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Alan Hovhaness

1911 - 2000

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Alan Hovhaness (; born Alan Vaness Chakmakjian; March 8, 1911 – June 21, 2000) was an American composer. He was one of the most prolific 20th-century composers, with his official catalog comprising 67 numbered symphonies (surviving manuscripts indicate over 70) and 434 opus numbers. The true tally is well over 500 surviving works, since many opus numbers comprise two or more distinct works. The Boston Globe music critic Richard Buell wrote: "Although he has been stereotyped as a self-consciously Armenian composer (rather as Ernest Bloch is seen as a Jewish composer), his output assimilates the music of many cultures. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alan Hovhaness is the 1,198th most popular composer (up from 1,218th in 2019), the 7,624th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,481st in 2019) and the 74th most popular American Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Alan Hovhaness ranks 1,198 out of 1,451. Before him are Gunther Schuller, Stevan Hristić, Paul Whiteman, Klaus Badelt, Fred Frith, and Fartein Valen. After him are Shlomo Mintz, Italo Montemezzi, Thomas Linley the younger, Francisco Asenjo Barbieri, Dimitri Arakishvili, and Leonel Power.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Alan Hovhaness ranks 287. Before him are Sachchidananda Vatsyayan, Germano Boettcher Sobrinho, Lisa Fonssagrives, Sten Suvio, Jack Finney, and Jean Cayrol. After him are Kurt Maetzig, Sakari Tuomioja, Maurice Perrin, Constantin Stanciu, Tokiharu Abe, and Heinrich Mark. Among people deceased in 2000, Alan Hovhaness ranks 232. Before him are Enric Miralles, Putra of Perlis, Ernest Lluch, Viktor Kolotov, Stanislav Stratiev, and Corneliu Mănescu. After him are Sidney Johnson, Théodore Monod, Edward Battell, Benjamin Orr, Vincentas Sladkevičius, and Laila Kinnunen.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alan Hovhaness ranks 7,626 out of 20,380. Before him are Peter Hermann (1967), Agnes Ayres (1898), Louella Parsons (1881), Frank Norris (1870), Charles Francis Hall (1821), and Stith Thompson (1885). After him are Martin Klebba (1969), Alvin M. Weinberg (1915), Joe Kennedy III (1980), Sidney Johnson (1877), Margaret O'Brien (1937), and Charles A. Beard (1874).

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Among COMPOSERS In United States

Among composers born in United States, Alan Hovhaness ranks 74. Before him are Leonard Rosenman (1924), Carter Burwell (1954), Michael Giacchino (1967), Morton Gould (1913), Gunther Schuller (1925), and Paul Whiteman (1890). After him are William Bolcom (1938), Brad Fiedel (1951), Elliot Goldenthal (1954), Glenn Branca (1948), Leonard Slatkin (1944), and Frank Churchill (1901).

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