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Moritz Moszkowski

1854 - 1925

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Moritz Moszkowski (23 August 1854 – 4 March 1925) was a German-Polish composer, pianist, and teacher. His brother Alexander Moszkowski was a famous writer and satirist in Berlin. Ignacy Paderewski said: "After Chopin, Moszkowski best understands how to write for the piano, and his writing embraces the whole gamut of piano technique." Although less known today, Moszkowski was well respected and popular during the late nineteenth century. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Moritz Moszkowski is the 319th most popular composer (up from 452nd in 2019), the 257th most popular biography from Poland (up from 374th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Polish Composer.

Moritz Moszkowski was a composer and pianist. He is most famous for his piano pieces.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Moritz Moszkowski ranks 319 out of 1,451. Before him are Johann Kuhnau, Charles Ives, Thomas Tallis, Pietro Della Valle, Georges Auric, and Johann Georg Pisendel. After him are Nikolai Myaskovsky, Sigismond Thalberg, Johan Halvorsen, Alberto Ginastera, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, and Sylvius Leopold Weiss.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1854, Moritz Moszkowski ranks 21. Before him are Johannes Rydberg, Engelbert Humperdinck, Hertha Ayrton, Paul von Rennenkampf, Salomon August Andrée, and Albert Edelfelt. After him are Paul Natorp, Léo Taxil, Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Yan Fu, Georges Picquart, and Alphonse Allais. Among people deceased in 1925, Moritz Moszkowski ranks 44. Before him are Lovis Corinth, Pierre Louÿs, Max Linder, Eugen Sandow, Fritz Haarmann, and August von Wassermann. After him are Antti Aarne, Boris Savinkov, Clément Ader, Michel Verne, Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, and Hidesaburō Ueno.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Moritz Moszkowski ranks 257 out of 1,694. Before him are Elisabeth Volkenrath (1919), Akiba Rubinstein (1880), Tadeusz Mazowiecki (1927), Itzhak Stern (1901), Johannes Zukertort (1842), and Hagen Kleinert (1941). After him are Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881), Agnieszka Holland (1948), Hermann Schwarz (1843), Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1687), Hugo Münsterberg (1863), and Jan Długosz (1415).

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Among COMPOSERS In Poland

Among composers born in Poland, Moritz Moszkowski ranks 6. Before him are Frédéric Chopin (1810), Krzysztof Penderecki (1933), Witold Lutosławski (1913), Henryk Górecki (1933), and Martin Agricola (1486). After him are Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881), Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1687), Maria Szymanowska (1789), Mieczysław Weinberg (1919), Grażyna Bacewicz (1909), and Viktor Ullmann (1898).

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