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Maria Szymanowska

1789 - 1831

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Maria Szymanowska (Polish pronunciation: [ˈmarja ʂɨmaˈnɔfska]; born Marianna Agata Wołowska; Warsaw, 14 December 1789 – 25 July 1831, St. Petersburg, Russia) was a Polish composer and one of the first professional virtuoso pianists of the 19th century. She toured extensively throughout Europe, especially in the 1820s, before settling permanently in St. Petersburg. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Maria Szymanowska is the 330th most popular composer (up from 406th in 2019), the 268th most popular biography from Poland (up from 344th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Polish Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Maria Szymanowska ranks 330 out of 1,451. Before her are Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Sylvius Leopold Weiss, Alan Silvestri, André Campra, Aaron Copland, and Heinrich Isaac. After her are Julius Fučík, Bernard Herrmann, Keith Emerson, Luca Marenzio, Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov, and Johann van Beethoven.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1789, Maria Szymanowska ranks 13. Before her are María Isabella of Spain, Friedrich List, Stéphanie de Beauharnais, Horace Vernet, Johann Friedrich Overbeck, and Heinrich Schwabe. After her are Abbas Mirza, Carl Gustav Carus, Princess Louise Caroline of Hesse-Kassel, Nicolas-Charles Bochsa, Marcellin Champagnat, and Princess Amélie Louise of Arenberg. Among people deceased in 1831, Maria Szymanowska ranks 18. Before her are Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Charles Felix of Sardinia, Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich of Russia, August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf, and Barthold Georg Niebuhr. After her are Ignaz Pleyel, Vicente Guerrero, Rodolphe Kreutzer, Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, Thomas Johann Seebeck, and Henri Grégoire.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Maria Szymanowska ranks 268 out of 1,694. Before her are Hugo Münsterberg (1863), Jan Długosz (1415), Jerzy Kukuczka (1948), Aleksander Kwaśniewski (1954), Martin Kutta (1867), and Hans-Jürgen Stumpff (1889). After her are Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska (1676), Franz Mehring (1846), Hermann Grassmann (1809), Henryk Szeryng (1918), Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1848), and Władysław I Herman (1043).

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Among COMPOSERS In Poland

Among composers born in Poland, Maria Szymanowska ranks 9. Before her are Witold Lutosławski (1913), Henryk Górecki (1933), Martin Agricola (1486), Moritz Moszkowski (1854), Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881), and Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1687). After her are Mieczysław Weinberg (1919), Grażyna Bacewicz (1909), Viktor Ullmann (1898), Józef Elsner (1769), Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska (1834), and Johann Adam Hiller (1728).

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