COMPOSER

Aleksandra Pakhmutova

1929 - Today

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Aleksandra Nikolayevna Pakhmutova (Russian: Александра Николаевна Пахмутова ; born 9 November 1929) is a Soviet and Russian composer. She has remained one of the best-known figures in Soviet and later Russian popular music since she first achieved fame in her homeland in the 1960s. She was awarded the People's Artist of the USSR in 1984. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Aleksandra Pakhmutova is the 606th most popular composer (down from 504th in 2019), the 764th most popular biography from Russia (down from 668th in 2019) and the 28th most popular Russian Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Aleksandra Pakhmutova ranks 606 out of 1,451Before her are Johann Andreas Stein, Helmut Lachenmann, Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini, Ernest Guiraud, Hans Christian Lumbye, and Pietro Nardini. After her are Franz Abt, Manuel Ponce, Alexander Gretchaninov, František Brixi, Jean-Joseph de Mondonville, and Eduardo di Capua.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Aleksandra Pakhmutova ranks 161Before her are Muhammad Said Ramadan al-Bouti, Tomislav Crnković, Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, Antonine Maillet, Lennart Skoglund, and Eva Schloss. After her are Albert Azaryan, Princess Alix of Luxembourg, Tamaz V. Gamkrelidze, Camilo Torres Restrepo, Selim Hoss, and Aleksandar Petrović.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Aleksandra Pakhmutova ranks 764 out of 3,761Before her are Boris Gromov (1943), Talabuga (1300), Yury Grigorovich (1927), Elvīra Ozoliņa (1939), Vera Figner (1852), and Erich von Drygalski (1865). After her are Ivan Susanin (1501), Sergei Dovlatov (1941), Arkady Gaidar (1904), Nikolai Voznesensky (1903), Ivan Sechenov (1829), and Nina Berberova (1901).

Among COMPOSERS In Russia

Among composers born in Russia, Aleksandra Pakhmutova ranks 28Before her are Alexander Dargomyzhsky (1813), Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov (1859), Gennady Rozhdestvensky (1931), Rodion Shchedrin (1932), Vasily Kalinnikov (1866), and Tikhon Khrennikov (1913). After her are Alexander Gretchaninov (1864), Georgy Sviridov (1915), Sergei Lyapunov (1859), Boris Asafyev (1884), Galina Ustvolskaya (1919), and Edison Denisov (1929).