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Stanley Myers

1930 - 1993

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Stanley Myers (6 October 1930 – 9 November 1993) was an English composer and conductor, who scored over sixty films and television series, working closely with filmmakers Nicolas Roeg, Jerzy Skolimowski and Volker Schlöndorff. He is best known for his guitar piece "Cavatina", composed for the 1970 film The Walking Stick and later used as the theme for The Deer Hunter. He was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Film Music for Wish You Were Here (1987), and was an early collaborator with and mentor of Hans Zimmer. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Stanley Myers is the 784th most popular composer (up from 843rd in 2019), the 2,433rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,331st in 2019) and the 33rd most popular British Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Stanley Myers ranks 784 out of 1,451. Before him are Napoléon Henri Reber, Charles Villiers Stanford, Johann Baptist Cramer, Brian Tyler, Thomas Newman, and Antonín Vranický. After him are Hucbald, Gaspar Cassadó, Gottfried von Einem, Karl Michael Ziehrer, Jan Václav Voříšek, and Gaetano Pugnani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Stanley Myers ranks 239. Before him are Stuart Lewis-Evans, David Huddleston, Bora Kostić, Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou, Ross Perot, and Liliana Segre. After him are Salvatore De Giorgi, Elza Soares, Walter Mischel, Viktor Tsybulenko, Gholamreza Takhti, and Robert H. MacArthur. Among people deceased in 1993, Stanley Myers ranks 113. Before him are Monte Melkonian, William L. Shirer, Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov, John Tuzo Wilson, Richard Jordan, and Guido Masetti. After him are Henry Hazlitt, Yuri Bezmenov, Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo, Buddhadasa, Freya Stark, and Deke Slayton.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Stanley Myers ranks 2,433 out of 8,785. Before him are Mary Bell (1957), Mark of Cornwall (480), Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury (1563), Abigail Masham, Baroness Masham (1670), Mick Box (1947), and Allan Octavian Hume (1829). After him are Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1516), Jamie Vardy (1987), Penelope Wilton (1946), Joseph Butler (1692), John Baskerville (1706), and Julie Driscoll Tippetts (1947).

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Among COMPOSERS In United Kingdom

Among composers born in United Kingdom, Stanley Myers ranks 33. Before him are John Taverner (1490), Malcolm Arnold (1921), Arthur Sullivan (1842), Jeremiah Clarke (1674), John Stanley (1712), and Thomas Morley (1557). After him are Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (1892), York Bowen (1884), Michael Tippett (1905), Rebecca Clarke (1886), John Tavener (1944), and Frank Bridge (1879).

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