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Joseph Lamb

1887 - 1960

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Joseph Francis Lamb (December 6, 1887 – September 3, 1960) was an American composer of ragtime music. Lamb, of Irish descent, was the only non-African American of the "Big Three" composers of classical ragtime, the other two being Scott Joplin and James Scott. The ragtime of Joseph Lamb ranges from standard popular fare to complex and highly engaging. His use of long phrases was influenced by classical works he had learned from his sister and others while growing up, but his sense of structure was potentially derived from his study of Joplin's piano rags. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Lamb is the 1,057th most popular composer (up from 1,382nd in 2019), the 6,163rd most popular biography from United States (up from 12,309th in 2019) and the 59th most popular American Composer.

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Among composers, Joseph Lamb ranks 1,057 out of 1,451. Before him are Richard Addinsell, Francisco Mignone, Johann Theile, Frederick Loewe, Sylvano Bussotti, and Karen Khachaturian. After him are Alessandro Striggio, Igor Krutoy, Jan A. P. Kaczmarek, James MacMillan, Alexander Serov, and Adolf Fredrik Lindblad.

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Among people born in 1887, Joseph Lamb ranks 184. Before him are Joseph Orbeli, Antonio Moreno, Reginald Owen, Thoralf Skolem, Hranush Arshagyan, and Arcadio Larraona Saralegui. After him are Amadeo García, Julius Pokorny, Teodor Koskenniemi, Waloddi Weibull, Kalle Anttila, and Yuri Shaporin. Among people deceased in 1960, Joseph Lamb ranks 155. Before him are Ernst Wilhelm Bohle, Ken McArthur, Oswald Veblen, Paul Fort, Bogoljub Jevtić, and Alexandre Lippmann. After him are Teodoro Picado Michalski, Ayşe Sultan, Semyon Bogdanov, Ian Keith, Arthur Meighen, and Pedro Arispe.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joseph Lamb ranks 6,163 out of 20,380. Before him are David Paich (1954), Felicia Farr (1932), Afeni Shakur (1947), Lauren Cohan (1982), Will Keith Kellogg (1860), and Howard Valentine (1881). After him are Elizabeth Wilson (1921), Anna Harrison (1775), Mark Donohue (1937), William Cohen (1940), Donovan Scott (1947), and Henry Augustus Rowland (1848).

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Among COMPOSERS In United States

Among composers born in United States, Joseph Lamb ranks 59. Before him are Marvin Hamlisch (1944), Meredith Monk (1942), Roger Sessions (1896), William Christie (1944), Kevin MacLeod (1972), and Frederic Rzewski (1938). After him are Ferde Grofé (1892), Walter Piston (1894), John Ottman (1964), Peter H. Gilmore (1958), Harry Partch (1901), and W. C. Handy (1873).

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