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Nikolai Rubinstein

1835 - 1881

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Nikolai Grigoryevich Rubinstein (Russian: Николай Григорьевич Рубинштейн; 14 June [O.S. 2 June] 1835 – 23 March [O.S. 11 March] 1881) was a Russian pianist, conductor, and composer. He was the younger brother of Anton Rubinstein and a close friend of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nikolai Rubinstein is the 223rd most popular musician (down from 203rd in 2019), the 339th most popular biography from Russia (up from 353rd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Russian Musician.

Nikolai Rubinstein is most famous for being a pianist and the first husband of composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

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Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Nikolai Rubinstein ranks 223 out of 3,175. Before him are David A. Stewart, Ronnie Wood, Caetano Veloso, Gidon Kremer, Alicia Keys, and Clara Haskil. After him are Leslie Cheung, Don Cherry, Lucio Dalla, Stéphane Grappelli, Ahmet Ertegun, and Nam June Paik.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, Nikolai Rubinstein ranks 20. Before him are Henryk Wieniawski, César Cui, Eduard Strauss, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Fukuzawa Yukichi, and William Stanley Jevons. After him are Alexander Agassiz, Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern, Hijikata Toshizō, John La Farge, Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova, and Adolph Wagner. Among people deceased in 1881, Nikolai Rubinstein ranks 15. Before him are Louis Auguste Blanqui, Thomas Carlyle, Jenny von Westphalen, Henri Vieuxtemps, Auguste Mariette, and Caroline Amalie of Augustenburg. After him are Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Empress Dowager Ci'an, Nikolay Pirogov, Theobald Boehm, Hermann Lotze, and George W. De Long.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikolai Rubinstein ranks 339 out of 3,761. Before him are Sergey Ilyushin (1894), Nikolai Trubetzkoy (1890), Nicholas Alexandrovich, Tsesarevich of Russia (1843), Valery Leontiev (1949), Kirill Meretskov (1897), and Henri Troyat (1911). After him are Lyudmila Ulitskaya (1943), Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1933), Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich of Russia (1554), Mikhail Khodorkovsky (1963), Michael Chekhov (1891), and George Ostrogorsky (1902).

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Among MUSICIANS In Russia

Among musicians born in Russia, Nikolai Rubinstein ranks 3. Before him are Alexander Glazunov (1865), and Vladimir Ashkenazy (1937). After him are Grigory Sokolov (1950), Valery Gergiev (1953), Mikhail Pletnev (1957), Vladimir Sofronitsky (1901), Edgar Froese (1944), Maxim Shostakovich (1938), Maria Yudina (1899), Rudolf Barshai (1924), and Lev Oborin (1907).

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