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Alexander Dargomyzhsky

1813 - 1869

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Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky (Russian: Александр Сергеевич Даргомыжский, romanized: Aleksandr Sergeyevich Dargomyzhskiy, IPA: [ɐlʲɪkˈsandr sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪdʑ dərɡɐˈmɨʂskʲɪj] ; 14 February [O.S. 2 February] 1813 – 17 January [O.S. 5 January] 1869) was a 19th-century Russian composer. He bridged the gap in Russian opera composition between Mikhail Glinka and the later generation of The Five and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Dargomyzhsky is the 408th most popular composer (up from 465th in 2019), the 519th most popular biography from Russia (up from 621st in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Russian Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Alexander Dargomyzhsky ranks 408 out of 1,451. Before him are Józef Elsner, Eugen Doga, Karl Goldmark, Peter Cornelius, Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, and Joseph Bodin de Boismortier. After him are Gaspar Sanz, Adriano Banchieri, Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Paul Abraham, Nicolaus Bruhns, and Alexander Arutiunian.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1813, Alexander Dargomyzhsky ranks 21. Before him are Harriet Jacobs, Theophil Hansen, James Dwight Dana, Thomas Andrews, Princess Marie of Orléans, and Louis Lucien Bonaparte. After him are Auguste Maquet, Jørgen Moe, Christian Friedrich Hebbel, Princess Josephine of Baden, Matthias Castrén, and Jacob Georg Agardh. Among people deceased in 1869, Alexander Dargomyzhsky ranks 15. Before him are Johann Friedrich Overbeck, Hijikata Toshizō, Thomas Graham, Antoine-Henri Jomini, Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov, and Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille. After him are Giovanni Battista Bugatti, Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, Alexandrine Tinné, Carl Gustav Carus, Carl Loewe, and Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Dargomyzhsky ranks 519 out of 3,761. Before him are Vasily Dokuchaev (1846), Igor Ivanov (1945), Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia (1850), Afanasy Nikitin (1500), Grigory Orlov (1734), and Mathilde Kschessinska (1872). After him are Olga Knipper (1868), Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia (1859), Semyon Dezhnev (1605), Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov (1859), Valentin Ivanov (1934), and Nikolay Pavlovich Ignatyev (1832).

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Among COMPOSERS In Russia

Among composers born in Russia, Alexander Dargomyzhsky ranks 22. Before him are Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov (1883), Irving Berlin (1888), Sergei Taneyev (1856), Anatoly Lyadov (1855), Nikolai Medtner (1879), and Hans Pfitzner (1869). After him are Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov (1859), Gennady Rozhdestvensky (1931), Rodion Shchedrin (1932), Vasily Kalinnikov (1866), Tikhon Khrennikov (1913), and Aleksandra Pakhmutova (1929).

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