New games! PlayTrivia andBirthle.

COMPOSER

Iannis Xenakis

1922 - 2001

Photo of Iannis Xenakis

Icon of person Iannis Xenakis

Giannis Klearchou Xenakis (also spelled for professional purposes as Yannis or Iannis Xenakis; Greek: Γιάννης "Ιωάννης" Κλέαρχου Ξενάκης, pronounced [ˈʝanis kseˈnacis]; 29 May 1922 – 4 February 2001) was a Romanian-born Greek-French avant-garde composer, music theorist, architect, performance director and engineer. After 1947, he fled Greece, becoming a naturalised citizen of France eighteen years later. 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 858,994 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia. Iannis Xenakis is the 134th most popular composer (up from 139th in 2019), the 29th most popular biography from Romania (down from 26th 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.

Memorability Metrics

  • 860k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 66.27

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 43

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.58

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Iannis Xenakis by language


Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Iannis Xenakis ranks 134 out of 1,216. Before him are Carl Nielsen, Johannes Ockeghem, Paul Dukas, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Maurice Jarre, and Émile Jaques-Dalcroze. After him are César Cui, Emmerich Kálmán, Pierre Boulez, Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, Michel Legrand, and Léonin.

Most Popular Composers in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Iannis Xenakis ranks 23. Before him are Emil Zátopek, Christiaan Barnard, Gérard Philipe, Imre Lakatos, Aage Bohr, and Kurt Vonnegut. After him are Betty White, Hans Georg Dehmelt, Otto Carius, Vittorio Gassman, Doris Day, and Alain Resnais. Among people deceased in 2001, Iannis Xenakis ranks 15. Before him are Jack Lemmon, Herbert A. Simon, Didi, Christiaan Barnard, Sabiha Gökçen, and Léopold Sédar Senghor. After him are Fred Hoyle, Wilhelm Mohnke, Laurent-Désiré Kabila, Ernst Gombrich, Alberto Korda, and William Hanna.

Others Born in 1922

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 2001

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Iannis Xenakis ranks 29 out of 665. Before him are Ion Iliescu (1930), Mircea Lucescu (1945), György Ligeti (1923), Theodoric I (393), Nadia Comăneci (1961), and Elie Wiesel (1928). After him are Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej (1901), Gheorghe Zamfir (1941), Michael the Brave (1558), Mihai Eminescu (1850), Jacob L. Moreno (1889), and George Enescu (1881).

Others born in Romania

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among COMPOSERS In Romania

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), Vladimir Cosma (1940), György Kurtág (1926), Bálint Bakfark (1507), Péter Eötvös (1944), Sándor Végh (1912), and Sándor Veress (1907).

Romanian born Composers

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous
  • DatawheelCL