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Humphrey Searle

1915 - 1982

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Humphrey Searle (26 August 1915 – 12 May 1982) was an English composer and writer on music. His music combines aspects of late Romanticism and modernist serialism, particularly reminiscent of his primary influences, Franz Liszt, Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern, who was briefly his teacher. As a writer on music, Searle published texts on numerous topics; he was an authority on the music of Franz Liszt, and created the initial cataloguing system for his works. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Humphrey Searle is the 1,315th most popular composer (up from 1,357th in 2019), the 4,944th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 5,137th in 2019) and the 81st most popular British Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Humphrey Searle ranks 1,315 out of 1,451. Before him are Walter Susskind, Cemal Reşit Rey, Vladimír Franz, Mariano Mores, David Raksin, and Harry Warren. After him are Thanos Mikroutsikos, Christopher Young, Morten Lauridsen, John Debney, Paul Le Flem, and Spike Jones.

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Among people born in 1915, Humphrey Searle ranks 255. Before him are Signe Hasso, Simo Puupponen, John Dobson, Georgy Tovstonogov, Bhisham Sahni, and Ismat Chughtai. After him are Earl Wild, Hanka Bielicka, Jean Parker, Jaroslav Volak, Claudia Testoni, and Ran Laurie. Among people deceased in 1982, Humphrey Searle ranks 281. Before him are Marty Robbins, Charles Walters, Raúl Fernández, Kenneth Rexroth, Cathleen Nesbitt, and Archibald MacLeish. After him are Virginia Fox, Willi Multhaup, James Broderick, Sue Carol, Yury Kazakov, and Lamberto Dalla Costa.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Humphrey Searle ranks 4,945 out of 8,785. Before him are Almroth Wright (1861), Phil Collen (1957), Gerald Scarfe (1936), John Claudius Loudon (1783), Clarence Kingsbury (1882), and Michael Drayton (1563). After him are Theo Walcott (1989), Edgar Evans (1876), David Hewlett (1968), Tanith Lee (1947), Thomas Phillips (1770), and Leslie Orgel (1927).

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Among COMPOSERS In United Kingdom

Among composers born in United Kingdom, Humphrey Searle ranks 81. Before him are Nicholas Hooper (1952), Thomas Tomkins (1572), Samuel Arnold (1740), Hamilton Harty (1879), Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875), and Gavin Bryars (1943). After him are David Arnold (1962), Henry Lawes (1595), Edmund Rubbra (1901), Jocelyn Pook (1960), Anne Dudley (1956), and Monty Norman (1928).

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