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Alexandre Tansman

1897 - 1986

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Alexander Tansman (Polish: Aleksander Tansman, French: Alexandre Tansman; 12 June 1897 – 15 November 1986) was a Polish composer, pianist and conductor who became a naturalized French citizen in 1938. One of the earliest representatives of neoclassicism, associated with École de Paris, Tansman was a globally recognized and celebrated composer. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexandre Tansman is the 574th most popular composer (down from 507th in 2019), the 458th most popular biography from Poland (down from 423rd in 2019) and the 16th most popular Polish Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Alexandre Tansman ranks 574 out of 1,451. Before him are Joseph Szigeti, William Boyce, Alexandre Desplat, Johann Nikolaus Forkel, Per Nørgård, and Aloysia Weber. After him are Dora Pejačević, Eleni Karaindrou, Florian Leopold Gassmann, Guillaume Lekeu, Pavel Haas, and Alois Hába.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Alexandre Tansman ranks 115. Before him are Maximus V of Constantinople, Olga Chekhova, Polina Zhemchuzhina, Vaso Čubrilović, Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, and Virginia Henderson. After him are Fazlollah Zahedi, Eddie Eagan, George Szell, Marian Anderson, Michael Lippert, and Edmund Heines. Among people deceased in 1986, Alexandre Tansman ranks 89. Before him are Arthur Grumiaux, Robert Stevenson, Henri Toivonen, Christa McAuliffe, Bernard Malamud, and Christopher Isherwood. After him are Ernst Neufert, Mart Stam, Princess Yolanda of Savoy, Moses Finley, Judith Resnik, and Liu Bocheng.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Alexandre Tansman ranks 458 out of 1,694. Before him are Anny Ondra (1903), Maria Konopnicka (1842), Paweł Pawlikowski (1957), Ewa Kopacz (1956), Gottfried Achenwall (1719), and Władysław III Spindleshanks (1165). After him are Piotr Skarga (1536), Stanisław Przybyszewski (1868), Gunther von Hagens (1945), Adalbert Krueger (1832), Prince Adolf zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen (1797), and Prince Franz Wilhelm of Prussia (1943).

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Among COMPOSERS In Poland

Among composers born in Poland, Alexandre Tansman ranks 16. Before him are Mieczysław Weinberg (1919), Grażyna Bacewicz (1909), Viktor Ullmann (1898), Józef Elsner (1769), Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska (1834), and Johann Adam Hiller (1728). After him are Johann Schobert (1720), Franz Waxman (1906), Wolfgang Schmieder (1901), Karol Lipiński (1790), Andrzej Panufnik (1914), and Zbigniew Preisner (1955).

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