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James Levine

1943 - 2021

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James Lawrence Levine ( liv-EYEN; June 23, 1943 – March 9, 2021) was an American conductor and pianist. He was music director of the Metropolitan Opera from 1976 to 2016. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Levine has received more than 1,037,990 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). James Levine is the 32nd most popular conductor (up from 33rd in 2019), the 2,294th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,460th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular American Conductor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.22

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.27

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.22

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among CONDUCTORS

Among conductors, James Levine ranks 32 out of 97Before him are Charles Dutoit, John Philip Sousa, Serge Koussevitzky, John Eliot Gardiner, Simon Rattle, and Franz Danzi. After him are Giuseppe Sinopoli, Fritz Reiner, George Szell, Leif Segerstam, Antal Doráti, and John Barbirolli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, James Levine ranks 153Before him are John Eliot Gardiner, Jacques Dutronc, Armando Guebuza, David Soul, Richard Sennett, and Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov. After him are Richard S. Hamilton, Björn Waldegård, Clément Mouamba, Boris Gromov, Joan Manuel Serrat, and Randy Newman. Among people deceased in 2021, James Levine ranks 158Before him are Pat Martino, Kentaro Miura, Sergei Kovalev, Luis del Sol, Cloris Leachman, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. After him are Vladimir Shatalov, Anna Chromý, Clément Mouamba, Enrique Bolaños, Etel Adnan, and Lucinda Riley.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, James Levine ranks 2,294 out of 18,182Before him are Gerard Damiano (1928), Michael Rosbash (1944), Peggy Lee (1920), Fredric Jameson (1934), Joseph D. Pistone (1939), and Jason Bateman (1969). After him are Bea Arthur (1922), Don Cheadle (1964), Tod Browning (1880), Billy Zane (1966), Bernard Malamud (1914), and Jim Caviezel (1968).

Among CONDUCTORS In United States

Among conductors born in United States, James Levine ranks 3Before him are Herbert Blomstedt (1927) and John Philip Sousa (1854). After him are Kent Nagano (1951), Charles Mackerras (1925), Dennis Russell Davies (1944), Arthur Fiedler (1894), and Alan Gilbert (1967).