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Richard Rodgers

1902 - 1979

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Richard Charles Rodgers (June 28, 1902 – December 30, 1979) was an American composer who worked primarily in musical theater. With 43 Broadway musicals and over 900 songs to his credit, Rodgers was one of the most well-known American composers of the 20th century, and his compositions had a significant influence on popular music. Rodgers is known for his songwriting partnerships, first with lyricist Lorenz Hart and then with Oscar Hammerstein II. With Hart he wrote musicals throughout the 1920s and 1930s, including Pal Joey, A Connecticut Yankee, On Your Toes and Babes in Arms. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Rodgers has received more than 2,445,254 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Richard Rodgers is the 409th most popular composer (up from 462nd in 2019), the 1,909th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,195th in 2019) and the 19th most popular American Composer.

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  • 58.21

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 46

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.79

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Richard Rodgers ranks 409 out of 1,451. Before him are Yo-Yo Ma, Adriano Banchieri, Mauricio Kagel, Maria Szymanowska, Franz Schreker, and Jacques-Martin Hotteterre. After him are Luigi Dallapiccola, Stefano Landi, Ernest Bloch, Giovanni Legrenzi, Franz Schmidt, and Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Richard Rodgers ranks 75. Before him are Bruno Streckenbach, Ion Gheorghe Maurer, Demchugdongrub, Markian Popov, Maximilian, Duke of Hohenberg, and Eugen Jochum. After him are Wifredo Lam, Langston Hughes, Lyubov Orlova, Charan Singh, Alfredo Binda, and Anatole Litvak. Among people deceased in 1979, Richard Rodgers ranks 59. Before him are Alfredo Ottaviani, Nicos Poulantzas, Pier Luigi Nervi, Charles W. Morris, Nereo Rocco, and Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry. After him are Elizabeth Bishop, Konstantin Simonov, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Yukio Tsuda, Jacques Mesrine, and Louis Durey.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard Rodgers ranks 1,909 out of 20,380. Before him are Jon Kabat-Zinn (1944), Winsor McCay (1867), Jerry Stiller (1927), Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. (1915), John Dickson Carr (1906), and Johns Hopkins (1795). After him are Richard Sennett (1943), Daryl Hannah (1960), Bernard Baruch (1870), Elizabeth Bishop (1911), Lady Bird Johnson (1912), and Ben Shapiro (1984).

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Among COMPOSERS In United States

Among composers born in United States, Richard Rodgers ranks 19. Before him are Alan Silvestri (1950), Bernard Herrmann (1911), Charles Ives (1874), Elmer Bernstein (1922), Aaron Copland (1900), and Cole Porter (1891). After him are James Newton Howard (1951), Bill Conti (1942), Leroy Anderson (1908), Terry Riley (1935), John Adams (1947), and Carmine Coppola (1910).

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