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COMPOSER

Walter Piston

1894 - 1976

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Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walter Piston has received more than 160,274 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Walter Piston is the 1,010th most popular composer (down from 949th in 2019), the 5,150th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,199th in 2019) and the 54th most popular American Composer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 160k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.12

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.82

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Walter Piston ranks 1,010 out of 1,216Before him are Meredith Monk, Hubert Parry, Yasushi Akutagawa, Hugo Distler, Johann Theile, and Antoine Duhamel. After him are Gottfried von Einem, Vagn Holmboe, Jacopo da Bologna, Michael William Balfe, Ivan Galamian, and Frank Churchill.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Walter Piston ranks 161Before him are Johan Wilhelm Rangell, Giuseppe Tucci, Willem Schermerhorn, Viorica Ursuleac, James Thurber, and Robert Menzies. After him are Oskar Maria Graf, José Bustamante y Rivero, Esfir Shub, Henryk Sławik, Nita Naldi, and Vilmos Aba-Novák. Among people deceased in 1976, Walter Piston ranks 143Before him are Floyd Council, Conduelo Píriz, Viggo Kampmann, Hidetsugu Yagi, Pál Turán, and Stanley Baker. After him are Yashpal, Maurice Dobb, Rudi Fischer, Mariano Ospina Pérez, Giuseppe Cavanna, and Ivo Van Damme.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Walter Piston ranks 5,150 out of 18,182Before him are Eli Roth (1972), James Marsters (1962), Brandi Love (1973), Catharine MacKinnon (1946), Dann Florek (1950), and Aidan Quinn (1959). After him are Peter Greene (1965), Nicky Hayden (1981), Christopher Atkins (1961), Donald Johanson (1943), Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841), and Mark Moses (1958).

Among COMPOSERS In United States

Among composers born in United States, Walter Piston ranks 54Before him are Lee Konitz (1927), Frederic Rzewski (1938), Cathy Berberian (1925), W. C. Handy (1873), Marvin Hamlisch (1944), and Meredith Monk (1942). After him are Frank Churchill (1901), Harry Partch (1901), Michael Giacchino (1967), Morton Gould (1913), Roger Sessions (1896), and William Christie (1944).