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Oliver Knussen

1952 - 2018

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Stuart Oliver Knussen (12 June 1952 – 8 July 2018) was a British composer of contemporary classical music and conductor. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Oliver Knussen is the 1,381st most popular composer (up from 1,393rd in 2024), the 5,865th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 5,870th in 2019) and the 94th most popular British Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Oliver Knussen ranks 1,381 out of 1,451. Before him are Stephen Warbeck, Lennox Berkeley, Thomas Adès, Raymond Scott, Alexander Goehr, and Christopher Chaplin. After him are Olga Neuwirth, Arne Nordheim, George Whitefield Chadwick, David Newman, Alan Bush, and Peter Sculthorpe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Oliver Knussen ranks 667. Before him are Ted Tally, Denís Milar, Sharda Sinha, Runa Laila, Vlado Taneski, and Robert Zubrin. After him are James Fleet, Billy Powell, Ellen McLain, Maria Damanaki, Tamás Faragó, and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. Among people deceased in 2018, Oliver Knussen ranks 538. Before him are Ken Berry, Frank Andersson, Emma Chambers, Aldo Tarlao, Roy Clark, and Frank Ramsey. After him are Ken Flach, Olivia Cole, Fazlullah, Sigi Schmid, Walter Bahr, and João W. Nery.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Oliver Knussen ranks 5,867 out of 8,785. Before him are Reg Presley (1941), Julian Lloyd Webber (1951), W. H. R. Rivers (1864), Stuart Milner-Barry (1906), Roy Evans (1948), and Cat Deeley (1976). After him are Herbert Vaughan (1832), Ralph Brown (1957), James Fleet (1952), Nick Griffin (1959), Alex Cox (1954), and Shaun Wright-Phillips (1981).

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Among COMPOSERS In United Kingdom

Among composers born in United Kingdom, Oliver Knussen ranks 94. Before him are George Fenton (1950), John Stainer (1840), Ray Noble (1903), Stephen Warbeck (1953), Lennox Berkeley (1903), and Thomas Adès (1971). After him are Alan Bush (1900), George Butterworth (1885), Elisabeth Lutyens (1906), John Murphy (1965), William Alwyn (1905), and Judith Weir (1954).

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