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Boris Asafyev

1884 - 1949

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Boris Vladimirovich Asafyev (29 July [O.S. 17 July] 1884 – 27 January 1949; also known by pseudonym Igor Glebov) was a Russian and Soviet composer, writer, musicologist, musical critic and one of founders of Soviet musicology. He is the dedicatee of Prokofiev's First Symphony. He was born in Saint Petersburg. Asafyev had a strong influence on Soviet music. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Boris Asafyev is the 747th most popular composer (up from 756th in 2019), the 957th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,068th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular Russian Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Boris Asafyev ranks 747 out of 1,451. Before him are Edward MacDowell, Ernest Gold, Aribert Reimann, Aristides Quintilianus, Michel Blavet, and Domenico Gabrielli. After him are Carlos Chávez, Franchinus Gaffurius, Pierre Attaingnant, Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély, Manuel Cardoso, and Josef Tal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Boris Asafyev ranks 93. Before him are James Alberione, Johannes Heinrich Schultz, Wilhelm Brückner, Johannes Popitz, George Sarton, and Philipp Frank. After him are Enrico Dante, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Pedro Pablo Ramírez, Charles Tomlinson Griffes, Santiago Casares Quiroga, and Ernest Payne. Among people deceased in 1949, Boris Asafyev ranks 84. Before him are Koçi Xoxe, Frank Morgan, Sam Wood, Nándor Dáni, Otto Nerz, and Tan Malaka. After him are Martin Knudsen, Ivan Poddubny, Traicho Kostov, Josep Maria Jujol, Vyacheslav Ivanov, and Othon Friesz.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Boris Asafyev ranks 957 out of 3,761. Before him are Countess Friederike von Schlieben (1757), Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov (1777), Kurt Hensel (1861), Platon Zubov (1767), Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin (1878), and Victor Skumin (1948). After him are Elisaveta Bykova (1913), Yury Yakovlev (1928), Nikolay Krylov (1903), Vladimir Sorokin (1955), Karl Maximovich (1827), and Oleg Yefremov (1927).

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Among COMPOSERS In Russia

Among composers born in Russia, Boris Asafyev ranks 32. Before him are Vasily Kalinnikov (1866), Tikhon Khrennikov (1913), Aleksandra Pakhmutova (1929), Alexander Gretchaninov (1864), Georgy Sviridov (1915), and Sergei Lyapunov (1859). After him are Galina Ustvolskaya (1919), Edison Denisov (1929), Alexander Tcherepnin (1899), Matvey Blanter (1903), Nikolai Tcherepnin (1873), and Muslim Magomayev (1885).

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