COMPOSER

Roger Sessions

1896 - 1985

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Roger Huntington Sessions (December 28, 1896 – March 16, 1985) was an American composer, teacher, and writer on music. He had initially started his career writing in a neoclassical style, but gradually moved further towards more complex harmonies and postromanticism, and finally the twelve-tone serialism of the Second Viennese School. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Roger Sessions has received more than 137,921 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Roger Sessions is the 1,126th most popular composer (down from 1,062nd in 2019), the 6,327th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,787th in 2019) and the 64th most popular American Composer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 140k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.50

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.73

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.60

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Roger Sessions ranks 1,126 out of 1,451. Before him are William Lawes, Jean Barraqué, Charles Avison, Morton Gould, Einar Englund, and Michael Tippett. After him are Walter Braunfels, Henry Bishop, Władysław Żeleński, Clint Mansell, Vagn Holmboe, and Hans Huber.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Roger Sessions ranks 190. Before him are Frederick Browning, Marguerite Laugier, Frank Loomis, Mordecai Ardon, Kostas Karyotakis, and Miles Dempsey. After him are Nikolai Tikhonov, Louis Bromfield, Gerhard Fieseler, Barbara La Marr, Constantin Rădulescu, and Ivan Merz. Among people deceased in 1985, Roger Sessions ranks 173. Before him are Nicolas Hoydonckx, Natalio Perinetti, Carlos Spadaro, Matt Monro, Forbes Burnham, and Taylor Caldwell. After him are Yrjö Nikkanen, Masten Gregory, Olav Sunde, George Murdock, Julie Vlasto, and George London.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Roger Sessions ranks 6,327 out of 20,380. Before him are Frank Irons (1886), Anne Jackson (1925), Gary Gilmore (1940), Lee Barnes (1906), Cornelius Warmerdam (1915), and Anna Kendrick (1985). After him are Preston Tucker (1903), Stephen Hopkins (1707), Ted Schroeder (1921), Charles Hallahan (1943), Carl Scarborough (1914), and Richard Portnow (1947).

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Among COMPOSERS In United States

Among composers born in United States, Roger Sessions ranks 64. Before him are Leonard Rosenman (1924), Carter Burwell (1954), Raymond Scott (1908), W. C. Handy (1873), Harry Partch (1901), and Morton Gould (1913). After him are Frank Churchill (1901), Gunther Schuller (1925), Leigh Harline (1907), Paul Whiteman (1890), Jonathan Larson (1960), and John Corigliano (1938).

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