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Stefania Turkewich

1898 - 1977

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Stefania Turkewich-Lukianovych (25 April 1898 – 8 April 1977), also spelled Turkevycz and Turkevich, was a Ukrainian composer, pianist, and musicologist. She is recognized as Ukraine's first woman composer. In the USSR , her works were banned by the state authorities. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Stefania Turkewich is the 50th most popular composer (up from 71st in 2019), the 10th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 22nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Ukrainian Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Stefania Turkewich ranks 50 out of 1,451. Before her are Jean-Baptiste Lully, Orlande de Lassus, Tomaso Albinoni, Modest Mussorgsky, Anton Bruckner, and Guido of Arezzo. After her are Vincenzo Bellini, Arnold Schoenberg, Edward Elgar, Georg Philipp Telemann, Aram Khachaturian, and Carl Maria von Weber.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Stefania Turkewich ranks 9. Before her are Erich Maria Remarque, Alvar Aalto, Federico García Lorca, Enzo Ferrari, Sergei Eisenstein, and René Magritte. After her are Umm Kulthum, Zhou Enlai, Leo Szilard, William James Sidis, M. C. Escher, and Albert Lutuli. Among people deceased in 1977, Stefania Turkewich ranks 6. Before her are Charlie Chaplin, Elvis Presley, Maria Callas, Edgar Adrian, and Vladimir Nabokov. After her are Wernher von Braun, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Clementine Churchill, Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, Ludwig Erhard, and René Goscinny.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Stefania Turkewich ranks 10 out of 1,365. Before her are Nikolai Gogol (1809), Golda Meir (1898), Edgar de Wahl (1867), Sergei Prokofiev (1891), Viktor Yanukovych (1950), and John III Sobieski (1629). After her are Stepan Bandera (1909), Volodymyr Zelensky (1978), Kazimir Malevich (1879), Bohdan Khmelnytsky (1595), Mikhail Bulgakov (1891), and Ilya Repin (1844).

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Among COMPOSERS In Ukraine

Among composers born in Ukraine, Stefania Turkewich ranks 2. Before her are Sergei Prokofiev (1891). After her are Karol Szymanowski (1882), Reinhold Glière (1874), Dmitry Bortniansky (1751), Valentyn Sylvestrov (1937), Dimitri Tiomkin (1894), Wojciech Kilar (1932), Mykola Lysenko (1842), Boris Lyatoshinsky (1894), Igor Markevitch (1912), and Franz Doppler (1821).

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