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Richard Rodgers

1902 - 1979

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Richard Charles Rodgers (June 28, 1902 – December 30, 1979) was an American composer who worked primarily in musical theater. With 43 Broadway musicals and over 900 songs to his credit, Rodgers was one of the best-known American composers of the 20th century, and his compositions had a significant influence on popular music. Rodgers is known for his songwriting partnerships, first with lyricist Lorenz Hart and then with Oscar Hammerstein II. With Hart he wrote musicals throughout the 1920s and 1930s, including Pal Joey, A Connecticut Yankee, On Your Toes and Babes in Arms. With Hammerstein he wrote musicals through the 1940s and 1950s, such as Oklahoma!, Flower Drum Song, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, and The Sound of Music. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Rodgers is the 391st most popular composer (up from 409th in 2019), the 2,092nd most popular biography from United States (down from 1,909th in 2019) and the 20th most popular American Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Richard Rodgers ranks 391 out of 1,451. Before him are Joaquín Turina, André Jolivet, Cole Porter, Jacobus Gallus, Johann Adam Reincken, and Giovanni Legrenzi. After him are Charles Koechlin, Karl Richter, Henri Dutilleux, Hans Pfitzner, Viktor Ullmann, and Mauricio Kagel.

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Among people born in 1902, Richard Rodgers ranks 69. Before him are Wilhelm Stuckart, Sylvanus Olympio, Kirill Moskalenko, Léon M'ba, Anatole Litvak, and Marcel Aymé. After him are Ion Gheorghe Maurer, Christian de Castries, Pascual Jordan, E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Takeichi Nishi, and Rafael Alberti. Among people deceased in 1979, Richard Rodgers ranks 54. Before him are Peggy Guggenheim, Louis Chiron, Nicholas Ray, Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth, Louis Durey, and Conrad Hilton. After him are Charles W. Morris, Walther Gerlach, Pier Luigi Nervi, Michael Wilding, Rudi Dutschke, and Heinz Reinefarth.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard Rodgers ranks 2,092 out of 20,380. Before him are Ben Bernanke (1953), Jack Reed (1949), Michael Shannon (1974), Tom Ford (1961), Conrad Hilton (1887), and Lee Remick (1935). After him are Richard E. Stearns (1936), Richard Jenkins (1947), Peter Diamond (1940), Charles W. Morris (1903), George Takei (1937), and Eleanor F. Helin (1932).

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Among COMPOSERS In United States

Among composers born in United States, Richard Rodgers ranks 20. Before him are Stephen Schwartz (1948), Charles Ives (1874), Alan Silvestri (1950), Aaron Copland (1900), Bernard Herrmann (1911), and Cole Porter (1891). After him are Elmer Bernstein (1922), Paul Bowles (1910), Danny Elfman (1953), James Newton Howard (1951), George Antheil (1900), and Bill Conti (1942).

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