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Toshio Hosokawa

1955 - Today

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Toshio Hosokawa (細川 俊夫, Hosokawa Toshio, born 23 October 1955) is a Japanese composer of contemporary classical music. He studied in Germany but returned to Japan, finding a personal style inspired by classical Japanese music and culture. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Toshio Hosokawa has received more than 88,583 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Toshio Hosokawa is the 1,275th most popular composer (down from 1,235th in 2019), the 1,453rd most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,358th in 2019) and the 20th most popular Japanese Composer.

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  • 89k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.80

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Toshio Hosokawa ranks 1,275 out of 1,451. Before him are Paul Le Flem, Paul Williams, Lukas Foss, Victor Herbert, Geirr Tveitt, and Yasuharu Takanashi. After him are Lepo Sumera, Boris Tishchenko, Federico Chueca, Gavin Bryars, Vincent Youmans, and Morten Lauridsen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Toshio Hosokawa ranks 394. Before him are Alfredo Castro, Marcelo Trobbiani, Reinhold Mitterlehner, Taco, Uwe Reinders, and Edmund Ho. After him are Agostino Di Bartolomei, Matthias Herget, Michael Steele, Nestor Serrano, Nicolas Hulot, and Muriel Robin.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Toshio Hosokawa ranks 1,453 out of 6,245. Before him are Daisuke Ono (1978), Midori Ito (1969), Masaji Kiyokawa (1913), Nanako Matsushima (1973), Yasutomi Nishizuka (1932), and Yukito Kishiro (1967). After him are Kunio Hatoyama (1948), Isamu Sonoda (1946), Mitsuru Komaeda (1950), Ryusuke Hamaguchi (1978), Tomio Okamura (1972), and Shinichi Mochizuki (1969).

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Among COMPOSERS In Japan

Among composers born in Japan, Toshio Hosokawa ranks 20. Before him are Shirō Sagisu (1957), Fumio Hayasaka (1914), Akira Yamaoka (1968), Hiroyuki Sawano (1980), Masaaki Suzuki (1954), and Junichi Masuda (1968). After him are Kaoru Wada (1962), Yuzo Koshiro (1967), Kazumi Totaka (1967), Michiru Yamane (1963), Hitoshi Sakimoto (1969), and Shoji Meguro (1971).

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