COMPOSER

James Horner

1953 - 2015

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James Roy Horner (August 14, 1953 – June 22, 2015) was an American film composer. He worked on over 160 film and television productions between 1978 and 2015. He was known for the integration of choral and electronic elements alongside traditional orchestrations, and for his use of motifs associated with Celtic music.Horner won two Academy Awards for James Cameron's Titanic (1997), which became the best-selling orchestral film soundtrack of all time. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Horner has received more than 5,848,568 page views. His biography is available in 65 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 61 in 2019). James Horner is the 210th most popular composer (up from 216th in 2019), the 976th most popular biography from United States (down from 975th in 2019) and the 11th most popular American Composer.

James Horner is most famous for his work on films such as Titanic, Braveheart, and Avatar.

Memorability Metrics

  • 5.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 62.77

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 65

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.03

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.66

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of James Horners by language

Over the past year James Horner has had the most page views in the with 516,531 views, followed by Spanish (80,460), and French (55,905). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Kurdish (Sorani) (123.58%), Cantonese (95.61%), and Ido (86.57%)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, James Horner ranks 210 out of 1,451. Before him are Michael Praetorius, Gilles Binchois, Alessandro Marcello, Steve Reich, Angelo Badalamenti, and Pauline Viardot. After him are Josef Suk, Franz von Suppé, Niccolò Piccinni, Howard Shore, Francesco Landini, and Erich Wolfgang Korngold.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, James Horner ranks 39. Before him are Manuel Pellegrini, Hulk Hogan, Nigel Mansell, Ben Bernanke, Thomas Bach, and Jean-Pierre Jeunet. After him are Felix Magath, Paul Allen, Andrew Wiles, Alfred Molina, Kitarō, and Wang Yi. Among people deceased in 2015, James Horner ranks 48. Before him are Günter Schabowski, Colleen McCullough, James Last, Faten Hamama, Frei Otto, and René Girard. After him are Fatema Mernissi, Yves Chauvin, Benedict Anderson, Mathieu Kérékou, Michele Ferrero, and Richard F. Heck.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, James Horner ranks 976 out of 20,380. Before him are Lynn Margulis (1938), Bette Midler (1945), Mildred Harris (1901), Joseph Campbell (1904), Tom Waits (1949), and Julius Axelrod (1912). After him are Ritchie Valens (1941), John Archibald Wheeler (1911), Richard Dreyfuss (1947), Jonathan Demme (1944), Marilyn vos Savant (1946), and Queen Noor of Jordan (1951).

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Among COMPOSERS In United States

Among composers born in United States, James Horner ranks 11. Before him are Henry Mancini (1924), Philip Glass (1937), Samuel Barber (1910), Scott Joplin (1868), Steve Reich (1936), and Angelo Badalamenti (1937). After him are Jerry Goldsmith (1929), Alan Silvestri (1950), Bernard Herrmann (1911), Charles Ives (1874), Elmer Bernstein (1922), and Aaron Copland (1900).

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