COMPOSER

Vincent Persichetti

1915 - 1987

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Vincent Ludwig Persichetti (June 6, 1915 – August 14, 1987) was an American composer, teacher, and pianist. An important musical educator and writer, he was known for his integration of various new ideas in musical composition into his own work and teaching, as well as for training many noted composers in composition at the Juilliard School. His students at Juilliard included Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Larry Thomas Bell, Bruce Adolphe, Louis Calabro, Moshe Cotel, Michael Jeffrey Shapiro, Laurie Spiegel, Kenneth Fuchs, Richard Danielpour, Lawrence Dillon, Peter Schickele, Lowell Liebermann, Robert Witt, Elena Ruehr, William Schimmel, Leonardo Balada, Gitta Steiner, Hank Beebe, Roland Wiggins, Thomas Pasatieri, Randell Croley and Leo Brouwer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vincent Persichetti has received more than 166,582 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Vincent Persichetti is the 1,329th most popular composer (down from 1,248th in 2019), the 9,811th most popular biography from United States (down from 9,059th in 2019) and the 107th most popular American Composer.

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  • 170k

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  • 43.88

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.48

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.68

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Vincent Persichetti ranks 1,329 out of 1,451. Before him are Christian Wolff, Erkki-Sven Tüür, Vicente Amigo, Horatio Parker, Henry Lawes, and Tibor Serly. After him are Christopher Young, Detto Mariano, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, John Debney, Alexander Goehr, and John Stanley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Vincent Persichetti ranks 257. Before him are Khushwant Singh, Dan Dailey, Brian Shawe-Taylor, Siegfried Purner, Dorothy Poynton-Hill, and Ödön Gróf. After him are Robert Lockwood Jr., Masanori Yusa, Joe Mantell, Junior Durkin, William Hopper, and Magda Gabor. Among people deceased in 1987, Vincent Persichetti ranks 233. Before him are Clementina de Jesus, Andrei Bărbulescu, Carlos Ulrrico Cesco, Pál Gábor, Ernő Goldfinger, and József Kovács. After him are Stanislav Lusk, Håkan Malmrot, Heinz Vollmar, Raya Dunayevskaya, George Gulack, and Joan Greenwood.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Vincent Persichetti ranks 9,811 out of 20,380. Before him are Sherry Turkle (1948), Michael Horse (1949), Julianne Nicholson (1971), William Kircher (1958), Jacob Abbott (1803), and Brad Delp (1951). After him are John Kasich (1952), Artis Gilmore (1949), Chris Klein (1979), Amy Sedaris (1961), Jack Casady (1944), and Sammy Cahn (1913).

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Among COMPOSERS In United States

Among composers born in United States, Vincent Persichetti ranks 107. Before him are James Scott (1885), Harry Warren (1893), Brian Tyler (1972), Ned Rorem (1923), Joel Goldsmith (1957), and Horatio Parker (1863). After him are Christopher Young (1958), John Debney (1956), Earl Scruggs (1924), Bruce Broughton (1945), Mark Mancina (1957), and Jerry Bock (1928).

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