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Nicolas Slonimsky

1894 - 1995

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Nicolas Slonimsky (April 27 [O.S. April 15] 1894 – December 25, 1995), born Nikolai Leonidovich Slonimskiy (Russian: Никола́й Леони́дович Слoнимский), was a Russian-born American musicologist, conductor, pianist, and composer. Best known for his writing and musical reference work, he wrote the Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns and the Lexicon of Musical Invective, and edited Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nicolas Slonimsky is the 930th most popular composer (up from 1,141st in 2019), the 1,256th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,766th in 2019) and the 45th most popular Russian Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Nicolas Slonimsky ranks 930 out of 1,451. Before him are Anthony van Hoboken, Zakir Hussain, Leopold Hofmann, Maximilian Steinberg, Antonio Bertali, and Théodore Gouvy. After him are Antoine Brumel, Francesco Manfredini, Franz Tunder, Nikolay Diletsky, Victor Massé, and Henri Sauguet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Nicolas Slonimsky ranks 146. Before him are Gunnar Sköld, Paul Dessau, Âşık Veysel, Jean Rostand, Tibor Déry, and Oskar Maria Graf. After him are Alfred Berger, Christian Schad, Turar Ryskulov, Lisa Tetzner, Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, and Giuseppe Tucci. Among people deceased in 1995, Nicolas Slonimsky ranks 162. Before him are Oles Honchar, Dany Robin, Jerry Garcia, Burl Ives, Ioannis Alevras, and Mickey Mantle. After him are Robert Monroe, Annie M. G. Schmidt, James Samuel Coleman, Willem Frederik Hermans, Jüri Järvet, and Harry Guardino.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nicolas Slonimsky ranks 1,256 out of 3,761. Before him are Veijo Meri (1928), Princess Vera Constantinovna of Russia (1906), Natalya Kovshova (1920), Anatoly Marchenko (1938), Stanislav Govorukhin (1936), and Victor Pelevin (1962). After him are Semyon Chelyuskin (1700), Boris Volynov (1934), Yuri Rytkheu (1930), Kaj Franck (1911), Vladimir Petlyakov (1891), and Dmitry Karbyshev (1880).

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Among COMPOSERS In Russia

Among composers born in Russia, Nicolas Slonimsky ranks 45. Before him are Airat Ichmouratov (1973), Eduard Artemyev (1937), Alexander Alyabyev (1787), Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752), Vissarion Shebalin (1902), and Erkki Melartin (1875). After him are Ivan Larionov (1830), Hermann Goetz (1840), Sergei Vasilenko (1872), Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov (1936), Gavriil Popov (1904), and Karen Khachaturian (1920).

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