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César Cui

1835 - 1918

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César Antonovich Cui (Russian: Цезарь Антонович Кюи, romanized: Tsezar Antonovich Kyui; IPA: [ˈt͡sjezərʲ ɐnˈtonəvʲɪt͡ɕ kʲʊˈi] ; French: Cesarius Benjaminus Cui; 18 January [O.S. 6 January] 1835 – 26 March 1918) was a Russian composer and music critic, member of the Belyayev circle and The Five – a group of composers combined by the idea of creating a specifically Russian type of music. As an officer of the Imperial Russian Army, he rose to the rank of Engineer-General (equivalent to full General), taught fortifications in Russian military academies and wrote a number of monographs on the subject. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. César Cui is the 158th most popular composer (down from 135th in 2019), the 18th most popular biography from Lithuania (down from 14th in 2019) and the most popular Lithuanian Composer.

César Cui is most famous for his orchestral work, "The Russian Overture."

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, César Cui ranks 158 out of 1,451. Before him are Marin Marais, Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, François-Joseph Gossec, Léonin, Ottorino Respighi, and George Enescu. After him are Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Enrique Granados, Iannis Xenakis, Eduard Strauss, Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, and Kurt Weill.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, César Cui ranks 15. Before him are Giovanni Schiaparelli, Giosuè Carducci, Andrew Carnegie, Demetrius Vikelas, Samuel Butler, and Henryk Wieniawski. After him are Eduard Strauss, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Fukuzawa Yukichi, William Stanley Jevons, Nikolai Rubinstein, and Alexander Agassiz. Among people deceased in 1918, César Cui ranks 30. Before him are Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine, Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia, Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, George Reid, Niko Pirosmani, and Lavr Kornilov. After him are Ferdinand Hodler, Edmond Rostand, Arrigo Boito, Fanny Kaplan, Hermann Cohen, and Lili Boulanger.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, César Cui ranks 18 out of 328. Before him are Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (1858), Wilfrid Voynich (1865), Kęstutis (1297), Emilia Plater (1806), Dalia Grybauskaitė (1956), and Antanas Smetona (1874). After him are Valdas Adamkus (1926), Pyotr Wrangel (1878), Jascha Heifetz (1901), Barbara Radziwiłł (1520), Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875), and Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander (1799).

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Among COMPOSERS In Lithuania

Among composers born in Lithuania, César Cui ranks 1. After him are Maximilian Steinberg (1883), Emil Młynarski (1870), and Bronius Kutavičius (1932).

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