John Powell
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American pianist, ethnomusicologist and composer (1882–1963)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1925
- Works
- 104
Top works
- Why am I afraid to tell you who I am?
- Ironbridge Gorge Through Time
- Return To The Garden City
- Solving the riddle of self
- A theology of the apostolate of the church
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1963-09-18
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Discography
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- 825,946
- Total plays
- 21,734,485
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John Powell (born 18 September 1963) is an English composer, best known for his scores to motion pictures. He has been based in Los Angeles since 1997 and has composed the scores to over fifty feature films. He is particularly known for his scores for animated films, including Antz, Chicken Run, Shrek (all three co-composed with Harry Gregson-Williams), Robots, Happy Feet (and its sequel), three Ice Age sequels, Rio, and the How to Train Your Dragon film series, for which he was nominated for an
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- John
- Family name
- Powell
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Richmond
- Place of death
- Charlottesville
- Occupation
- pianist
- Educated at
- University of Virginia
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Student of
- Theodor Leschetizky
- Instrument
- piano
- Image
- John Powell at piano LCCN2014703303 (cropped).jpg
Show 5 more facts
- date of birth
- 1882-09-06
- date of death
- 1963-08-15
- place of burial
- Hollywood Cemetery
- Commons category
- John Powell (musician)
- different from
- John Powell
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