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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 81,606 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Toshio Hosokawa is the 1,237th most popular composer, the 1,361st most popular biography from Japan and the 18th most popular Japanese Composer.

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  • 82k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 43.26

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.55

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.68

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Toshio Hosokawa ranks 1,237 out of 1,216Before him are Geirr Tveitt, Lowell Mason, Shivkumar Sharma, Alexandre Levy, Jocelyn Pook, and Christopher Young. After him are Georg Friedrich Haas, David Raksin, Mark Mancina, Vincent Youmans, Vicente Amigo, and John Wilbye.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Toshio Hosokawa ranks 356Before him are Batista, Pascal Dusapin, Güler Sabancı, Dennis Christopher, Pavel Cebanu, and Butch Vig. After him are Apisai Ielemia, Annette Schavan, Ole von Beust, Matthias Behr, Ken Salazar, and Ethan Phillips.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Toshio Hosokawa ranks 1,361 out of 6,048Before him are Yoshinobu Miyake (1939), Kenta Hasegawa (1965), Noriko Hidaka (1962), Hiromasa Yonebayashi (1973), Nobuko Jashima (1959), and Kouta Hirano (1973). After him are Kono Yasui (1880), Tooru Fujisawa (1967), Nana Mizuki (1980), Eiji Aonuma (1963), Yukari Tamura (1978), and Haruhisa Hasegawa (1957).

Among COMPOSERS In Japan

Among composers born in Japan, Toshio Hosokawa ranks 18Before him are Yasushi Akutagawa (1925), Fumio Hayasaka (1914), Koji Kondo (1961), Akira Yamaoka (1968), Hiroyuki Sawano (1980), and Junichi Masuda (1968). After him are Masaaki Suzuki (1954), Yuzo Koshiro (1967), Kazumi Totaka (1967), and Hitoshi Sakimoto (1969).