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Valentyn Sylvestrov

1937 - Today

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Valentyn Vasylyovych Sylvestrov (Ukrainian: Валенти́н Васи́льович Сильве́стров; born 30 September 1937) is a Ukrainian composer and pianist, who plays and writes contemporary classical music. Laureate of Shevchenko National Prize. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Valentyn Sylvestrov is the 285th most popular composer (up from 316th in 2019), the 139th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 173rd in 2019) and the 6th most popular Ukrainian Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Valentyn Sylvestrov ranks 285 out of 1,451Before him are Uzeyir Hajibeyov, György Kurtág, Hanns Eisler, Franz Xaver Gruber, Eduard Hanslick, and Anton Arensky. After him are Jacques Ibert, Reynaldo Hahn, Emmanuel Chabrier, Clemens Krauss, Princess Maria Antonia Koháry, and Ludwig Ritter von Köchel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Valentyn Sylvestrov ranks 67Before him are Ferdinand Piëch, Mario Capecchi, Tsukasa Hosaka, Fernando de la Rúa, Lionel Jospin, and Andrei Konchalovsky. After him are Thomas Pynchon, Paolo Conte, Roger Zelazny, Joseph Nye, Richard Møller Nielsen, and Anatoly Sobchak.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Valentyn Sylvestrov ranks 139 out of 1,365Before him are Vladimir Gelfand (1923), Nikolai Ryzhkov (1929), Gregory Skovoroda (1722), Vitold Fokin (1932), Boris Shcherbina (1919), and Pacatianus (200). After him are Nikolay Nekrasov (1821), Isaac Stern (1920), Ephraim Katzir (1916), Semion Mogilevich (1946), Jan Łukasiewicz (1878), and Euphrosyne of Kiev (1130).

Among COMPOSERS In Ukraine

Among composers born in Ukraine, Valentyn Sylvestrov ranks 6Before him are Sergei Prokofiev (1891), Stefania Turkewich (1898), Karol Szymanowski (1882), Reinhold Glière (1874), and Dmitry Bortniansky (1751). After him are Dimitri Tiomkin (1894), Wojciech Kilar (1932), Mykola Lysenko (1842), Boris Lyatoshinsky (1894), Igor Markevitch (1912), and Franz Doppler (1821).