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Nikolai Zaremba

1821 - 1879

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Nikolai or Nicolaus Ivanovich von Zaremba (Russian: Никола́й Ива́нович Заре́мба; 15 June [O.S. 3 June] 1821 – 8 April [O.S. 27 March] 1879) was a Russian musical theorist, teacher and composer. His most famous student was Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, who became his pupil in 1861. Others included Fyodor Dostoevsky's nephews, the children of his brother Mikhail and Vasily Safonov. Until 2010 almost nobody knew what he had composed. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nikolai Zaremba is the 993rd most popular composer (down from 873rd in 2019). (down from 2,742nd in 2019)

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Among composers, Nikolai Zaremba ranks 993 out of 1,451. Before him are Nicola Piovani, José Vianna da Motta, Ivan Galamian, Johann Joseph Abert, Ary Barroso, and Andreas Hammerschmidt. After him are Balys Dvarionas, Friedrich Silcher, Arthur Benjamin, Attilio Ariosti, Harrison Birtwistle, and Zacharia Paliashvili.

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Among people born in 1821, Nikolai Zaremba ranks 73. Before him are Georgi Sava Rakovski, John Abbott, James Longstreet, Carl Bolle, Nils Johan Andersson, and Antonio Ciseri. After him are Apollon Maykov, Archduke Friedrich of Austria, Janko Matúška, Friedrich Kiel, Heinrich Moritz Willkomm, and Henri Alexis Brialmont. Among people deceased in 1879, Nikolai Zaremba ranks 41. Before him are Jakob Dubs, Jean Baptiste Boisduval, Michel Chevalier, Begum Hazrat Mahal, Johann von Lamont, and Sergey Solovyov. After him are Marguerite Bays, Jeanne Jugan, Lyuben Karavelov, Aleksandr Baryatinsky, Miguel Grau Seminario, and Immanuel Hermann Fichte.

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