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Vasyl Barvinsky

1888 - 1963

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Vasyl Oleksandrovych Barvinsky (Ukrainian: Василь Олександрович Барвінський) (20 February 1888 – 9 June 1963) was a Ukrainian composer, pianist, conductor, teacher, musicologist, and music related social figure. Barvinsky was one of the first Ukrainian composers to gain worldwide recognition. His pieces were published not only in the Soviet Union, but also in Vienna, Leipzig, New York (Universal Edition), and Japan. Barvinsky directed a post-secondary musical institution in the city of Lviv (1915-1948) the Lysenko Higher Institute of Music, and was considered to be the head of musical life at the time. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vasyl Barvinsky is the 1,137th most popular composer (up from 1,142nd in 2019), the 706th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 735th in 2019) and the 28th most popular Ukrainian Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Vasyl Barvinsky ranks 1,137 out of 1,451. Before him are Oskar Sala, Julius Benedict, Bruno Coulais, Fumio Hayasaka, Jean Gilbert, and Arif Malikov. After him are Yevhen Stankovych, Ahmet Adnan Saygun, Manolis Kalomiris, Percy Grainger, Nikolaos Mantzaros, and Ludvig Norman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Vasyl Barvinsky ranks 188. Before him are Adam Zamenhof, Tom Phillips, Kiichiro Higuchi, Paul Niggli, Fritz Schäffer, and Walther von Wartburg. After him are Kārlis Zāle, Albert Kluyver, Martin Benka, Dan Andersson, Charles Winslow, and Dora Gabe. Among people deceased in 1963, Vasyl Barvinsky ranks 150. Before him are Ulises Saucedo, Josef Gauchel, Arthur Jonath, Donald Piper, Ivan Brown, and Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed. After him are Charles Winslow, Pingali Venkayya, Luo Ronghuan, David Keilin, Boris Kostić, and Dorothy Hansine Andersen.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Vasyl Barvinsky ranks 706 out of 1,365. Before him are Natalya Meklin (1922), Volodymyr Ivanovych Barvinok (1879), Sviatoslav III of Kiev (null), Denis Pushilin (1981), Dmitry Polyansky (1917), and Weegee (1899). After him are Oleg Goncharenko (1931), Yevhen Stankovych (1942), Michael Levytsky (1774), Arkhip Lyulka (1908), Dmytro Pavlychko (1929), and Anatoly Artsebarsky (1956).

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Among COMPOSERS In Ukraine

Among composers born in Ukraine, Vasyl Barvinsky ranks 28. Before him are Igor Krutoy (1954), Heinrich Schenker (1868), Semen Hulak-Artemovsky (1813), Yuri Shaporin (1887), Leo Ornstein (1895), and Emil Paur (1855). After him are Yevhen Stankovych (1942), Vladimir Shainsky (1925), Isaac Schwartz (1923), Alla Zahaikevych (1966), and Edvin Marton (1974).

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