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Mikhail Glinka

1804 - 1857

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Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (Russian: Михаил Иванович Глинка, romanized: Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka, IPA: [mʲɪxɐˈil ɨˈvanəvʲɪdʑ ˈɡlʲinkə] ; 1 June [O.S. 20 May] 1804 – 15 February [O.S. 3 February] 1857) was the first Russian composer to gain wide recognition within his own country and is often regarded as the fountainhead of Russian classical music. His compositions were an important influence on other Russian composers, notably the members of The Five, who produced a distinctive Russian style of music. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mikhail Glinka is the 110th most popular composer (up from 126th in 2019), the 125th most popular biography from Russia (up from 159th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Russian Composer.

Mikhail Glinka is most famous for his opera A Life for the Tsar.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Mikhail Glinka ranks 110 out of 1,451. Before him are Francis Poulenc, Arthur Honegger, Léo Delibes, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Alma Mahler, and Domenico Cimarosa. After him are Zoltán Kodály, Mily Balakirev, Muzio Clementi, Francisco Tárrega, Paul Hindemith, and György Ligeti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1804, Mikhail Glinka ranks 8. Before him are Ludwig Feuerbach, George Sand, Wilhelm Eduard Weber, Napoléon Louis Bonaparte, Franklin Pierce, and Benjamin Disraeli. After him are Emil Lenz, Allan Kardec, Marie Taglioni, Mongkut, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi. Among people deceased in 1857, Mikhail Glinka ranks 5. Before him are Auguste Comte, Augustin-Louis Cauchy, Archduchess Sophie of Austria, and Carl Czerny. After him are Dominic Savio, Eugène François Vidocq, Alfred de Musset, Charles Lucien Bonaparte, Eugène Sue, Hinrich Lichtenstein, and Louis-Eugène Cavaignac.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Mikhail Glinka ranks 125 out of 3,761. Before him are Olga of Kiev (890), Nikolai Lobachevsky (1792), Mikhail Sholokhov (1905), Feodor III of Russia (1661), Dzhokhar Dudayev (1944), and Shamil, 3rd Imam of Dagestan (1797). After him are Sergey Kirov (1886), Vasili IV of Russia (1552), Mily Balakirev (1837), Andrey Kolmogorov (1903), Pavel Cherenkov (1904), and Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia (1878).

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Among COMPOSERS In Russia

Among composers born in Russia, Mikhail Glinka ranks 9. Before him are Dmitri Shostakovich (1906), Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873), Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844), Modest Mussorgsky (1839), Alexander Borodin (1833), and Alexander Scriabin (1871). After him are Mily Balakirev (1837), Sofia Gubaidulina (1931), Dmitry Kabalevsky (1904), Otto Nicolai (1810), Alfred Schnittke (1934), and Anton Arensky (1861).

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