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Howard Shore

1946 - Today

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Howard Leslie Shore (born October 18, 1946) is a Canadian composer, conductor and orchestrator noted for his film scores. He has composed the scores for over 80 films, most notably the scores for The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit film trilogies. He won three Academy Awards for his work on The Lord of the Rings, with one being for the song "Into the West", an award he shared with Eurythmics lead vocalist Annie Lennox and writer/producer Fran Walsh, who wrote the lyrics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Howard Shore has received more than 2,633,483 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Howard Shore is the 186th most popular composer (up from 228th in 2019), the 33rd most popular biography from Canada (up from 40th in 2019) and the most popular Canadian Composer.

Howard Shore is most famous for composing the score for the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies.

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  • 2.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 63.49

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 49

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.52

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Howard Shore ranks 186 out of 1,216Before him are Giuseppe Torelli, Pauline Viardot, Michael Haydn, John Field, Bohuslav Martinů, and Komitas. After him are Siegfried Wagner, Luciano Berio, Louis Spohr, Max Reger, Johann Joachim Quantz, and Ludwig Minkus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Howard Shore ranks 65Before him are Uri Geller, Bolo Yeung, Isaias Afwerki, Boris Berezovsky, Danny Glover, and Thongloun Sisoulith. After him are Jean Todt, Daniel Libeskind, Ed O'Neill, John Woo, Peter Singer, and Tim Curry.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Howard Shore ranks 33 out of 1,350Before him are Neil Young (1945), Robert Mundell (1932), Oswald Avery (1877), John Kenneth Galbraith (1908), Bryan Adams (1959), and Pierre Trudeau (1919). After him are Henry Mintzberg (1939), Richard E. Taylor (1929), René Angélil (1942), William Giauque (1895), Joni Mitchell (1943), and Paul Anka (1941).

Among COMPOSERS In Canada

Among composers born in Canada, Howard Shore ranks 1After him are Percy Faith (1908), Mychael Danna (1958), Christophe Beck (1972), Erik Mongrain (1980), and Venetian Snares (1975).

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