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Dmitri Shostakovich

1906 - 1975

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Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (25 September [O.S. 12 September] 1906 – 9 August 1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist who became internationally known after the premiere of his First Symphony in 1926 and thereafter was regarded as a major composer. Shostakovich achieved early fame in the Soviet Union, but had a complex relationship with its government. His 1934 opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk was initially a success but later condemned by the Soviet government, putting his career at risk. In 1948, his work was denounced under the Zhdanov Doctrine, with professional consequences lasting several years. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Dmitri Shostakovich is the 30th most popular composer (down from 27th in 2019), the 28th most popular biography from Russia (up from 34th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Russian Composer.

Dmitri Shostakovich is most famous for his symphonies. He was a Russian composer and pianist.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Dmitri Shostakovich ranks 30 out of 1,451. Before him are Maurice Ravel, Hector Berlioz, Georges Bizet, Claude Debussy, Bedřich Smetana, and Jacques Offenbach. After him are Ennio Morricone, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Richard Strauss, Sergei Prokofiev, Jean Sibelius, and Béla Bartók.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Dmitri Shostakovich ranks 6. Before him are Leonid Brezhnev, Puyi, Adolf Eichmann, Maria Goeppert Mayer, and Hannah Arendt. After him are Grace Hopper, Kurt Gödel, Samuel Beckett, Aristotle Onassis, Ernst Chain, and Faisal of Saudi Arabia. Among people deceased in 1975, Dmitri Shostakovich ranks 5. Before him are Haile Selassie, Chiang Kai-shek, Francisco Franco, and Hannah Arendt. After him are Ivo Andrić, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Umm Kulthum, Aristotle Onassis, Faisal of Saudi Arabia, Robert Robinson, and Otto Skorzeny.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Dmitri Shostakovich ranks 28 out of 3,761. Before him are Ivan Pavlov (1849), Maxim Gorky (1868), Lev Yashin (1929), Yuri Andropov (1914), Mikhail Bakunin (1814), and Alexander II of Russia (1818). After him are Isaac Asimov (1920), Vasily Zaitsev (1915), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918), Alexander III of Russia (1845), Konstantin Chernenko (1911), and David Hilbert (1862).

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Among COMPOSERS In Russia

Among composers born in Russia, Dmitri Shostakovich ranks 3. Before him are Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840), and Igor Stravinsky (1882). After him are Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873), Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844), Modest Mussorgsky (1839), Alexander Borodin (1833), Alexander Scriabin (1871), Mikhail Glinka (1804), Mily Balakirev (1837), Sofia Gubaidulina (1931), and Dmitry Kabalevsky (1904).

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