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Alfred Newman

1900 - 1970

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Alfred Newman (March 17, 1900 – February 17, 1970) was an American composer, arranger, and conductor of film music. From his start as a music prodigy, he came to be regarded as a respected figure in the history of film music. He won nine Academy Awards and was nominated 45 times, contributing to the extended Newman family being the most Academy Award-nominated family, with a collective 92 nominations in various music categories. In a career spanning more than four decades, Newman composed the scores for over 200 motion pictures. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alfred Newman is the 147th most popular composer (up from 637th in 2019), the 691st most popular biography from United States (up from 2,987th in 2019) and the 5th most popular American Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Alfred Newman ranks 147 out of 1,451. Before him are Pérotin, Giovanni Paisiello, Nicola Porpora, André Grétry, Johannes Ockeghem, and Gregorio Allegri. After him are Darius Milhaud, Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Paul Dukas, Christopher Hogwood, Marin Marais, and Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Alfred Newman ranks 31. Before him are Adolf Dassler, Jacques Prévert, Maria of Yugoslavia, Sándor Márai, Richard Kuhn, and Ragnar Granit. After him are Hans Fritzsche, James Hilton, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Jan Oort, Kurt Weill, and Pak Hon-yong. Among people deceased in 1970, Alfred Newman ranks 25. Before him are Peter II of Yugoslavia, Mark Rothko, C. V. Raman, Semyon Timoshenko, Rudolf Carnap, and Heinrich Brüning. After him are Jochen Rindt, Napoleon Hill, Eric Berne, Artem Mikoyan, Vladimir Propp, and Leslie Groves.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alfred Newman ranks 691 out of 20,380. Before him are John Waters (1946), Jerome Isaac Friedman (1930), Sally Field (1946), Janet Leigh (1927), Machine Gun Kelly (1895), and Harold Urey (1893). After him are Scottie Pippen (1965), Montgomery Clift (1920), Robert A. Heinlein (1907), James Coburn (1928), Frank Sinatra Jr. (1944), and Claude Shannon (1916).

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Among COMPOSERS In United States

Among composers born in United States, Alfred Newman ranks 5. Before him are George Gershwin (1898), John Williams (1932), John Cage (1912), and Leonard Bernstein (1918). After him are Philip Glass (1937), Samuel Barber (1910), Henry Mancini (1924), Scott Joplin (1868), Angelo Badalamenti (1937), Jerry Goldsmith (1929), and James Horner (1953).

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