1925 - 2016
Pierre Louis Joseph Boulez (French: [pjɛʁ lwi ʒozεf bulɛz]; 26 March 1925 – 5 January 2016) was a French composer, conductor and writer, and the founder of several musical institutions. He was one of the dominant figures of post-war Western classical music. Born in Montbrison in the Loire department of France, the son of an engineer, Boulez studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Olivier Messiaen, and privately with Andrée Vaurabourg and René Leibowitz. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pierre Boulez has received more than 1,088,495 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Pierre Boulez is the 137th most popular composer (down from 127th in 2019), the 606th most popular biography from France (down from 517th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular French Composer.
Pierre Boulez is a French composer and conductor who was one of the most influential composers of the 20th century. He is most famous for his work as a conductor, but he also composed many works for orchestra, chorus, and solo instruments.
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Among composers, Pierre Boulez ranks 137 out of 1,216. Before him are Heitor Villa-Lobos, Maurice Jarre, Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, Iannis Xenakis, César Cui, and Emmerich Kálmán. After him are Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, Michel Legrand, Léonin, Fanny Mendelssohn, Tomás Luis de Victoria, and Gregorio Allegri.
1887 - 1959
HPI: 66.43
Rank: 131
1924 - 2009
HPI: 66.40
Rank: 132
1865 - 1950
HPI: 66.39
Rank: 133
1922 - 2001
HPI: 66.27
Rank: 134
1835 - 1918
HPI: 66.25
Rank: 135
1882 - 1953
HPI: 66.20
Rank: 136
1925 - 2016
HPI: 66.17
Rank: 137
1732 - 1795
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 138
1932 - 2019
HPI: 66.02
Rank: 139
1135 - 1201
HPI: 65.94
Rank: 140
1805 - 1847
HPI: 65.93
Rank: 141
1548 - 1611
HPI: 65.90
Rank: 142
1582 - 1652
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 143
Among people born in 1925, Pierre Boulez ranks 28. Before him are Peter Sellers, Rock Hudson, Giorgio Napolitano, Frantz Fanon, Angela Lansbury, and Michel Piccoli. After him are Maya Plisetskaya, Robert Edwards, Douglas Engelbart, Ananda Mahidol, Paul Mauriat, and Nílton Santos. Among people deceased in 2016, Pierre Boulez ranks 28. Before him are Jerome Bruner, João Havelange, Alvin Toffler, Elie Wiesel, Prince, and Harper Lee. After him are John Glenn, Andrzej Żuławski, Carrie Fisher, Nancy Reagan, Věra Čáslavská, and Bernardo Provenzano.
1925 - 1980
HPI: 68.44
Rank: 22
1925 - 1985
HPI: 68.31
Rank: 23
1925 - Present
HPI: 67.81
Rank: 24
1925 - 1961
HPI: 67.36
Rank: 25
1925 - Present
HPI: 66.60
Rank: 26
1925 - 2020
HPI: 66.23
Rank: 27
1925 - 2016
HPI: 66.17
Rank: 28
1925 - 2015
HPI: 65.71
Rank: 29
1925 - 2013
HPI: 65.57
Rank: 30
1925 - 2013
HPI: 65.53
Rank: 31
1925 - 1946
HPI: 65.47
Rank: 32
1925 - 2006
HPI: 65.36
Rank: 33
1925 - 2013
HPI: 65.21
Rank: 34
1915 - 2016
HPI: 68.13
Rank: 22
1916 - 2016
HPI: 68.08
Rank: 23
1928 - 2016
HPI: 67.88
Rank: 24
1928 - 2016
HPI: 66.64
Rank: 25
1958 - 2016
HPI: 66.59
Rank: 26
1926 - 2016
HPI: 66.19
Rank: 27
1925 - 2016
HPI: 66.17
Rank: 28
1921 - 2016
HPI: 65.44
Rank: 29
1940 - 2016
HPI: 65.36
Rank: 30
1956 - 2016
HPI: 64.85
Rank: 31
1921 - 2016
HPI: 64.71
Rank: 32
1942 - 2016
HPI: 64.23
Rank: 33
1933 - 2016
HPI: 64.14
Rank: 34
Among people born in France, Pierre Boulez ranks 606 out of 6,011. Before him are Adrien-Marie Legendre (1752), Pasquale Paoli (1725), Guy Debord (1931), Michel Piccoli (1925), François Fénelon (1651), and Henri Barbusse (1873). After him are Marie of Anjou (1404), Albert Uderzo (1927), Isabelle Adjani (1955), Pierre Bonnard (1867), Charles, Duke of Vendôme (1489), and Francis Picabia (1879).
1752 - 1833
HPI: 66.27
Rank: 600
1725 - 1807
HPI: 66.27
Rank: 601
1931 - 1994
HPI: 66.23
Rank: 602
1925 - 2020
HPI: 66.23
Rank: 603
1651 - 1715
HPI: 66.22
Rank: 604
1873 - 1935
HPI: 66.21
Rank: 605
1925 - 2016
HPI: 66.17
Rank: 606
1404 - 1463
HPI: 66.15
Rank: 607
1927 - 2020
HPI: 66.14
Rank: 608
1955 - Present
HPI: 66.13
Rank: 609
1867 - 1947
HPI: 66.10
Rank: 610
1489 - 1537
HPI: 66.09
Rank: 611
1879 - 1953
HPI: 66.09
Rank: 612
Among composers born in France, Pierre Boulez ranks 23. Before him are Francis Poulenc (1899), Adolphe Adam (1803), Arthur Honegger (1892), Pérotin (1160), Paul Dukas (1865), and Maurice Jarre (1924). After him are Michel Legrand (1932), Léonin (1135), Daniel Auber (1782), Darius Milhaud (1892), Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (1760), and Édouard Lalo (1823).
1899 - 1963
HPI: 68.38
Rank: 17
1803 - 1856
HPI: 68.06
Rank: 18
1892 - 1955
HPI: 67.58
Rank: 19
1160 - 1230
HPI: 66.99
Rank: 20
1865 - 1935
HPI: 66.64
Rank: 21
1924 - 2009
HPI: 66.40
Rank: 22
1925 - 2016
HPI: 66.17
Rank: 23
1932 - 2019
HPI: 66.02
Rank: 24
1135 - 1201
HPI: 65.94
Rank: 25
1782 - 1871
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 26
1892 - 1974
HPI: 65.57
Rank: 27
1760 - 1836
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 28
1823 - 1892
HPI: 65.26
Rank: 29