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Matvey Blanter

1903 - 1990

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Matvey Isaakovich Blanter (10 February [O.S. 28 January] 1903 – 27 September 1990) was a Soviet composer, and one of the most prominent composers of popular songs and film music in the Soviet Union. Among many other works, he wrote the famous "Katyusha" (1938), performed to this day internationally. He was active as a composer until 1975, producing more than two thousand songs. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Matvey Blanter is the 797th most popular composer (down from 734th in 2019), the 1,048th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,032nd in 2019) and the 36th most popular Russian Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Matvey Blanter ranks 797 out of 1,451. Before him are Rued Langgaard, Jean-Henri d'Anglebert, Johann Melchior Molter, Vatroslav Lisinski, Wolfgang Rihm, and Johann Gottlieb Graun. After him are Luis de Narváez, Nikolai Tcherepnin, Franz Krommer, Moritz Hauptmann, Luzzasco Luzzaschi, and Muslim Magomayev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Matvey Blanter ranks 157. Before him are Lina Radke, Maria Giuseppa Robucci, K. Kamaraj, André Maschinot, Fumiko Hayashi, and Rafael Paasio. After him are Hans Litten, Issa Pliyev, Candido Portinari, Bertrand de Jouvenel, Vincent Richards, and Rensis Likert. Among people deceased in 1990, Matvey Blanter ranks 124. Before him are Luigi Beccali, Otto Ambros, Štefan Čambal, Irene Dunne, Rashad Khalifa, and Feng Youlan. After him are Venedikt Yerofeyev, Dodie Smith, Hans Freudenthal, Kelly Johnson, Dámaso Alonso, and Gordon Jackson.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Matvey Blanter ranks 1,048 out of 3,761. Before him are Friedrich von Lütke (1797), Pavel Pestel (1793), Yuri Bezmenov (1939), Vasily Rozanov (1856), Matvei Platov (1753), and Viktor Afanasyev (1948). After him are Nikolai Tcherepnin (1873), Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov (1852), Pavel Yablochkov (1847), Yuliya Solntseva (1901), Leonid Leonov (1899), and Muslim Magomayev (1885).

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Among COMPOSERS In Russia

Among composers born in Russia, Matvey Blanter ranks 36. Before him are Georgy Sviridov (1915), Sergei Lyapunov (1859), Boris Asafyev (1884), Galina Ustvolskaya (1919), Edison Denisov (1929), and Alexander Tcherepnin (1899). After him are Nikolai Tcherepnin (1873), Muslim Magomayev (1885), Airat Ichmouratov (1973), Eduard Artemyev (1937), Alexander Alyabyev (1787), and Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752).

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