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Howard Shore

1946 - Today

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Howard Leslie Shore (born October 18, 1946) is a Canadian composer, conductor and orchestrator noted for his film scores. He has composed the scores for over 80 films, most notably the scores for The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit film trilogies. He won three Academy Awards for his work on The Lord of the Rings, with one being for the song "Into the West", an award he shared with Eurythmics lead vocalist Annie Lennox and writer/producer Fran Walsh, who wrote the lyrics. He is a consistent collaborator with director David Cronenberg, having scored all but one of his films since 1979, and collaborated with Martin Scorsese on six of his films. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Howard Shore is the 271st most popular composer (down from 214th in 2019), the 57th most popular biography from Canada (down from 42nd in 2019) and the most popular Canadian Composer.

Howard Shore is most famous for composing the score for the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Howard Shore ranks 271 out of 1,451. Before him are Giovanni Battista Sammartini, Johann Christoph Bach, Andrea Luchesi, Saverio Mercadante, Turlough O'Carolan, and Joseph Lanner. After him are Johann Christoph Bach, Friedrich Kuhlau, Steve Reich, Miklós Rózsa, Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, and Henryk Górecki.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Howard Shore ranks 112. Before him are Steve Biko, Philip Pullman, John Heard, Jean Todt, Robert Reich, and Stan Smith. After him are Htin Kyaw, Brenda Blethyn, Janet Yellen, Claudia Goldin, Semion Mogilevich, and Michael Czerny.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Howard Shore ranks 57 out of 1,622. Before him are Marc Ouellet (1944), Wayne Gretzky (1961), Manly P. Hall (1901), René Angélil (1942), Henry Mintzberg (1939), and Joni Mitchell (1943). After him are John Kenneth Galbraith (1908), Princess Margriet of the Netherlands (1943), Peter North (1957), Catherine O'Hara (1954), Oswald Avery (1877), and Elliot Page (1987).

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Among COMPOSERS In Canada

Among composers born in Canada, Howard Shore ranks 1. After him are R. Murray Schafer (1933), Percy Faith (1908), Mychael Danna (1958), Claude Vivier (1948), Christophe Beck (1972), Erik Mongrain (1980), and Venetian Snares (1975).

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