New games! PlayTrivia andBirthle.

COMPOSER

John Tavener

1944 - 2013

Photo of John Tavener

Icon of person John Tavener

Sir John Kenneth Tavener (28 January 1944 – 12 November 2013) was an English composer, known for his extensive output of choral religious works. Among his best known works are The Lamb (1982), The Protecting Veil (1988), and Song for Athene (1993). Tavener first came to prominence with his cantata The Whale, premiered in 1968. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Tavener has received more than 538,296 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia. John Tavener is the 915th most popular composer (down from 836th in 2019), the 2,521st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,334th in 2019) and the 34th most popular British Composer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 540k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.40

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.99

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of John Taveners by language


Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, John Tavener ranks 915 out of 1,216Before him are Slavko Avsenik, Francesco Araja, Gian Carlo Menotti, Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, Tigran Chukhajian, and Arnold Bax. After him are Egidio Duni, Ramin Djawadi, Attilio Ariosti, Matthew Locke, Leopold Hofmann, and Juhan Aavik.

Most Popular Composers in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, John Tavener ranks 306Before him are Oleksandr Moroz, Chung Hong-won, Robert Mueller, Terry Funk, Vlastimil Hort, and Orhan Gencebay. After him are Günter Verheugen, Enrique Barón Crespo, Nikolai Karachentsov, Teri Garr, Ahmed Chalabi, and František Pospíšil. Among people deceased in 2013, John Tavener ranks 210Before him are Domenico Bartolucci, Nílton de Sordi, Ignacio Eizaguirre, Ed Koch, Hans Hass, and Jetty Paerl. After him are Vincenzo Cerami, Arik Einstein, Franca Rame, Wadih El Safi, Tommy Morrison, and Mirko Kovač.

Others Born in 1944

Go to all Rankings

Others Deceased in 2013

Go to all Rankings

In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Tavener ranks 2,521 out of 7,765Before him are Jodie Whittaker (1982), Penelope Fitzgerald (1916), Morris Travers (1872), James Herbert Brennan (1940), Una Stubbs (1937), and Arnold Bax (1883). After him are Jackie Oliver (1942), Mel Collins (1947), Martin Amis (1949), William Turner (1510), Israel Zangwill (1864), and Stuart Wilson (1946).

Among COMPOSERS In United Kingdom

Among composers born in United Kingdom, John Tavener ranks 34Before him are John Bull (1562), Frank Bridge (1879), Rebecca Clarke (1886), Charles Burney (1726), Stanley Myers (1930), and Arnold Bax (1883). After him are Matthew Locke (1621), Christopher Hogwood (1941), Richard Addinsell (1904), Patrick Doyle (1953), Harry Gregson-Williams (1961), and John Rutter (1945).

Twitter Activity