COMPOSER

Yasushi Akutagawa

1925 - 1989

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Yasushi Akutagawa (芥川 也寸志, Akutagawa Yasushi, July 12, 1925 – January 31, 1989) was a Japanese composer and conductor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yasushi Akutagawa has received more than 108,842 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Yasushi Akutagawa is the 1,033rd most popular composer (down from 1,005th in 2019), the 1,099th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,009th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Japanese Composer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 110k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.03

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.90

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Yasushi Akutagawa ranks 1,033 out of 1,451. Before him are Vasily Safonov, Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, Daniel Gottlob Türk, Kevin MacLeod, Christopher Hogwood, and Wolfgang Rihm. After him are Gioseffo Guami, Camargo Guarnieri, Roman Vlad, Siegmund von Hausegger, Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, and Ludvig Norman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Yasushi Akutagawa ranks 273. Before him are Georg Buschner, Jan Wolkers, Joan Mitchell, Nat Lofthouse, Giovanni Coppa, and András Kovács. After him are Princess Marie Gabrielle of Luxembourg, Harry Guardino, Francisco Rodrigues, Charles Mackerras, Antoine Duhamel, and Simone Segouin. Among people deceased in 1989, Yasushi Akutagawa ranks 178. Before him are Robert Webber, Colin Clark, Carl Dahlhaus, Christine Jorgensen, Maurice Evans, and René Petit. After him are Sándor Weöres, Ronald Syme, John J. McCloy, Mark Krein, Harald Edelstam, and Richard Quine.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yasushi Akutagawa ranks 1,099 out of 6,245. Before him are Miho Kaneda (1950), Peter Doi (1892), Yoshio Kikugawa (1944), Mitski (1990), Megumi Hayashibara (1967), and Shunichiro Okano (1931). After him are Shunryū Suzuki (1904), Tadanobu Asano (1973), Ryūsei Nakao (1951), Atsuyoshi Furuta (1952), Katsuyuki Kawachi (1955), and Unshō Ishizuka (1951).

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Among COMPOSERS In Japan

Among composers born in Japan, Yasushi Akutagawa ranks 13. Before him are Toshi Ichiyanagi (1933), Koichi Sugiyama (1931), Koji Kondo (1961), Keiko Abe (1937), Nobuo Uematsu (1959), and Akira Ifukube (1914). After him are Shirō Sagisu (1957), Fumio Hayasaka (1914), Akira Yamaoka (1968), Hiroyuki Sawano (1980), Masaaki Suzuki (1954), and Junichi Masuda (1968).

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