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Stephen Sondheim

1930 - 2021

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Stephen Joshua Sondheim (; March 22, 1930 – November 26, 2021) was an American composer and lyricist. Regarded as one of the most important figures in 20th-century musical theater, he is credited with reinventing the American musical. With his frequent collaborators Harold Prince and James Lapine, Sondheim's Broadway musicals tackled unexpected themes that ranged beyond the genre's traditional subjects, while addressing darker elements of the human experience. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stephen Sondheim has received more than 9,331,085 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Stephen Sondheim is the 550th most popular composer (down from 377th in 2019), the 2,551st most popular biography from United States (down from 1,809th in 2019) and the 31st most popular American Composer.

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  • 9.3M

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  • 56.11

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  • 41

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.43

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Stephen Sondheim ranks 550 out of 1,451. Before him are Johannes Ciconia, Hans Krása, Luis Bacalov, Frederick Delius, Jean-François Le Sueur, and Hermann Abendroth. After him are Johann Crüger, William Walton, Bálint Bakfark, Pierre Henry, Henri Duparc, and Stevan Mokranjac.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Stephen Sondheim ranks 145. Before him are Dündar Ali Osman, Guy Ligier, James Baker, Eugenio Castellotti, Bernard Collomb, and Tanya Savicheva. After him are Philippe Leroy, Stephen Smale, Tony Lip, Tom Wolfe, Choe Thae-bok, and Manuel Marulanda. Among people deceased in 2021, Stephen Sondheim ranks 143. Before him are Nino Castelnuovo, Yegor Ligachyov, George Segal, Sheldon Adelson, Jovan Divjak, and Dusty Hill. After him are Robert Downey Sr., Vladimir Shatalov, Ned Beatty, Borisav Jović, Kåre Willoch, and George Shultz.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Stephen Sondheim ranks 2,551 out of 20,380. Before him are Sean Young (1959), Delphine LaLaurie (1787), Richard Brautigan (1935), James L. Brooks (1940), Gloria Grahame (1923), and Edward Herrmann (1943). After him are James Remar (1953), Robert Downey Sr. (1936), John Sculley (1939), Archie Moore (1916), Donna Murphy (1959), and Sarah Wayne Callies (1977).

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Among COMPOSERS In United States

Among composers born in United States, Stephen Sondheim ranks 31. Before him are Carmine Coppola (1910), Danny Elfman (1953), Michael Kamen (1948), Paul Bowles (1910), George Antheil (1900), and Ernest Guiraud (1837). After him are Basil Poledouris (1945), Morton Feldman (1926), Stephen Foster (1826), Alfred Newman (1900), Sun Ra (1914), and Alex North (1910).

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