COMPOSER

Harry Partch

1901 - 1974

Harry Partch

Harry Partch (June 24, 1901 – September 3, 1974) was an American composer, music theorist, and creator of unique musical instruments. He composed using scales of unequal intervals in just intonation, and was one of the first 20th-century composers in the West to work systematically with microtonal scales, alongside Lou Harrison. He built his own instruments in these tunings on which to play his compositions, and described the method behind his theory and practice in his book Genesis of a Music (1947). Partch composed with scales dividing the octave into 43 unequal tones derived from the natural harmonic series; these scales allowed for more tones of smaller intervals than in standard Western tuning, which uses twelve equal intervals to the octave. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Harry Partch is the 1,117th most popular composer (down from 1,103rd in 2019), the 6,680th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,112th in 2019) and the 64th most popular American Composer.

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Among composers, Harry Partch ranks 1,117 out of 1,451. Before him are Johanna Kinkel, Koji Kondo, Einar Englund, Jacopo da Bologna, Aulis Sallinen, and Yasushi Akutagawa. After him are Girolamo Diruta, Marcello Abbado, Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson, Ture Rangström, Adolf Bernhard Marx, and Francesco Antonio Vallotti.

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Rank: 1,117
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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Harry Partch ranks 227. Before him are Carl Joachim Friedrich, José Planas, Franco Rasetti, Åke Borg, Sergey Obraztsov, and Roy Urquhart. After him are Andrée Brunet, Joseph De Combe, Max Lorenz, Mark Donskoy, Raymond Firth, and Aleksandrs Čaks. Among people deceased in 1974, Harry Partch ranks 165. Before him are Glenn Morris, Gheorghe Albu, Lily Kronberger, Cora Sandel, Kick Smit, and Élie Lescot. After him are Zaharia Stancu, Betty Compson, Erskine Hamilton Childers, Ned Maddrell, Françoise Rosay, and Adolph Gottlieb.

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Carl Joachim Friedrich
POLITICAL SCIENTIST
1901 - 1984
HPI: 57.16
Rank: 221
José Planas
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1901 - 1977
HPI: 57.13
Rank: 222
Franco Rasetti
PHYSICIST
1901 - 2001
HPI: 57.08
Rank: 223
Åke Borg
SWIMMER
1901 - 1973
HPI: 57.01
Rank: 224
Sergey Obraztsov
FILM DIRECTOR
1901 - 1992
HPI: 56.97
Rank: 225
Roy Urquhart
MILITARY PERSONNEL
1901 - 1988
HPI: 56.88
Rank: 226
Harry Partch
COMPOSER
1901 - 1974
HPI: 56.85
Rank: 227
Andrée Brunet
SKATER
1901 - 1993
HPI: 56.83
Rank: 228
Joseph De Combe
POLITICIAN
1901 - 1965
HPI: 56.81
Rank: 229
Max Lorenz
SINGER
1901 - 1975
HPI: 56.78
Rank: 230
Mark Donskoy
FILM DIRECTOR
1901 - 1981
HPI: 56.73
Rank: 231
Raymond Firth
ANTHROPOLOGIST
1901 - 2002
HPI: 56.70
Rank: 232
Aleksandrs Čaks
WRITER
1901 - 1950
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Rank: 233