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Pauline Oliveros

1932 - 2016

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Pauline Oliveros (May 30, 1932 – November 24, 2016) was an American composer, accordionist and a central figure in the development of post-war experimental and electronic music. She was a founding member of the San Francisco Tape Music Center in the 1960s, and served as its director. She taught music at Mills College, the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pauline Oliveros has received more than 473,177 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Pauline Oliveros is the 1,201st most popular composer (down from 1,114th in 2019), the 7,285th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,311th in 2019) and the 76th most popular American Composer.

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.38

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.83

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Pauline Oliveros ranks 1,201 out of 1,451. Before her are Harrison Birtwistle, Mychael Danna, Cláudio Santoro, Luís de Freitas Branco, Marco Beltrami, and Eino Tamberg. After her are Akira Yamaoka, Johanna Kinkel, Craig Armstrong, André Messager, Granville Bantock, and Mark Snow.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Pauline Oliveros ranks 357. Before her are Shankha Ghosh, Lewis Binford, Nino Defilippis, Maya Kristalinskaya, Gerald Carr, and Paul R. Ehrlich. After her are Khalil Taha, Julia Gutiérrez Caba, Kurt Oppelt, Peter Blake, Eusébio Scheid, and Oliver Nelson. Among people deceased in 2016, Pauline Oliveros ranks 361. Before her are Bobby Vee, Hermann Kant, Mark Dvoretsky, Alfred G. Knudson, Ottavio Bugatti, and Ursula Franklin. After her are Kurt Svensson, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Henning Enoksen, Marni Nixon, Vera Henriksen, and Anthony D. Smith.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Pauline Oliveros ranks 7,285 out of 20,380. Before her are James Hall (1811), Maude Fealy (1883), Bill Maher (1956), James Algar (1912), Frank Norris (1870), and Ricardo Antonio Chavira (1971). After her are Larry Graham (1946), Malcolm Browne (1931), Michael Stonebraker (1943), Joel Chandler Harris (1848), Khloé Kardashian (1984), and Edward Everett Horton (1886).

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Among COMPOSERS In United States

Among composers born in United States, Pauline Oliveros ranks 76. Before her are John Corigliano (1938), Conlon Nancarrow (1912), William Schuman (1910), Alf Clausen (1941), Brad Fiedel (1951), and Marco Beltrami (1966). After her are Mark Snow (1946), Leonard Slatkin (1944), William Bolcom (1938), Peter Schickele (1935), Alan Hovhaness (1911), and George Bruns (1914).

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