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Glenn Branca

1948 - 2018

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Glenn Branca (October 6, 1948 – May 13, 2018) was an American avant-garde composer, guitarist, and luthier. Known for his use of volume, alternative guitar tunings, repetition, droning, and the harmonic series, he was a driving force behind the genres of no wave, totalism and noise rock. Branca received a 2009 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Glenn Branca is the 1,219th most popular composer (up from 1,226th in 2019), the 7,850th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,571st in 2019) and the 78th most popular American Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Glenn Branca ranks 1,219 out of 1,451. Before him are Brad Fiedel, Lepo Sumera, Elliot Goldenthal, Cláudio Santoro, Jean-Joseph Mouret, and Abdylas Maldybaev. After him are Leonard Slatkin, Adolph Deutsch, Akira Yamaoka, Bronius Kutavičius, Luís de Freitas Branco, and Frank Churchill.

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Among people born in 1948, Glenn Branca ranks 500. Before him are Joseph Bruyère, Kathleen Battle, Bernadette Peters, Rocco Buttiglione, Hrafn Gunnlaugsson, and Abdulqawi Yusuf. After him are Mikhail Nikolayevich Zadornov, A Martinez, Patrick Moraz, Wolf Erlbruch, Angela Sommer-Bodenburg, and Carme Riera. Among people deceased in 2018, Glenn Branca ranks 362. Before him are Daniel Robin, Shinobu Sekine, Helena Almeida, Yurik Vardanyan, Lucho Gatica, and Leo Falcam. After him are Daša Drndić, Theo-Ben Gurirab, Yelena Shushunova, Arthur Barnard, Gennadi Gagulia, and Albin Vidović.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Glenn Branca ranks 7,852 out of 20,380. Before him are Jerry Lucas (1940), Jim Hutton (1934), Jack Colvin (1934), Corey Feldman (1971), Alan Shugart (1930), and Lester Bowie (1941). After him are Gorilla Monsoon (1937), Larry Drake (1950), Carol Lynley (1942), Jeff Perry (1955), Dylan Walsh (1963), and Kay Ivey (1944).

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Among COMPOSERS In United States

Among composers born in United States, Glenn Branca ranks 78. Before him are Gunther Schuller (1925), Paul Whiteman (1890), Alan Hovhaness (1911), William Bolcom (1938), Brad Fiedel (1951), and Elliot Goldenthal (1954). After him are Leonard Slatkin (1944), Frank Churchill (1901), David Diamond (1915), Milton Babbitt (1916), William Schuman (1910), and Leigh Harline (1907).

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