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Paul Bowles

1910 - 1999

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Paul Frederic Bowles (; December 30, 1910 – November 18, 1999) was an American expatriate composer, author, and translator. He became associated with the Moroccan city of Tangier, where he settled in 1947 and lived for 52 years to the end of his life. Following a cultured middle-class upbringing in New York City, during which he displayed a talent for music and writing, Bowles pursued his education at the University of Virginia before making several trips to Paris in the 1930s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Bowles has received more than 874,000 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Paul Bowles is the 534th most popular composer (down from 472nd in 2019), the 2,482nd most popular biography from United States (down from 2,223rd in 2019) and the 28th most popular American Composer.

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  • 870k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.32

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.80

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Paul Bowles ranks 534 out of 1,451. Before him are Boris Lyatoshinsky, Michael Kamen, Ivan Zajc, François-Joseph Fétis, Edgard Varèse, and Luigi Rossi. After him are Louis Couperin, George Antheil, Vicente Martín y Soler, Manuel Ponce, Maxim Berezovsky, and Ernest Guiraud.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Paul Bowles ranks 96. Before him are Trygve Bratteli, J. Allen Hynek, Carmine Coppola, Viktors Arājs, Joan Bennett, and Sylvester Stadler. After him are Yusof Ishak, Julien Gracq, Enrique Guaita, Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli, Ngô Đình Nhu, and Nouhak Phoumsavanh. Among people deceased in 1999, Paul Bowles ranks 72. Before him are Yuri Knorozov, Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, Betty Robinson, Pierre Clémenti, DeForest Kelley, and Maurice Couve de Murville. After him are Ri Jong-ok, Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, András Hegedüs, Viacheslav Chornovil, Phaedon Gizikis, and Giant Baba.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Paul Bowles ranks 2,482 out of 20,380. Before him are James Whitmore (1921), Geraldine Page (1924), Jerry Orbach (1935), Jamie Foxx (1967), Frank Grillo (1965), and Terry Funk (1944). After him are David Lane (1938), Jeff Daniels (1955), Aaron Eckhart (1968), Jesse Livermore (1877), George Antheil (1900), and Julia Ann (1969).

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Among COMPOSERS In United States

Among composers born in United States, Paul Bowles ranks 28. Before him are Leroy Anderson (1908), Terry Riley (1935), John Adams (1947), Carmine Coppola (1910), Danny Elfman (1953), and Michael Kamen (1948). After him are George Antheil (1900), Ernest Guiraud (1837), Stephen Sondheim (1930), Basil Poledouris (1945), Morton Feldman (1926), and Stephen Foster (1826).

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