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Nikolai Medtner

1879 - 1951

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Nikolai Karlovich Medtner (Russian: Николай Карлович Метнер, romanized: Nikolay Karlovich Metner; 5 January 1880 [O.S. 24 December 1879] – 13 November 1951) was a Russian composer and pianist. After a period of comparative obscurity in the 25 years immediately after his death, he is now becoming recognized as one of the most significant Russian composers for the piano. A younger contemporary of Sergei Rachmaninoff and Alexander Scriabin, he wrote a substantial number of compositions, all of which include the piano. His works include 14 piano sonatas, three violin sonatas, three piano concerti, a piano quintet, two works for two pianos, many shorter piano pieces, a few shorter works for violin and piano, and 108 songs including two substantial works for vocalise. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nikolai Medtner is the 381st most popular composer (up from 425th in 2019), the 489th most popular biography from Russia (up from 569th in 2019) and the 20th most popular Russian Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Nikolai Medtner ranks 381 out of 1,451. Before him are Alessandro Stradella, Grażyna Bacewicz, Toru Takemitsu, Josef Rheinberger, Alexander Agricola, and Louis Durey. After him are Ferdinando Carulli, Christian Gottlob Neefe, Giovanni Bottesini, Joaquín Turina, André Jolivet, and Cole Porter.

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Among people born in 1879, Nikolai Medtner ranks 54. Before him are Franz Reichelt, Aleksandar Stamboliyski, Periyar E. V. Ramasamy, Joe Hill, Frederick Griffith, and Joseph Avenol. After him are Aimo Cajander, Hisaichi Terauchi, Kartini, Edward Steichen, Vladko Maček, and Johan Nygaardsvold. Among people deceased in 1951, Nikolai Medtner ranks 41. Before him are Robert J. Flaherty, Adam Stefan Sapieha, Andrei Platonov, Willem Mengelberg, Empress Teimei, and Princess Hélène of Orléans. After him are Ernst von Weizsäcker, Serge Koussevitzky, Sadegh Hedayat, Artur Schnabel, Volodymyr Vynnychenko, and Robert Grant Aitken.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikolai Medtner ranks 489 out of 3,761. Before him are Shamil Basayev (1965), Mehmed I Giray (1465), Bulat Okudzhava (1924), Khertek Anchimaa-Toka (1912), Elsa Triolet (1896), and Sergey Mikhalkov (1913). After him are Vera Zasulich (1849), Vasily Bartold (1869), Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev (1841), Prince Albert of Prussia (1809), Naina Yeltsina (1932), and Serge Koussevitzky (1874).

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Among COMPOSERS In Russia

Among composers born in Russia, Nikolai Medtner ranks 20. Before him are Alfred Schnittke (1934), Anton Arensky (1861), Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov (1883), Irving Berlin (1888), Sergei Taneyev (1856), and Anatoly Lyadov (1855). After him are Hans Pfitzner (1869), Alexander Dargomyzhsky (1813), Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov (1859), Gennady Rozhdestvensky (1931), Rodion Shchedrin (1932), and Vasily Kalinnikov (1866).

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