COMPOSER

Vincent Youmans

1898 - 1946

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Vincent Millie Youmans (September 27, 1898 – April 5, 1946) was an American Broadway composer and producer. A leading Broadway composer of his day, Youmans collaborated with virtually all the greatest lyricists on Broadway: Ira Gershwin, Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein II, Irving Caesar, Anne Caldwell, Leo Robin, Howard Dietz, Clifford Grey, Billy Rose, Edward Eliscu, Edward Heyman, Harold Adamson, Buddy DeSylva and Gus Kahn. Youmans' early songs are remarkable for their economy of melodic material: two-, three- or four-note phrases are constantly repeated and varied by subtle harmonic or rhythmic changes. In later years, however, he turned to longer musical sentences and more rhapsodic melodic lines. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vincent Youmans is the 1,271st most popular composer (up from 1,280th in 2019), the 8,973rd most popular biography from United States (down from 8,739th in 2019) and the 90th most popular American Composer.

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Among composers, Vincent Youmans ranks 1,271 out of 1,451. Before him are Victor Herbert, Gerald Finzi, Näcip Cihanov, Peter Warlock, Vladimir Martynov, and Florence Price. After him are Klaus Egge, Pauline Oliveros, Federico Chueca, Alexandre Levy, Conlon Nancarrow, and Mikhail Gnessin.

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Among people born in 1898, Vincent Youmans ranks 257. Before him are Erik Abrahamsson, Mario Mattoli, Leila Denmark, Édouard Candeveau, Carl Johnson, and Eugène Dabit. After him are Gregor Wentzel, Konstantinos Dovas, Antonio Urdinarán, Domingo Acedo, Scott O'Dell, and H. A. Rey. Among people deceased in 1946, Vincent Youmans ranks 204. Before him are Leonida Tonelli, Henry Lehrman, León Cortés Castro, Ferdinand Boberg, João Sassetti, and Mary Alden. After him are Joseph Stella, Booth Tarkington, Adriaan van Maanen, Lucina Hagman, Paul Nash, and Elvira Notari.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Vincent Youmans ranks 8,975 out of 20,380. Before him are Malcolm Whitman (1877), Carrie Preston (1967), Auliʻi Cravalho (2000), Susan Tyrrell (1945), James LoMenzo (1959), and Martin Cruz Smith (1942). After him are Alison Arngrim (1962), Khalid (1998), Andy Ruiz Jr. (1989), Joe Torre (1940), Charles Q. Brown Jr. (1962), and Martin Mull (1943).

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Among COMPOSERS In United States

Among composers born in United States, Vincent Youmans ranks 90. Before him are Leigh Harline (1907), Mark Snow (1946), Virgil Thomson (1896), Marco Beltrami (1966), H. C. Robbins Landon (1926), and Florence Price (1887). After him are Pauline Oliveros (1932), Conlon Nancarrow (1912), Jonathan Larson (1960), Lowell Mason (1792), Paul Williams (1940), and Shirley Walker (1945).

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