COMPOSER

Keith Emerson

1944 - 2016

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Keith Noel Emerson (2 November 1944 – 11 March 2016) was an English keyboardist, songwriter, composer and record producer. He played keyboards in a number of bands before finding his first commercial success with the Nice in the late 1960s. He became internationally famous for his work with the Nice, which included writing rock arrangements of classical music. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Keith Emerson has received more than 3,559,767 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Keith Emerson is the 290th most popular composer (up from 311th in 2019), the 881st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 957th in 2019) and the 7th most popular British Composer.

Keith Emerson is most famous for being the keyboardist for the progressive rock band Emerson, Lake and Palmer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.58

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 41

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.54

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.96

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Keith Emerson ranks 290 out of 1,451. Before him are Alessandro Stradella, Martin Agricola, Johann Jakob Froberger, Johann van Beethoven, Hugo Alfvén, and Friedrich Kuhlau. After him are Alberto Ginastera, Jaufre Rudel, Miklós Rózsa, Georg Böhm, Eugen d'Albert, and François-Adrien Boieldieu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Keith Emerson ranks 98. Before him are Mairead Maguire, Bernard Cornwell, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Nana Akufo-Addo, Killing of Peter Fechter, and Mordechai Spiegler. After him are Jeroen Krabbé, Sondra Locke, Ren Zhengfei, Peter Tosh, Brian Tracy, and Chico Buarque. Among people deceased in 2016, Keith Emerson ranks 74. Before him are Marvin Minsky, Walter Kohn, Chyna, Queen Anne of Romania, Thomas Luckmann, and Michel Butor. After him are Margot Honecker, Tony Burton, Thomas Schelling, Iolanda Balaș, Toots Thielemans, and Corry Brokken.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Keith Emerson ranks 881 out of 8,785. Before him are Robert Clive (1725), Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland (1915), Emily Davison (1872), Charlotte Cooper (1870), Wentworth Miller (1972), and Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk (1484). After him are Charles Spurgeon (1834), Harthacnut I of Denmark (880), Olave Baden-Powell (1889), Derek Barton (1918), Philip Noel-Baker (1889), and Rodney Robert Porter (1917).

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Among COMPOSERS In United Kingdom

Among composers born in United Kingdom, Keith Emerson ranks 7. Before him are Edward Elgar (1857), Henry Purcell (1659), Benjamin Britten (1913), John Barry (1933), Gustav Holst (1874), and William Byrd (1543). After him are Eugen d'Albert (1864), Thomas Tallis (1502), Andrew Lloyd Webber (1948), John Dunstaple (1390), Michael Nyman (1944), and Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872).

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