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Gershon Kingsley

1922 - 2019

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Gershon Kingsley (born Götz Gustav Ksinski; October 28, 1922 – December 10, 2019) was a German-American composer, a pioneer of electronic music and the Moog synthesizer, a partner in the electronic music duo Perrey and Kingsley, founder of the First Moog Quartet, and writer of rock-inspired compositions for Jewish religious ceremonies. Kingsley is most famous for his 1969 influential electronic instrumental composition "Popcorn". Kingsley conducted and arranged many Broadway musicals, and he composed for film, television shows and commercials. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gershon Kingsley has received more than 338,101 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Gershon Kingsley is the 543rd most popular composer (down from 523rd in 2019), the 2,121st most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,994th in 2019) and the 82nd most popular German Composer.

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  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.22

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Gershon Kingsley ranks 543 out of 1,451. Before him are Vicente Martín y Soler, Manuel Ponce, Maxim Berezovsky, Ernest Guiraud, Gara Garayev, and Pietro Nardini. After him are Johannes Ciconia, Hans Krása, Luis Bacalov, Frederick Delius, Jean-François Le Sueur, and Hermann Abendroth.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Gershon Kingsley ranks 132. Before him are Pierre Hadot, Alexander Zinoviev, Taro Kagawa, Yuri Averbakh, Ivry Gitlis, and Luis Somoza Debayle. After him are Cyd Charisse, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, András Hegedüs, Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Russ Meyer, and Dana Zátopková. Among people deceased in 2019, Gershon Kingsley ranks 118. Before him are Eddie Money, Emanuel Ungaro, Andrés Gimeno, Hirokazu Kanazawa, James Ingram, and Katherine Helmond. After him are Jean Starobinski, Dawda Jawara, John C. Bogle, Godfried Danneels, Monkey Punch, and Jacques Loussier.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Gershon Kingsley ranks 2,121 out of 7,253. Before him are Walter Sickert (1860), Edwin Freiherr von Manteuffel (1809), Helmuth Plessner (1892), Landgravine Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel (1627), Edmund Heines (1897), and Hanns Heinz Ewers (1871). After him are Prince Francis Xavier of Saxony (1730), Judith of Schweinfurt (1003), Yehuda Amichai (1924), Albert II, Duke of Mecklenburg (1318), Augustus, Grand Duke of Oldenburg (1783), and Eilhard Mitscherlich (1794).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Gershon Kingsley ranks 82. Before him are Franz Abt (1819), Peter Cornelius (1824), Carl Friedrich Zelter (1758), Curt Sachs (1881), Fredrik Pacius (1809), and Johann Christoph Bach (1671). After him are Hermann Abendroth (1883), Johann Crüger (1598), Helmut Walcha (1907), Friedrich Wieck (1785), Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918), and Hermann Levi (1839).

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