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Meredith Monk

1942 - Today

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Meredith Jane Monk (born November 20, 1942) is an American composer, performer, director, vocalist, filmmaker, and choreographer. From the 1960s onwards, Monk has created multi-disciplinary works which combine music, theatre, and dance, recording extensively for ECM Records. In 1991, Monk composed Atlas, an opera, commissioned and produced by the Houston Opera and the American Music Theater Festival. Her music has been used in films by the Coen Brothers (The Big Lebowski, 1998) and Jean-Luc Godard (Nouvelle Vague, 1990 and Notre musique, 2004). Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Meredith Monk is the 895th most popular composer (down from 849th in 2019), the 4,889th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,121st in 2019) and the 54th most popular American Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Meredith Monk ranks 895 out of 1,451. Before her are Armando Trovajoli, Silvestre Revueltas, Yuri Antonov, Robert Planquette, Marvin Hamlisch, and Cornelius Gurlitt. After her are Jaromír Weinberger, André Gedalge, Édouard Colonne, Werner Egk, Helmut Walcha, and Petrus de Cruce.

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Among people born in 1942, Meredith Monk ranks 295. Before her are Hannes Löhr, Ghada al-Samman, Beverly Aadland, Dee Dee Warwick, Lyudmila Zhivkova, and Alan Price. After her are Claude Miller, Gualtiero Bassetti, Margarita Terekhova, Peter Habeler, Antoine Berman, and Joaquim Rifé.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Meredith Monk ranks 4,889 out of 20,380. Before her are India Summer (1975), Abbie Hoffman (1936), Amanda Seyfried (1985), Seth MacFarlane (1973), Alexandra Daddario (1986), and John J. McCloy (1895). After her are John Carlos (1945), Herman Kahn (1922), Robert Foxworth (1941), Pat Mastelotto (1955), Amber Lynn (1964), and Benjamin Peirce (1809).

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Among COMPOSERS In United States

Among composers born in United States, Meredith Monk ranks 54. Before her are Harold Arlen (1905), George Crumb (1929), La Monte Young (1935), Elliott Carter (1908), Cathy Berberian (1925), and Marvin Hamlisch (1944). After her are Roger Sessions (1896), William Christie (1944), Kevin MacLeod (1972), Frederic Rzewski (1938), Joseph Lamb (1887), and Ferde Grofé (1892).

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