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Harry Partch

1901 - 1974

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Harry Partch (June 24, 1901 – September 3, 1974) was an American composer, music theorist, and creator of unique musical instruments. He composed using scales of unequal intervals in just intonation, and was one of the first 20th-century composers in the West to work systematically with microtonal scales, alongside Lou Harrison. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Harry Partch has received more than 557,282 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia. Harry Partch is the 1,103rd most popular composer (down from 1,017th in 2019), the 6,113th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,233rd in 2019) and the 62nd most popular American Composer.

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  • 48.88

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.88

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Harry Partch ranks 1,103 out of 1,451. Before him are W. C. Handy, Abdylas Maldybaev, Rudolf Tobias, Zygmunt Noskowski, Rudolf Friml, and Kārlis Baumanis. After him are Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, Alexander Moyzes, Vilém Blodek, Johann Nepomuk David, Robert Franz, and Luis de Pablo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Harry Partch ranks 224. Before him are Enrique Santos Discépolo, Otto Kaiser, Jakub Berman, Marie Luise Kaschnitz, Paul Verhoeven, and Mark Donskoy. After him are Rudolf Wetzer, Oleksiy Fedorov, Bebe Daniels, Joseph Wendel, Sid Atkinson, and Ondino Viera. Among people deceased in 1974, Harry Partch ranks 165. Before him are Élie Lescot, Ned Maddrell, Alfred Keller, Marie Luise Kaschnitz, Konrad Frey, and Glenn Morris. After him are Else Alfelt, Ali Mansur, Fred Kelly, Lily Kronberger, Francis Blanche, and Franz Wagner.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Harry Partch ranks 6,113 out of 20,380. Before him are Michael Paré (1958), Jack Oakie (1903), John Baldessari (1931), Sarah Shahi (1980), Timbaland (1972), and Meg Tilly (1960). After him are Emma Tillman (1892), Samuel Garman (1843), Russell Kirk (1918), Kitty Winn (1944), Grace Bumbry (1937), and Arsenio Hall (1956).

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Among COMPOSERS In United States

Among composers born in United States, Harry Partch ranks 62. Before him are Frederic Rzewski (1938), Peter H. Gilmore (1958), Leonard Rosenman (1924), Carter Burwell (1954), Raymond Scott (1908), and W. C. Handy (1873). After him are Morton Gould (1913), Roger Sessions (1896), Frank Churchill (1901), Gunther Schuller (1925), Leigh Harline (1907), and Paul Whiteman (1890).

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