MUSICIAN

Stanley Sadie

1930 - 2005

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Stanley John Sadie (; 30 October 1930 – 21 March 2005) was a British musicologist, music critic, and editor. He was editor of the sixth edition of the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1980), which was published as the first edition of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stanley Sadie has received more than 150,968 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Stanley Sadie is the 1,898th most popular musician (up from 1,940th in 2019), the 4,827th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,850th in 2019) and the 311th most popular British Musician.

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  • 150k

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  • 44.04

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.78

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  • 2.22

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Stanley Sadie ranks 1,898 out of 3,175Before him are Eddie Hazel, Joe Lovano, Rick J. Jordan, Wes Borland, Ed King, and Jimmy Van Heusen. After him are Albert Ammons, Jimmie Vaughan, Mr. Oizo, Chick Webb, Brad Wilk, and Igor Presnyakov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Stanley Sadie ranks 526Before him are Nicole Marthe Le Douarin, Bertha Brouwer, Mike Sparken, Blue Mitchell, Edward Seaga, and José Jiménez Lozano. After him are Eladio Herrera, Norman Johnson, Violetta Ferrari, Edward Givens, Wojciech Zabłocki, and Robert H. MacArthur. Among people deceased in 2005, Stanley Sadie ranks 310Before him are Carl Forssell, Enric Gensana, Luis Taruc, Arnold Denker, Milena Hübschmannová, and Ihor Rybak. After him are Leonid Shamkovich, Percy Heath, Lee Eun-ju, Wendie Jo Sperber, Juan Pedevilla, and Ismail Merchant.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Stanley Sadie ranks 4,827 out of 8,785Before him are Francis Chichester (1901), Richard Thompson (1949), Naomi Scott (1993), John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun (1860), Laura Haddock (1985), and Daniel Harding (1975). After him are Graham Poll (1963), Eric Dier (1994), William T. Stearn (1911), Hubert Gough (1870), Geoffrey Hughes (1944), and Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1886).

Among MUSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among musicians born in United Kingdom, Stanley Sadie ranks 311Before him are Pete Quaife (1943), Jim Lea (1949), Glyn Johns (1942), Lionel Tertis (1876), Ed O'Brien (1968), and Steve Rothery (1959). After him are Neil Innes (1944), Rupert Holmes (1947), Guy Berryman (1978), Richard Ashcroft (1971), The Proclaimers (1962), and Leeroy Thornhill (1968).