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Otto Nicolai

1810 - 1849

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Carl Otto Ehrenfried Nicolai (9 June 1810 – 11 May 1849) was a German composer, conductor, and one of the founders of the Vienna Philharmonic. Nicolai is best known for his operatic version of Shakespeare's comedy The Merry Wives of Windsor as Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor. In addition to five operas, Nicolai composed lieder, works for orchestra, chorus, ensemble, and solo instruments. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Otto Nicolai is the 242nd most popular composer (up from 247th in 2019), the 299th most popular biography from Russia (up from 348th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Russian Composer.

Otto Nicolai was a German composer who is most famous for composing the opera "The Merry Wives of Windsor" in 1849.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Otto Nicolai ranks 242 out of 1,451. Before him are Angelo Badalamenti, Albert Roussel, Engelbert Humperdinck, Mykola Leontovych, Marcel Dupré, and Giacomo Carissimi. After him are Pietro Locatelli, Alessandro Marcello, Jacques Arcadelt, Gaspare Spontini, Jerry Goldsmith, and Carl Friedrich Abel.

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Among people born in 1810, Otto Nicolai ranks 14. Before him are Theodor Schwann, Howard Staunton, Alfred de Musset, Alexandre Colonna-Walewski, Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet, and Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans. After him are Ernst Kummer, Fanny Elssler, Henri Victor Regnault, Auguste, Duke of Leuchtenberg, Karl Richard Lepsius, and William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong. Among people deceased in 1849, Otto Nicolai ranks 18. Before him are Charles Albert of Sardinia, René Lesson, Şehzade Abdullah, Heonjong of Joseon, Anita Garibaldi, and Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti. After him are Juliette Récamier, Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, William Miller, Juliusz Słowacki, Lajos Batthyány, and Stephan Endlicher.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Otto Nicolai ranks 299 out of 3,761. Before him are Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz (1843), Natalya Naryshkina (1651), Varlam Shalamov (1907), Andrey Markov (1856), Georgy Chicherin (1872), and Nikita Mikhalkov (1945). After him are Mikhail Mishustin (1966), Tamara Karsavina (1885), Aleksandr Lyapunov (1857), Chung Il-kwon (1917), Roman Abramovich (1966), and Boris Nemtsov (1959).

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Among COMPOSERS In Russia

Among composers born in Russia, Otto Nicolai ranks 13. Before him are Alexander Borodin (1833), Alexander Scriabin (1871), Mikhail Glinka (1804), Mily Balakirev (1837), Sofia Gubaidulina (1931), and Dmitry Kabalevsky (1904). After him are Alfred Schnittke (1934), Anton Arensky (1861), Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov (1883), Irving Berlin (1888), Sergei Taneyev (1856), and Anatoly Lyadov (1855).

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