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George Perle

1915 - 2009

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George Perle (6 May 1915 – 23 January 2009) was an American composer and music theorist. As a composer, his music was largely atonal, using methods similar to the twelve-tone technique of the Second Viennese School. This serialist style, and atonality in general, was the subject of much of his theoretical writings. His 1962 book, Serial Composition and Atonality: An Introduction to the Music of Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern remains a standard text for 20th-century classical music theory. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. George Perle is the 1,365th most popular composer (up from 1,412th in 2019), the 11,717th most popular biography from United States (up from 13,913th in 2019) and the 122nd most popular American Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, George Perle ranks 1,365 out of 1,451. Before him are Udo Zimmermann, Javier Navarrete, Kaoru Wada, Roy Harris, Eubie Blake, and Christian Wolff. After him are Samuel Adler, Hans Abrahamsen, Angus MacLise, John Stainer, Ray Noble, and Fred Ebb.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, George Perle ranks 281. Before him are David "Honeyboy" Edwards, Dan Dailey, Ralph Bishop, Bill Williams, Lona Andre, and Khushwant Singh. After him are Malik Meraj Khalid, A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury, Joseph Galibardy, Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, Beyers Naudé, and Robin Montgomerie-Charrington. Among people deceased in 2009, George Perle ranks 376. Before him are Conyers Herring, Gennadiy Shatkov, Paul Burke, Brenda Joyce, Hugo Berly, and Lucy Gordon. After him are Lloyd Ruby, Mohammed Yusuf, Jang Jin-young, Aldo Valentini, Louie Bellson, and Andrea Mead Lawrence.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, George Perle ranks 11,719 out of 20,380. Before him are Janeane Garofalo (1964), Gladys Egan (1900), Adina Porter (1971), Virginia Valli (1895), Wiley Post (1898), and James Jones (1980). After him are Charlie Rose (1942), Patricia Richardson (1951), Alvah Bessie (1904), Barbara Mikulski (1936), Lisa Nowak (1963), and Anna Belknap (1972).

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Among COMPOSERS In United States

Among composers born in United States, George Perle ranks 122. Before him are Lou Harrison (1917), Robert Russell Bennett (1894), George Bruns (1914), Jerry Herman (1931), Roy Harris (1898), and Eubie Blake (2). After him are Angus MacLise (1938), Fred Ebb (1928), Raymond Scott (1908), George Whitefield Chadwick (1854), David Newman (1954), and Jerry Bock (1928).

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