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Grażyna Bacewicz

1909 - 1969

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Grażyna Bacewicz Biernacka ([ɡraˈʐɨna baˈt͡sɛvit͡ʂ] ; 5 February 1909 – 17 January 1969) was a Polish composer and violinist of Lithuanian origin. She is the second Polish female composer to have achieved national and international recognition, the first being Maria Szymanowska in the early 19th century. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Grażyna Bacewicz is the 376th most popular composer (down from 372nd in 2019), the 304th most popular biography from Poland (up from 318th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Polish Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Grażyna Bacewicz ranks 376 out of 1,451Before her are Alfredo Casella, Jean-François Le Sueur, Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, John Dunstaple, Ernest Ansermet, and Alessandro Stradella. After her are Toru Takemitsu, Josef Rheinberger, Alexander Agricola, Louis Durey, Nikolai Medtner, and Ferdinando Carulli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Grażyna Bacewicz ranks 64Before her are Rudolf Brandt, Robert Ryan, Ernst vom Rath, Mohammad Ali Bogra, Rollo May, and John Haigh. After her are Werner Naumann, Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia, Nikolay Bogolyubov, Princess Ileana of Romania, W. Montgomery Watt, and Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani. Among people deceased in 1969, Grażyna Bacewicz ranks 53Before her are Itzhak Stern, Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark, Li Zongren, Walter Christaller, Erika Mann, and Ernest Ansermet. After her are Artur da Costa e Silva, Radivoj Korać, Dragiša Cvetković, Eberhard von Mackensen, Korney Chukovsky, and Wilhelm Backhaus.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Grażyna Bacewicz ranks 304 out of 1,694Before her are Sławomir Mrożek (1930), Siemomysł (922), Otto Mueller (1874), Daniel Olbrychski (1945), Rüdiger von der Goltz (1865), and Michał Kleofas Ogiński (1765). After her are Andreas Schlüter (1660), Lubomyr Husar (1933), Kazimierz Kuratowski (1896), Werner Naumann (1909), Jan Zamoyski (1542), and Sophie of Pomerania (1498).

Among COMPOSERS In Poland

Among composers born in Poland, Grażyna Bacewicz ranks 11Before her are Martin Agricola (1486), Moritz Moszkowski (1854), Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881), Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1687), Maria Szymanowska (1789), and Mieczysław Weinberg (1919). After her are Viktor Ullmann (1898), Józef Elsner (1769), Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska (1834), Johann Adam Hiller (1728), Alexandre Tansman (1897), and Johann Schobert (1720).