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Stanisław Moniuszko

1819 - 1872

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Stanisław Moniuszko (Polish: [stãˈɲiswaf mɔ̃ˈɲuʃkɔ] ; May 5 (17), 1819 – June 4, 1872) was a Polish composer, conductor, organist and pedagogue. He wrote many popular art songs and operas, including The Haunted Manor and Halka, and his music is filled with patriotic folk themes of the peoples of the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (mainly Poles, Lithuanians and Belarusians). He is generally referred to as "the father of Polish national opera". Since the 1990s Stanisław Moniuszko has been recognized in Belarus as an important figure to Belarusian culture as well. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Stanisław Moniuszko is the 193rd most popular composer (up from 236th in 2019), the 16th most popular biography from Belarus (up from 25th in 2019) and the most popular Belarusian Composer.

Stanisław Moniuszko is most famous for his operas. He was a Polish composer who wrote the operas Halka, The Haunted Manor, and The Countess.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Stanisław Moniuszko ranks 193 out of 1,451. Before him are Louis Spohr, Ferruccio Busoni, Amilcare Ponchielli, Johann Adolph Hasse, Giovanni Bononcini, and Dmitry Kabalevsky. After him are Samuel Barber, Michael Praetorius, Niccolò Piccinni, Jan Dismas Zelenka, Luigi Nono, and Charles-Marie Widor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1819, Stanisław Moniuszko ranks 19. Before him are John Couch Adams, John Ruskin, Franz von Suppé, George Eliot, Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, and Annibale de Gasparis. After him are George V of Hanover, William T. G. Morton, Theodor Fontane, Gottfried Keller, Cyrus West Field, and Théodore Chassériau. Among people deceased in 1872, Stanisław Moniuszko ranks 9. Before him are Princess Sophie of Bavaria, Charles XV of Sweden, Giuseppe Mazzini, William John Macquorn Rankine, Théophile Gautier, and Benito Juárez. After him are N. F. S. Grundtvig, Franz Grillparzer, George Robert Gray, Aleksis Kivi, William Webb Ellis, and Ljudevit Gaj.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Stanisław Moniuszko ranks 16 out of 368. Before him are Stanisław August Poniatowski (1732), Simon Kuznets (1901), Chaim Soutine (1893), Meyer Lansky (1902), Sviatopolk I of Kiev (978), and Olga Korbut (1955). After him are Ryszard Kapuściński (1932), Zalman Shazar (1889), Yanka Kupala (1882), Léon Bakst (1866), Ossip Zadkine (1888), and Isser Harel (1912).

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Among COMPOSERS In Belarus

Among composers born in Belarus, Stanisław Moniuszko ranks 1. After him are Mieczysław Karłowicz (1876).

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