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Alexander Alyabyev

1787 - 1851

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Alexander Aleksandrovich Alyabyev (Russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Аля́бьев; 15 August [O.S. 4 August] 1787 – 6 March [O.S. 22 February] 1851), also rendered as Alabiev or Alabieff, was a Russian composer known as one of the fathers of the Russian art song. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Alyabyev has received more than 64,828 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Alexander Alyabyev is the 810th most popular composer (down from 771st in 2019), the 1,129th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,012th in 2019) and the 38th most popular Russian Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Alexander Alyabyev ranks 810 out of 1,451Before him are Jean Guillou, Cornelius Gurlitt, Frank Bridge, Mykhailo Verbytskyi, Gaspar Cassadó, and Louis Andriessen. After him are Annibale Padovano, Jean-Henri d'Anglebert, Michel Blavet, Philippe de Monte, Pierre Attaingnant, and Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1787, Alexander Alyabyev ranks 31Before him are Konstantin Batyushkov, Pellegrino Rossi, Prince William of Hesse-Kassel, Mathieu Orfila, Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Hildburghausen, and Francisco de Paula Martínez de la Rosa y Berdejo. After him are Ninomiya Sontoku, Nils Gabriel Sefström, Michele Carafa, Ramón Freire, Sven Nilsson, and José María Bocanegra. Among people deceased in 1851, Alexander Alyabyev ranks 32Before him are Leopold, Prince of Salerno, Princess Maria Christina of Saxony, Horace François Bastien Sébastiani de La Porta, Stanko Vraz, Conrad Graf, and Göran Wahlenberg. After him are Carl Friedrich von Ledebour, Jean Guillaume Auguste Lugol, Ramón Freire, Marie Jules César Savigny, Leopold II, Prince of Lippe, and Manuel Gómez Pedraza.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Alyabyev ranks 1,129 out of 3,761Before him are Yakov Protazanov (1881), Dmitry Pisarev (1840), Svetlana Medvedeva (1965), Maksim Purkayev (1894), Vasily Golitsyn (1643), and Valery Ryumin (1939). After him are Serhiy Tkach (1952), Orest Kiprensky (1782), Natalia Molchanova (1962), Oleg Basilashvili (1934), Alexander Gomelsky (1928), and Mikhail Kovalyov (1897).

Among COMPOSERS In Russia

Among composers born in Russia, Alexander Alyabyev ranks 38Before him are Alexander Tcherepnin (1899), Edison Denisov (1929), Matvey Blanter (1903), Boris Asafyev (1884), Eduard Artemyev (1937), and Erkki Melartin (1875). After him are Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752), Muslim Magomayev (1885), Nikolai Tcherepnin (1873), Galina Ustvolskaya (1919), Hermann Goetz (1840), and Vissarion Shebalin (1902).