COMPOSER

Shunsuke Kikuchi

1931 - 2021

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Shunsuke Kikuchi (菊池 俊輔, Kikuchi Shunsuke, 1 November 1931 – 24 April 2021) was a Japanese composer who was active from the early 1960s until 2017. He specialized in incidental music for media such as television and film. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shunsuke Kikuchi has received more than 224,810 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Shunsuke Kikuchi is the 682nd most popular composer (down from 650th in 2019), the 761st most popular biography from Japan (down from 712th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Japanese Composer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 220k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.27

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.23

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Shunsuke Kikuchis by language

Over the past year Shunsuke Kikuchi has had the most page views in the with 60,154 views, followed by English (28,692), and Spanish (10,148). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (82.33%), Samogitian (81.55%), and Egyptian Arabic (75.14%)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Shunsuke Kikuchi ranks 682 out of 1,451. Before him are Ferdinand David, Franchinus Gaffurius, Edmond Audran, Joseph Szigeti, Leó Weiner, and Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg. After him are Giovanni Battista Vitali, Eduard Tubin, Krzysztof Komeda, Marc'Antonio Ingegneri, Alexander Tcherepnin, and Hucbald.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Shunsuke Kikuchi ranks 187. Before him are Ola Ullsten, Rajko Kuzmanović, Rubens de Falco, Atsuko Ikeda, Ted Kotcheff, and George Maciunas. After him are Iajuddin Ahmed, Krzysztof Komeda, Fred Brooks, John Gavin, Dritëro Agolli, and George Vassiliou. Among people deceased in 2021, Shunsuke Kikuchi ranks 183. Before him are Donald Arnold, Jorge Medina, Puneeth Rajkumar, Aleksandr Privalov, Anna Chromý, and Charles Grodin. After him are Zlatko Kranjčar, Gustavo Noboa, Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, Eric Carle, Wilfried Van Moer, and Sabah Fakhri.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Shunsuke Kikuchi ranks 761 out of 6,245. Before him are Katō Yoshiaki (1563), Michihiro Ozawa (1932), Katsuko Saruhashi (1920), Ōmura Sumitada (1533), Kunimitsu Takahashi (1940), and Osachi Hamaguchi (1870). After him are Mitsuo Kamata (1937), Isao Inokuma (1938), Masao Takada (null), Tadao Kobayashi (1930), Hasegawa Tōhaku (1539), and Prince Munetaka (1242).

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Among COMPOSERS In Japan

Among composers born in Japan, Shunsuke Kikuchi ranks 5. Before him are Ryuichi Sakamoto (1952), Ichirou Mizuki (1948), Toru Takemitsu (1930), and Miki Matsubara (1959). After him are Kenji Kawai (1957), Toshi Ichiyanagi (1933), Koichi Sugiyama (1931), Koji Kondo (1961), Keiko Abe (1937), Nobuo Uematsu (1959), and Akira Ifukube (1914).

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