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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. His compositions were eclectic and vary between avant-garde and pop styles. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gershon Kingsley has received more than 318,011 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Gershon Kingsley is the 523rd most popular composer (down from 455th in 2019), the 1,996th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,719th in 2019) and the 80th most popular German Composer.

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  • 55.61

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Gershon Kingsley ranks 523 out of 1,216. Before him are Bronius Kutavičius, Manuel Ponce, Ferenc Erkel, Hervé, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, and Edgard Varèse. After him are Jean Françaix, Alexandre Guilmant, Johann Georg Pisendel, Eleni Karaindrou, Riz Ortolani, and Zbigniew Preisner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Gershon Kingsley ranks 126. Before him are Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Jonas Mekas, Shigeru Mizuki, Pierre Hadot, Olga Ladyzhenskaya, and Dana Zátopková. After him are Leo Tindemans, Manuel Fraga, Raymond Franz, Vasili Mitrokhin, Eleanor Parker, and Sōsuke Uno. Among people deceased in 2019, Gershon Kingsley ranks 112. Before him are Guillermo Mordillo, Hirokazu Kanazawa, Dawda Jawara, Georgiy Daneliya, Branko Lustig, and Monkey Punch. After him are Yukiya Amano, Klaus Kinkel, Sue Lyon, Dina bint Abdul-Hamid, Rip Torn, and Rafi Eitan.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Gershon Kingsley ranks 1,996 out of 6,142. Before him are Wilhelm Dörpfeld (1853), Karl Ernst (1904), Paul Gerhardt (1607), Lotte Reiniger (1899), William, Prince of Hohenzollern (1864), and Landgravine Marie Louise of Hesse-Kassel (1688). After him are Eduard Meyer (1855), Julius Plücker (1801), Siegfried Marcus (1831), Princess Mathilde Caroline of Bavaria (1813), Rachel Félix (1821), and Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim (1771).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Gershon Kingsley ranks 80. Before him are Reinhard Keiser (1674), Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach (1759), Curt Sachs (1881), Max Richter (1966), Christoph Graupner (1683), and Friedrich Wieck (1785). After him are Johann Georg Pisendel (1687), Helmut Lachenmann (1935), Karl Amadeus Hartmann (1905), Fredrik Pacius (1809), Johann David Heinichen (1683), and Aloysia Weber (1760).

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