COMPOSER

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 2,817,485 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia. Howard Shore is the 214th most popular composer (down from 186th in 2019), the 42nd most popular biography from Canada (down from 33rd 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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  • 2.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 62.69

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 49

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.49

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.04

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Howard Shore ranks 214 out of 1,451. Before him are Angelo Badalamenti, Pauline Viardot, James Horner, Josef Suk, Franz von Suppé, and Niccolò Piccinni. After him are Francesco Landini, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Maurizio Pollini, Lili Boulanger, Andrea Gabrieli, and Ion Ivanovici.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Howard Shore ranks 84. Before him are Julian Barnes, Sabine Bergmann-Pohl, Xanana Gusmão, Ahmed Zewail, Philip Pullman, and Marilyn vos Savant. After him are Brian Cox, Daniel Goleman, Ed O'Neill, John Paul Jones, John Heard, and Janet Yellen.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Howard Shore ranks 42 out of 1,622. Before him are René Angélil (1942), Arthur B. McDonald (1943), Bertram Brockhouse (1918), Oswald Avery (1877), Drake (1986), and Jim Peebles (1935). After him are Henry Mintzberg (1939), John Kenneth Galbraith (1908), Mary Pickford (1892), Joni Mitchell (1943), Princess Margriet of the Netherlands (1943), and Paul Anka (1941).

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Among COMPOSERS In Canada

Among composers born in Canada, Howard Shore ranks 1. After him are R. Murray Schafer (1933), Percy Faith (1908), Mychael Danna (1958), Claude Vivier (1948), Christophe Beck (1972), Erik Mongrain (1980), and Venetian Snares (1975).

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