1922 - 2001
Iannis Xenakis (also spelled as Yannis Xenakis; Greek: Γιάννης (Ιάννης) Ξενάκης, pronounced [ˈʝanis kseˈnacis]; 29 May 1922 – 4 February 2001) was a Greek-French composer, music theorist, architect, performance director and engineer. After 1947, he fled Greece, becoming a naturalized citizen of France. Xenakis pioneered the use of mathematical models in music such as applications of set theory, stochastic processes and game theory and was also an important influence on the development of electronic and computer music. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Iannis Xenakis has received more than 519,348 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Iannis Xenakis is the 139th most popular composer (up from 148th in 2019), the 26th most popular biography from Romania (up from 31st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Romanian Composer.
Iannis Xenakis is most famous for his use of mathematical models in his compositions. He was also a pioneer in the field of electronic music.
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Among composers, Iannis Xenakis ranks 139 out of 1,228. Before him are Maurice Jarre, Paul Dukas, Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, Heitor Villa-Lobos, and Manuel de Falla. After him are Henry Mancini, Philip Glass, Kurt Weill, Johann Ambrosius Bach, Scott Joplin, and Darius Milhaud.
1924 - 2009
HPI: 74.46
Rank: 133
1865 - 1935
HPI: 74.46
Rank: 134
1760 - 1836
HPI: 74.44
Rank: 135
1865 - 1950
HPI: 74.39
Rank: 136
1887 - 1959
HPI: 74.37
Rank: 137
1876 - 1946
HPI: 74.31
Rank: 138
1922 - 2001
HPI: 74.26
Rank: 139
1924 - 1994
HPI: 74.01
Rank: 140
1937 - Present
HPI: 74.00
Rank: 141
1900 - 1950
HPI: 73.98
Rank: 142
1645 - 1695
HPI: 73.96
Rank: 143
1868 - 1917
HPI: 73.94
Rank: 144
1892 - 1974
HPI: 73.92
Rank: 145
Among people born in 1922, Iannis Xenakis ranks 26. Before him are Doris Day, Kurt Vonnegut, Christiaan Barnard, Stanley Cohen, Imre Lakatos, and Alain Resnais. After him are Philip Larkin, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Otto Carius, Telly Savalas, Agostinho Neto, and Jason Robards. Among people deceased in 2001, Iannis Xenakis ranks 14. Before him are Herbert A. Simon, Sabiha Gökçen, Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary, Jack Lemmon, Léopold Sédar Senghor, and Christiaan Barnard. After him are Ahmad Shah Massoud, Ernst Gombrich, William Hanna, Fred Hoyle, Robert Ludlum, and Laurent-Désiré Kabila.
1922 - 2019
HPI: 75.29
Rank: 20
1922 - 2007
HPI: 75.16
Rank: 21
1922 - 2001
HPI: 75.04
Rank: 22
1922 - 2020
HPI: 75.01
Rank: 23
1922 - 1974
HPI: 74.98
Rank: 24
1922 - 2014
HPI: 74.49
Rank: 25
1922 - 2001
HPI: 74.26
Rank: 26
1922 - 1985
HPI: 74.19
Rank: 27
1922 - 2008
HPI: 73.89
Rank: 28
1922 - 2015
HPI: 73.64
Rank: 29
1922 - 1994
HPI: 73.56
Rank: 30
1922 - 1979
HPI: 73.35
Rank: 31
1922 - 2000
HPI: 72.89
Rank: 32
1916 - 2001
HPI: 75.79
Rank: 8
1913 - 2001
HPI: 75.68
Rank: 9
1932 - 2001
HPI: 75.44
Rank: 10
1925 - 2001
HPI: 75.09
Rank: 11
1906 - 2001
HPI: 75.05
Rank: 12
1922 - 2001
HPI: 75.04
Rank: 13
1922 - 2001
HPI: 74.26
Rank: 14
1953 - 2001
HPI: 74.15
Rank: 15
1909 - 2001
HPI: 73.87
Rank: 16
1910 - 2001
HPI: 73.85
Rank: 17
1915 - 2001
HPI: 73.79
Rank: 18
1927 - 2001
HPI: 73.37
Rank: 19
1939 - 2001
HPI: 73.36
Rank: 20
Among people born in Romania, Iannis Xenakis ranks 26 out of 572. Before him are Paul Celan (1920), Stephen III of Moldavia (1433), György Ligeti (1923), Ion Iliescu (1930), Herta Müller (1953), and Theodoric I (393). After him are Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej (1901), Jacob L. Moreno (1889), Elie Wiesel (1928), Bela Lugosi (1882), George Enescu (1881), and János Bolyai (1802).
1920 - 1970
HPI: 76.28
Rank: 20
1433 - 1504
HPI: 75.78
Rank: 21
1923 - 2006
HPI: 75.35
Rank: 22
1930 - Present
HPI: 75.30
Rank: 23
1953 - Present
HPI: 74.80
Rank: 24
393 - 451
HPI: 74.70
Rank: 25
1922 - 2001
HPI: 74.26
Rank: 26
1901 - 1965
HPI: 74.08
Rank: 27
1889 - 1974
HPI: 73.84
Rank: 28
1928 - 2016
HPI: 73.81
Rank: 29
1882 - 1956
HPI: 73.60
Rank: 30
1881 - 1955
HPI: 73.60
Rank: 31
1802 - 1860
HPI: 73.42
Rank: 32
Among composers born in Romania, Iannis Xenakis ranks 3. Before him are Béla Bartók (1881) and György Ligeti (1923). After him are George Enescu (1881), Ion Ivanovici (1845), György Kurtág (1926), Vladimir Cosma (1940), Bálint Bakfark (1507), Péter Eötvös (1944), and Sándor Veress (1907).
1881 - 1945
HPI: 82.20
Rank: 1
1923 - 2006
HPI: 75.35
Rank: 2
1922 - 2001
HPI: 74.26
Rank: 3
1881 - 1955
HPI: 73.60
Rank: 4
1845 - 1902
HPI: 70.33
Rank: 5
1926 - Present
HPI: 68.28
Rank: 6
1940 - Present
HPI: 68.08
Rank: 7
1507 - 1576
HPI: 64.56
Rank: 8
1944 - Present
HPI: 63.50
Rank: 9
1907 - 1992
HPI: 61.91
Rank: 10