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Frederick Loewe

1901 - 1988

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Frederick Loewe ( LOH; born Friedrich "Fritz" Löwe, German: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç fʁɪts ˈløːvə]; June 10, 1901 – February 14, 1988) was an American composer. He collaborated with lyricist Alan Jay Lerner on a series of Broadway musicals, including Brigadoon, Paint Your Wagon, My Fair Lady, and Camelot, all of which were made into films, as well as the original film musical Gigi (1958), which was first transferred to the stage in 1973. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Frederick Loewe is the 1,054th most popular composer (up from 1,058th in 2019), the 4,175th most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,204th in 2019) and the 154th most popular German Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Frederick Loewe ranks 1,054 out of 1,451Before him are Akira Ifukube, Gavriil Popov, Nicolas Dalayrac, Richard Addinsell, Francisco Mignone, and Johann Theile. After him are Sylvano Bussotti, Karen Khachaturian, Joseph Lamb, Alessandro Striggio, Igor Krutoy, and Jan A. P. Kaczmarek.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Frederick Loewe ranks 209Before him are Mark Oliphant, Arleigh Burke, Haj Ali Razmara, Frank Zamboni, Hugo Haas, and Alfred Müller-Armack. After him are Louis Clarke, Daniel-Rops, Luis Brunetto, Gustav Machatý, Lajos Dinnyés, and Francisco Ascaso. Among people deceased in 1988, Frederick Loewe ranks 142Before him are Frank Zamboni, Herluf Bidstrup, Rodolpho Barteczko, Steve Anderson, Alfred Kelbassa, and Steno. After him are Son House, Colleen Moore, Abdulrahman Fawzi, Fazlur Rahman Malik, Bernard Leene, and Hamengkubuwono IX.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Frederick Loewe ranks 4,177 out of 7,253Before him are Cordelia Edvardson (1929), Wilhelm Lexis (1837), Wolfgang Flür (1947), Walburga Habsburg Douglas (1958), Johann Theile (1646), and Carl Theodore Liebermann (1842). After him are Sibylla of Anhalt (1564), Lothar Metz (1939), Karl-Friedrich Haas (1931), Hans Cieslarczyk (1937), Carl Joseph Begas (1794), and Hermann Zapf (1918).

Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Frederick Loewe ranks 154Before him are Friedrich Silcher (1789), Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg (1718), Gustav Lange (1830), Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse (1774), Johann Adolf Scheibe (1708), and Johann Theile (1646). After him are Eduard Künneke (1885), Hugo Distler (1908), Johann Nicolaus Bach (1669), Karl Klindworth (1830), Walter Braunfels (1882), and Boris Papandopulo (1906).