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Koichi Sugiyama

1931 - 2021

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Koichi Sugiyama (すぎやま こういち, Sugiyama Kōichi, April 11, 1931 – September 30, 2021) was a Japanese composer, conductor, and orchestrator. He was best known for composing the music for the Dragon Quest franchise, along with several other video games, anime, film, television shows, and pop songs. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Koichi Sugiyama has received more than 529,060 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Koichi Sugiyama is the 414th most popular composer (up from 803rd in 2019), the 407th most popular biography from Japan (up from 846th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Japanese Composer.

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  • 20

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  • 1.73

    Effective Languages (L*)

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Koichi Sugiyama ranks 414 out of 1,216. Before him are Johann van Beethoven, Maria Szymanowska, Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Joaquín Turina, Giovanni Pacini, and Oscar Straus. After him are Emilio de' Cavalieri, Hugo Riemann, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Remo Giazotto, Albert Lortzing, and Princess Cecilia of Sweden.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Koichi Sugiyama ranks 100. Before him are Angie Dickinson, Mike Nichols, Yao Wenyuan, Nikolai Chernykh, Vujadin Boškov, and Barbara Eden. After him are Ermanno Olmi, Telê Santana, Haya Harareet, Gunnel Lindblom, Sri Chinmoy, and Luís Cabral. Among people deceased in 2021, Koichi Sugiyama ranks 136. Before him are Libuše Šafránková, Horst Eckel, Gottfried Böhm, Osamu Yamaji, Lucía Hiriart, and Humberto Maturana. After him are Matthew Festing, Haya Harareet, Bob Dole, Renée Simonot, Gunnel Lindblom, and Michel Fourniret.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Koichi Sugiyama ranks 407 out of 6,048. Before him are Emperor Konoe (1139), Shizo Kanakuri (1891), Emperor Chūkyō (1218), Emperor Go-Fukakusa (1243), Kinjiro Shimizu (null), and Shumpei Inoue (null). After him are Masuzo Madono (null), Michiyo Taki (null), Nagayasu Honda (null), Ryōji Noyori (1938), Enomoto Takeaki (1836), and Takeo Kurita (1889).

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Among COMPOSERS In Japan

Among composers born in Japan, Koichi Sugiyama ranks 3. Before him are Ryuichi Sakamoto (1952) and Toru Takemitsu (1930). After him are Ichirou Mizuki (1948), Miki Matsubara (1959), Shunsuke Kikuchi (1931), Keiko Abe (1937), Nobuo Uematsu (1959), Kenji Kawai (1957), Akira Ifukube (1914), Toshi Ichiyanagi (1933), and Yasushi Akutagawa (1925).

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