COMPOSER

Lukas Foss

1922 - 2009

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Lukas Foss (August 15, 1922 – February 1, 2009) was a German-American composer, pianist, and conductor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lukas Foss has received more than 182,450 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Lukas Foss is the 1,271st most popular composer (down from 1,134th in 2019), the 5,079th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,130th in 2019) and the 172nd most popular German Composer.

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  • 180k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.56

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.09

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Lukas Foss ranks 1,271 out of 1,451Before him are Virgil Thomson, John Ireland, Fartein Valen, Thomas Weelkes, Paul Le Flem, and Paul Williams. After him are Victor Herbert, Geirr Tveitt, Yasuharu Takanashi, Toshio Hosokawa, Lepo Sumera, and Boris Tishchenko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Lukas Foss ranks 357Before him are Irina Antonova, Herbert MacKay-Fraser, Umberto Betti, Georgy Adelson-Velsky, Melvin Laird, and Gustaf Jansson. After him are Rudolf Haag, Francisco Rodríguez Adrados, Jim Pollard, Milton H. Greene, Don Patinkin, and Ray Anthony. Among people deceased in 2009, Lukas Foss ranks 294Before him are Stanley Jaki, Umberto Betti, Frankie Manning, Feroz Khan, William Alston, and Yevgeny Vesnik. After him are Igor Starygin, Said Seyam, Teddy Mayer, I. J. Good, Jacques Sylla, and Jacques Baratier.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Lukas Foss ranks 5,079 out of 7,253Before him are Walther von Dyck (1856), Dieter Eilts (1964), Christian Gottfried Körner (1756), Hans Eichel (1941), Konrad Weise (1951), and Marcel Schmelzer (1988). After him are Carl Ludwig Christian Rümker (1788), Uli Kusch (1967), Martin Kippenberger (1953), Jürgen Sundermann (1940), Bernhard Minetti (1905), and Wolfgang Hohlbein (1953).

Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Lukas Foss ranks 172Before him are Ludwig Abeille (1761), Boris Papandopulo (1906), Walter Braunfels (1882), Oskar Sala (1910), Melchior Vulpius (1570), and Johanna Kinkel (1810). After him are Kurt Thomas (1904), Udo Zimmermann (1943), Hauschka (1966), Alexander Goehr (1932), Samuel Adler (1928), and Ludger Stühlmeyer (1961).