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Mykhailo Verbytskyi

1815 - 1870

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Mykhailo Mykhailovych Verbytskyi (Ukrainian: Михайло Михайлович Вербицький [mɪˈxɑjlo mɪˈxɑjlowɪtʃ werˈbɪtsʲkɪj]; March 4, 1815 – December 7, 1870), also anglicized as Michael Werbitzky, was a Ukrainian composer and a priest of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. He is considered to be one of the first professional composers of Galicia. He is best known for composing the melody to the national anthem of Ukraine. Verbytskyi's national anthem became widely played by orchestras and musicians around the world in support of Ukraine as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mykhailo Verbytskyi is the 1,006th most popular composer (down from 807th in 2019), the 839th most popular biography from Poland (down from 671st in 2019) and the 30th most popular Polish Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Mykhailo Verbytskyi ranks 1,006 out of 1,451. Before him are Matthew Locke, William Christie, Wacław of Szamotuły, Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg, Trevor Jones, and Vasily Safonov. After him are Artur Kapp, Jón Leifs, Hermann Goetz, Francesco Araja, Vagn Holmboe, and Erkki Aaltonen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1815, Mykhailo Verbytskyi ranks 56. Before him are John McDouall Stuart, Louis Le Chatelier, Johann Gottfried Piefke, Karl von Blaas, James B. Francis, and Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz. After him are Princess Therese of Nassau-Weilburg, Edward Forbes, Marguerite Bays, Ferdinando Petruccelli della Gattina, Henry Halleck, and James Legge. Among people deceased in 1870, Mykhailo Verbytskyi ranks 45. Before him are Alexei Lvov, Majid bin Said of Zanzibar, James Young Simpson, Imre Frivaldszky, Princess Amalie of Saxony, and Charles Forbes René de Montalembert. After him are Moshoeshoe I, Franz Josef Ruprecht, Johann Heinrich Blasius, Carlos Soublette, Auguste Duméril, and Christian Albrecht Jensen.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Mykhailo Verbytskyi ranks 839 out of 1,694. Before him are Jakub Błaszczykowski (1985), Ulli Lommel (1944), Wacław of Szamotuły (1520), Heinz Hopf (1894), Henry, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen (1778), and Tadeusz Konwicki (1926). After him are Willy Fritsch (1901), Małgorzata Braunek (1947), Erich Abraham (1895), Zofia Nałkowska (1884), Wojciech Korfanty (1873), and Albert Chmielowski (1846).

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Among COMPOSERS In Poland

Among composers born in Poland, Mykhailo Verbytskyi ranks 30. Before him are Josef Tal (1910), Krzysztof Komeda (1931), Carl Schuricht (1880), Salomon Jadassohn (1831), Arnold Mendelssohn (1855), and Wacław of Szamotuły (1520). After him are Jan A. P. Kaczmarek (1953), Karol Kurpiński (1785), Zygmunt Noskowski (1846), Ludomir Różycki (1883), Tadeusz Baird (1928), and Oskar Kolberg (1814).

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