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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 439,847 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Pauline Oliveros is the 1,116th most popular composer (down from 1,060th in 2019), the 6,324th most popular biography from United States (up from 6,386th in 2019) and the 65th most popular American Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Pauline Oliveros ranks 1,116 out of 1,216Before her are Victor Massé, Conlon Nancarrow, Dario Marianelli, Ferde Grofé, Nicolas Slonimsky, and Jean-Joseph Mouret. After her are Gavin Bryars, Artur Lemba, Vano Muradeli, François Sudre, Gunther Schuller, and Mikhail Gnessin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Pauline Oliveros ranks 297Before her are Vladimir Yengibaryan, Robert B. Parker, Marc Fumaroli, Casey Kasem, Jay Miner, and Monte Hellman. After her are Soon-Tek Oh, Jacques Roubaud, Antti Hyvärinen, Michel Leblond, Ugo Mifsud Bonnici, and Irma Johansson. Among people deceased in 2016, Pauline Oliveros ranks 298Before her are Pierre Tchernia, Ruth Leuwerik, Robert Fano, Lutz D. Schmadel, Jiří Tichý, and Rita Renoir. After her are Abu Ali al-Anbari, Alfred G. Knudson, Anatoli Ilyin, Vladica Kovačević, Michel Déon, and Herschell Gordon Lewis.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Pauline Oliveros ranks 6,324 out of 18,182Before her are Rick Yune (1971), Gates McFadden (1949), Laurance Rockefeller (1910), Mike Starr (1950), William Castle (1914), and Jack Colvin (1934). After her are Joseph Paul Franklin (1950), Monique Alexander (1982), Anna Schwartz (1915), Jackie Joyner-Kersee (1962), Kay Sage (1898), and Trip Hawkins (1953).

Among COMPOSERS In United States

Among composers born in United States, Pauline Oliveros ranks 65Before her are Roger Sessions (1896), William Christie (1944), Peter H. Gilmore (1958), Carter Burwell (1954), Conlon Nancarrow (1912), and Ferde Grofé (1892). After her are Gunther Schuller (1925), Kevin MacLeod (1972), Glenn Branca (1948), Elliot Goldenthal (1954), John Corigliano (1938), and Leonard Rosenman (1924).