COMPOSER

Vincent Youmans

1898 - 1946

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Vincent Millie Youmans (September 27, 1898 – April 5, 1946) was an American Broadway composer and producer. A leading Broadway composer of his day, Youmans collaborated with virtually all the greatest lyricists on Broadway: Ira Gershwin, Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein II, Irving Caesar, Anne Caldwell, Leo Robin, Howard Dietz, Clifford Grey, Billy Rose, Edward Eliscu, Edward Heyman, Harold Adamson, Buddy DeSylva and Gus Kahn. Youmans' early songs are remarkable for their economy of melodic material: two-, three- or four-note phrases are constantly repeated and varied by subtle harmonic or rhythmic changes. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vincent Youmans has received more than 192,657 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Vincent Youmans is the 1,280th most popular composer (down from 1,239th in 2019), the 8,740th most popular biography from United States (up from 8,902nd in 2019) and the 93rd most popular American Composer.

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  • 190k

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  • 52.65

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.32

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.78

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Vincent Youmans ranks 1,280 out of 1,451. Before him are Yasuharu Takanashi, Toshio Hosokawa, Lepo Sumera, Boris Tishchenko, Federico Chueca, and Gavin Bryars. After him are Morten Lauridsen, Necil Kazım Akses, Pascal Dusapin, Florence Price, Monty Norman, and Harald Kloser.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Vincent Youmans ranks 260. Before him are Eugène Dabit, Valentín Paz-Andrade, Cesare Merzagora, H. A. Rey, Édouard Candeveau, and Chesty Puller. After him are Nils Engdahl, Yun Chi-young, Lee Garmes, Miguel Murillo, Jadwiga Smosarska, and Eleanor Boardman. Among people deceased in 1946, Vincent Youmans ranks 207. Before him are Hendrik Adamson, Slim Summerville, Arthur Dove, Boris Lisunov, Mamie Smith, and Edwin Mills. After him are Ivan Moskvin, James Cecil Parke, Eduard Bass, Paul Nash, João Sassetti, and Booth Tarkington.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Vincent Youmans ranks 8,740 out of 20,380. Before him are Anne Gwynne (1918), Nunnally Johnson (1897), John Aylward (1946), James Parrott (1897), Hamilton Fish (1808), and John Adair (1757). After him are Kent Beck (1961), Lloyd Fredendall (1883), Morten Lauridsen (1943), Steve Anderson (1906), G. Gordon Liddy (1930), and John F. Kelly (1950).

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Among COMPOSERS In United States

Among composers born in United States, Vincent Youmans ranks 93. Before him are Ferde Grofé (1892), Paul Creston (1906), Rhys Chatham (1952), David Raksin (1912), Virgil Thomson (1896), and Paul Williams (1940). After him are Morten Lauridsen (1943), Florence Price (1887), John Kander (1927), Spike Jones (1911), Howard Hanson (1896), and Steve Jablonsky (1970).

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