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Mykola Lysenko

1842 - 1912

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Mykola Vitaliiovych Lysenko (Ukrainian: Микола Віталійович Лисенко; 22 March 1842 – 6 November 1912) was a Ukrainian composer, pianist, conductor and ethnomusicologist of the late Romantic period. In his time he was the central figure of Ukrainian music, with an oeuvre that includes operas, art songs, choral works, orchestral and chamber pieces, and a wide variety of solo piano music. He is often credited with founding a national music tradition during the Ukrainian national revival, in the vein of contemporaries such as Grieg in Norway, The Five in Russia as well as Smetana and Dvořák in what is now the Czech Republic. By studying and drawing from Ukrainian folk music, promoting the use of the Ukrainian language, and separating himself from Russian culture, his compositions form what many consider the quintessential essence of Ukrainian music. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mykola Lysenko is the 369th most popular composer (down from 368th in 2019), the 191st most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 200th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Ukrainian Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Mykola Lysenko ranks 369 out of 1,451. Before him are Louis Marchand, Franco Alfano, Wojciech Kilar, Johan Svendsen, Hans Leo Hassler, and Antoine Busnois. After him are Alfredo Casella, Jean-François Le Sueur, Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, John Dunstaple, Ernest Ansermet, and Alessandro Stradella.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1842, Mykola Lysenko ranks 31. Before him are Jean Gaston Darboux, Carl von Linde, Giovanni Giolitti, Johannes Zukertort, Arkhip Kuindzhi, and Giovanni Boldini. After him are Charles W. Alcock, Alphonse Borrelly, Nikolaos Gyzis, Ōyama Iwao, Gaston, Count of Eu, and Vilhelm Thomsen. Among people deceased in 1912, Mykola Lysenko ranks 32. Before him are Nettie Stevens, Bolesław Prus, Nogi Maresuke, Arthur MacArthur Jr., Franz Reichelt, and George Darwin. After him are Princess Marie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, James Paul Moody, Duchess Marie Gabrielle in Bavaria, Henry Tingle Wilde, Nicholas of Japan, and William Booth.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Mykola Lysenko ranks 191 out of 1,365. Before him are Zinaida Serebriakova (1884), Catherine Dolgorukov (1847), Louis B. Mayer (1884), Valentina Matviyenko (1949), Vassily Ivanchuk (1969), and Waldemar Haffkine (1860). After him are Kirill Moskalenko (1902), Kunigunda of Halych (1245), Igor Belanov (1960), Batbayan (700), Anatole Litvak (1902), and Tamara Press (1937).

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Among COMPOSERS In Ukraine

Among composers born in Ukraine, Mykola Lysenko ranks 9. Before him are Karol Szymanowski (1882), Reinhold Glière (1874), Dmitry Bortniansky (1751), Valentyn Sylvestrov (1937), Dimitri Tiomkin (1894), and Wojciech Kilar (1932). After him are Boris Lyatoshinsky (1894), Igor Markevitch (1912), Franz Doppler (1821), Sergei Bortkiewicz (1877), Myroslav Skoryk (1938), and Maxim Berezovsky (1745).

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