesi. After him are Catherine Spaak, Gaspard Ulliel, Patrick Tambay, Siniša Mihajlović, Fred Ward, and Nick Holonyak.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, George Crumb ranks 2,204 out of 18,182. Before him are Edward Witten (1951), Samuel Fuller (1912), Charles Whitman (1941), David Baltimore (1938), Lee J. Cobb (1911), and Annie Jump Cannon (1863). After him are Henry Winkler (1945), Thomas Tew (1649), Bill Finger (1914), Matt Dillon (1964), Wayne Shorter (1933), and Henry A. Wallace (1888).

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Among COMPOSERS In United States

Among composers born in United States, George Crumb ranks 25. Before him are Elmer Bernstein (1922), Alfred Newman (1900), Stephen Sondheim (1930), Terry Riley (1935), Michael Kamen (1948), and Richard Rodgers (1902). After him are Bill Conti (1942), Paul Bowles (1910), James Newton Howard (1951), Danny Elfman (1953), Stephen Foster (1826), and John Adams (1947).

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