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Nikolay Diletsky

1630 - 1681

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Nikolay Diletsky (Russian: Николай Павлович Дилецкий, Nikolay Pavlovich Diletsky, Nikolai Diletskii, Polish: Mikołaj Dilecki, also Mikolaj Dylecki, Nikolai Dilezki, Ukrainian: Микола Дилецький, Mykola Dyletsky, etc.; c. 1630, Kiev – after 1680, Moscow) was a music theorist and composer born in the Kiev Voivodeship of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and active in Russia. He was widely influential in late 17th-century Russia with his treatise on musical composition, A Musical Grammar, of which the earliest surviving version dates from 1677. Diletsky's followers included the Russian composer Vasily Titov. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nikolay Diletsky is the 934th most popular composer (down from 818th in 2019), the 530th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 464th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Ukrainian Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Nikolay Diletsky ranks 934 out of 1,451. Before him are Antonio Bertali, Théodore Gouvy, Nicolas Slonimsky, Antoine Brumel, Francesco Manfredini, and Franz Tunder. After him are Victor Massé, Henri Sauguet, Philippe Gaubert, Hans von Koessler, Giovanni Animuccia, and Ignaz Schuppanzigh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1630, Nikolay Diletsky ranks 20. Before him are Sigismund Francis, Archduke of Austria, Maria van Oosterwijck, Roche Braziliano, Pierre Daniel Huet, Guru Har Rai, and Sophie Augusta of Holstein-Gottorp. After him are Cornelis Pietersz Bega, Jean Richer, Lorenzo Gafà, Silvestro Valier, Kaibara Ekken, and Lucy Walter. Among people deceased in 1681, Nikolay Diletsky ranks 16. Before him are Frans van Mieris the Elder, Hermann Conring, Maurice, Duke of Saxe-Zeitz, Frederick Louis, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Agafya Grushetskaya, and William Christoph, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg. After him are Oliver Plunkett, and Fatima Soltan.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Nikolay Diletsky ranks 530 out of 1,365. Before him are Vladimir Kozlov (1979), Valentina Grizodubova (1909), Maria Nikiforova (1885), Aleksei Kapler (1904), Yakov Malik (1906), and Alexander Beliavsky (1953). After him are Gabriela Zapolska (1857), Vladimir Megre (1950), Demyan Bedny (1883), Yozhef Sabo (1940), Lyubov Panchenko (1938), and Boris Yefimov (1900).

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Among COMPOSERS In Ukraine

Among composers born in Ukraine, Nikolay Diletsky ranks 19. Before him are Sergei Bortkiewicz (1877), Myroslav Skoryk (1938), Maxim Berezovsky (1745), Isaak Dunayevsky (1900), Ciprian Porumbescu (1853), and Alexander Spendiaryan (1871). After him are Alexander Mosolov (1900), Roman Vlad (1919), Igor Krutoy (1954), Heinrich Schenker (1868), Semen Hulak-Artemovsky (1813), and Yuri Shaporin (1887).

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