COMPOSER

Meredith Monk

1942 - Today

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Meredith Jane Monk (born November 20, 1942) is an American composer, performer, director, vocalist, filmmaker, and choreographer. From the 1960s onwards, Monk has created multi-disciplinary works which combine music, theatre, and dance, recording extensively for ECM Records. In 1991, Monk composed Atlas, an opera, commissioned and produced by the Houston Opera and the American Music Theater Festival. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Meredith Monk has received more than 532,759 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Meredith Monk is the 849th most popular composer (up from 1,003rd in 2019), the 4,121st most popular biography from United States (up from 5,110th in 2019) and the 46th most popular American Composer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 530k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.77

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Meredith Monk ranks 849 out of 1,451. Before her are Stanley Myers, Charles Villiers Stanford, Louis Niedermeyer, Heinrich Bach, Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský, and Henri-Montan Berton. After her are Marco da Gagliano, Werner Egk, Trevor Jones, Piero Piccioni, Nie Er, and Turlough O'Carolan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Meredith Monk ranks 285. Before her are Susana Vieira, Gianfranco Ravasi, Yevhen Rudakov, Hans-Rudolf Merz, Yevgeny Shaposhnikov, and Dee Dee Warwick. After her are Jeetendra, Peter Norman, Lyudmila Zhivkova, Martin Rees, Nobby Stiles, and Gunilla Bergström.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Meredith Monk ranks 4,121 out of 20,380. Before her are Rob Cohen (1949), Harry Hillman (1881), Paul Rand (1914), Paul Milgrom (1948), Dorothy Day (1897), and Sherilyn Fenn (1965). After her are Mickey Spillane (1918), Harry Carey Jr. (1921), Horace Parnell Tuttle (1837), Charles T. Kowal (1940), George C. Homans (1910), and E. G. Marshall (1914).

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Among COMPOSERS In United States

Among composers born in United States, Meredith Monk ranks 46. Before her are Dave Grusin (1934), La Monte Young (1935), Lee Konitz (1927), Thomas Newman (1955), George Crumb (1929), and Edward MacDowell (1860). After her are David Del Tredici (1937), Cathy Berberian (1925), Elliott Carter (1908), William Christie (1944), Marvin Hamlisch (1944), and Walter Piston (1894).

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