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John Adams

1947 - Today

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John Coolidge Adams (born February 15, 1947) is an American composer and conductor whose music is rooted in minimalism. Among the most regularly performed composers of contemporary classical music, he is particularly noted for his operas, which are often centered around recent historical events. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Adams has received more than 20,745,776 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). John Adams is the 539th most popular composer (up from 542nd in 2019), the 2,562nd most popular biography from United States (down from 2,558th in 2019) and the 31st most popular American Composer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 21M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.28

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.22

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, John Adams ranks 539 out of 1,216. Before him are Agostino Steffani, Gabriel Pierné, Pietro Nardini, Leo Brouwer, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, and Stephen Foster. After him are Giuseppe Sarti, Louis Couperin, Helmut Lachenmann, Domenico Dragonetti, Georgy Sviridov, and George Antheil.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, John Adams ranks 152. Before him are Ben Cross, Mia Martini, Tadahiko Ueda, Olavo de Carvalho, Martin Chalfie, and Gerhard Ludwig Müller. After him are Helena Vondráčková, David Helfgott, Philippe Herreweghe, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Jerzy Stuhr, and Alan Dale.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Adams ranks 2,562 out of 18,182. Before him are William Heard Kilpatrick (1871), Ed McBain (1926), Charlie Wilson (1933), Frank Marshall (1877), Rip Torn (1931), and Stephen Foster (1826). After him are Chuck Palahniuk (1962), Janet Jackson (1966), Bob Cousy (1928), Cissy Houston (1933), Robert Hansen (1939), and Edward Herrmann (1943).

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Among COMPOSERS In United States

Among composers born in United States, John Adams ranks 31. Before him are George Crumb (1929), Bill Conti (1942), Paul Bowles (1910), James Newton Howard (1951), Danny Elfman (1953), and Stephen Foster (1826). After him are George Antheil (1900), Morton Feldman (1926), Carmine Coppola (1910), Jonathan Larson (1960), Ernest Guiraud (1837), and Basil Poledouris (1945).

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