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Nikolai Myaskovsky

1881 - 1950

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Nikolai Yakovlevich Myaskovsky (Russian: Никола́й Я́ковлевич Мяско́вский; Polish: Mikołaj Miąskowski; 20 April 1881 – 8 August 1950), was a Russian and Soviet composer. He is sometimes referred to as the "Father of the Soviet Symphony". Myaskovsky was awarded the Stalin Prize five times. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nikolai Myaskovsky is the 320th most popular composer (down from 303rd in 2019), the 258th most popular biography from Poland (down from 257th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Polish Composer.

Nikolai Myaskovsky is most famous for his work in the field of 20th century classical music. He was a Russian composer who was born in 1881 and died in 1950.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Nikolai Myaskovsky ranks 320 out of 1,451. Before him are Charles Ives, Thomas Tallis, Pietro Della Valle, Georges Auric, Johann Georg Pisendel, and Moritz Moszkowski. After him are Sigismond Thalberg, Johan Halvorsen, Alberto Ginastera, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Sylvius Leopold Weiss, and Alan Silvestri.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Nikolai Myaskovsky ranks 54. Before him are Sveinn Björnsson, Emil Ludwig, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, Lewis Fry Richardson, P. G. Wodehouse, and Artur Phleps. After him are Ludwig Binswanger, Hakaru Hashimoto, Kim Kyu-sik, Giovanni Papini, Franz Gürtner, and Victor Klemperer. Among people deceased in 1950, Nikolai Myaskovsky ranks 33. Before him are Cesare Pavese, Max Beckmann, Kuniaki Koiso, Ryuzo Shimizu, Emil Abderhalden, and Petre Dumitrescu. After him are Dinu Lipatti, Mao Anying, John Rabe, Emmanuel Mounier, Werner Haase, and Kim Kyu-sik.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Nikolai Myaskovsky ranks 258 out of 1,694. Before him are Akiba Rubinstein (1880), Tadeusz Mazowiecki (1927), Itzhak Stern (1901), Johannes Zukertort (1842), Hagen Kleinert (1941), and Moritz Moszkowski (1854). After him are Agnieszka Holland (1948), Hermann Schwarz (1843), Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1687), Hugo Münsterberg (1863), Jan Długosz (1415), and Jerzy Kukuczka (1948).

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Among COMPOSERS In Poland

Among composers born in Poland, Nikolai Myaskovsky ranks 7. Before him are Frédéric Chopin (1810), Krzysztof Penderecki (1933), Witold Lutosławski (1913), Henryk Górecki (1933), Martin Agricola (1486), and Moritz Moszkowski (1854). After him are Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1687), Maria Szymanowska (1789), Mieczysław Weinberg (1919), Grażyna Bacewicz (1909), Viktor Ullmann (1898), and Józef Elsner (1769).

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