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Robert Russell Bennett

1894 - 1981

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Robert Russell Bennett (June 15, 1894 – August 18, 1981) was an American composer and arranger, best known for his orchestration of many well-known Broadway and Hollywood musicals by other composers such as Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, and Richard Rodgers. In 1957 and 2008, Bennett received special Tony Awards recognizing his orchestrations for Broadway shows. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Russell Bennett has received more than 152,374 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Robert Russell Bennett is the 1,349th most popular composer (down from 1,289th in 2019), the 10,298th most popular biography from United States (up from 10,804th in 2019) and the 116th most popular American Composer.

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  • 150k

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  • 43.25

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.27

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.89

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Robert Russell Bennett ranks 1,349 out of 1,451. Before her are Jerry Bock, Eubie Blake, David Rose, Lowell Mason, Anne Dudley, and Qigang Chen. After her are George Butterworth, Roy Harris, Klaus Egge, George Alexander Macfarren, Jerry Herman, and Lennox Berkeley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Robert Russell Bennett ranks 250. Before her are Belle Moore, Rudolf Geiger, Mikhail Suslin, Bo Ekelund, Søren Petersen, and André Jousseaume. After her are Frederick E. Morgan, James Anderson, Margaret Molesworth, Arthur Fiedler, Earl Eby, and Alfred Probst. Among people deceased in 1981, Robert Russell Bennett ranks 263. Before her are Betty McKinnon, Zoltán Huszárik, Boris Sagal, Adele Astaire, Alberto Héber Usher, and Nikolai Tishchenko. After her are Eric Williams, Margaret Lindsay, David Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter, Louis Kuehn, Sam Jones, and Pierre Korb.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Russell Bennett ranks 10,298 out of 20,380. Before her are Scott Kelly (1964), Corin Nemec (1971), James Gentle (1904), Billy Mills (1938), Woody Shaw (1944), and Claudio Reyna (1973). After her are Anne Sewell Young (1871), Rowland V. Lee (1891), Happy Chandler (1898), Leatrice Joy (1893), Jenny Slate (1982), and Adina Porter (1971).

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Among COMPOSERS In United States

Among composers born in United States, Robert Russell Bennett ranks 116. Before her are Earl Scruggs (1924), Bruce Broughton (1945), Mark Mancina (1957), Jerry Bock (1928), Eubie Blake (2), and Lowell Mason (1792). After her are Roy Harris (1898), Jerry Herman (1931), Shirley Walker (1945), Stephen Schwartz (1948), Angus MacLise (1938), and Lou Harrison (1917).

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