COMPOSER

Masaaki Suzuki

1954 - Today

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Masaaki Suzuki (鈴木 雅明, Suzuki Masaaki, born 29 April 1954) is a Japanese organist, harpsichordist, conductor, and the founder and music director of the Bach Collegium Japan. With this ensemble he is recording the complete choral works of Johann Sebastian Bach for the Swedish label BIS Records, for which he is also recording Bach's concertos, orchestral suites, and solo works for harpsichord and organ. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Masaaki Suzuki has received more than 109,545 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Masaaki Suzuki is the 1,240th most popular composer (up from 1,247th in 2019), the 1,360th most popular biography from Japan (up from 1,393rd in 2019) and the 18th most popular Japanese Composer.

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  • 18

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  • 4.11

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  • 2.22

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Masaaki Suzuki ranks 1,240 out of 1,451Before him are Leo Ornstein, Jan A. P. Kaczmarek, Enoch Sontonga, Bronius Kutavičius, Dobri Hristov, and Rachel Portman. After him are Emīls Dārziņš, Wenzel Müller, Afrasiyab Badalbeyli, David Diamond, Junkie XL, and Leonel Power.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Masaaki Suzuki ranks 386Before him are Walter Davis, Anuradha Paudwal, Antonio Resines, Robert Van de Walle, Kiki Smith, and Ellen von Unwerth. After him are Tina Knowles, Aleksandr Aksinin, Tina Charles, Janusz Wojciechowski, Ray Parker Jr., and Silvio Micali.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Masaaki Suzuki ranks 1,360 out of 6,245Before him are Toshikatsu Matsuoka (1945), Choei Sato (1951), Yoshiko Tanaka (1956), Shinji Ono (1979), Masahiro Sakurai (1970), and Princess Tomohito of Mikasa (1955). After him are Kaz Hirai (1960), Hiroki Kosai (1933), Anri (1961), Hirofumi Nakasone (1945), Kozo Tashima (1957), and Kenji Goto (1967).

Among COMPOSERS In Japan

Among composers born in Japan, Masaaki Suzuki ranks 18Before him are Akira Ifukube (1914), Yasushi Akutagawa (1925), Shirō Sagisu (1957), Fumio Hayasaka (1914), Akira Yamaoka (1968), and Hiroyuki Sawano (1980). After him are Junichi Masuda (1968), Toshio Hosokawa (1955), Kaoru Wada (1962), Yuzo Koshiro (1967), Kazumi Totaka (1967), and Michiru Yamane (1963).