COMPOSER

Stanley Myers

1930 - 1993

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Stanley Myers (6 October 1930 – 9 November 1993) was an English composer and conductor, who scored over sixty films and television series, working closely with filmmakers Nicolas Roeg, Jerzy Skolimowski and Volker Schlöndorff. He is best known for his guitar piece "Cavatina", composed for the 1970 film The Walking Stick and later used as the theme for The Deer Hunter. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stanley Myers has received more than 299,359 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Stanley Myers is the 843rd most popular composer (up from 852nd in 2019), the 2,331st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,352nd in 2019) and the 31st most popular British Composer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 300k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.84

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.99

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.41

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Stanley Myers ranks 843 out of 1,451. Before him are Ramin Djawadi, Simon Sechter, André Caplet, André Cardinal Destouches, Edward MacDowell, and Franz Anton Hoffmeister. After him are Charles Villiers Stanford, Louis Niedermeyer, Heinrich Bach, Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský, Henri-Montan Berton, and Meredith Monk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Stanley Myers ranks 260. Before him are Dick Sargent, Richard C. Sarafian, Antonio Saura, Robert Prosky, Gianfranco Parolini, and Philip Bosco. After him are David Huddleston, Jan P. Syse, Thomas Sowell, Frank Carlucci, June Almeida, and Jesús Garay. Among people deceased in 1993, Stanley Myers ranks 124. Before him are Freya Stark, Buddhadasa, Blaže Koneski, Wang Zhen, David Koresh, and Melchior Ndadaye. After him are Cyril Cusack, Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov, Moses Gunn, Edward Bernard Raczyński, Nicanor Zabaleta, and Karl Mai.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Stanley Myers ranks 2,331 out of 8,785. Before him are Jamie Dornan (1982), Gerry Rafferty (1947), F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich (1782), Christopher Hill (1912), Lady Caroline Lamb (1785), and John Hadley (1682). After him are Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma (1924), Ephraim Chambers (1680), Joan of England, Queen of Scotland (1210), John Walker (1781), Robert Stevenson (1905), and Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton (1735).

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Among COMPOSERS In United Kingdom

Among composers born in United Kingdom, Stanley Myers ranks 31. Before him are William Boyce (1711), John Bull (1562), Arthur Sullivan (1842), Arnold Bax (1883), Frank Bridge (1879), and John Taverner (1490). After him are Charles Burney (1726), Harry Gregson-Williams (1961), John Tavener (1944), Matthew Locke (1621), John Rutter (1945), and Hamilton Harty (1879).

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