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Alexander Glazunov

1865 - 1936

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Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov (10 August [O.S. 29 July] 1865 – 21 March 1936) was a Russian composer, music teacher, and conductor of the late Russian Romantic period. He was director of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory between 1905 and 1928 and was instrumental in the reorganization of the institute into the Petrograd Conservatory, then the Leningrad Conservatory, following the Bolshevik Revolution. He continued as head of the Conservatory until 1930, though he had left the Soviet Union in 1928 and did not return. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Glazunov has received more than 497,809 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Alexander Glazunov is the 33rd most popular musician (up from 73rd in 2019), the 98th most popular biography from Russia (up from 152nd in 2019) and the most popular Russian Musician.

Alexander Glazunov is most famous for his compositions.

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  • 500k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 70.62

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 53

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 12.88

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.59

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Alexander Glazunov ranks 33 out of 3,175. Before him are Scatman John, Brian May, Roger Waters, Maurice Gibb, Arthur Rubinstein, and Pete Townshend. After him are Frank Zappa, Keith Richards, Giuseppe Tartini, Sting, David Gilmour, and Brian Wilson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1865, Alexander Glazunov ranks 6. Before him are Jean Sibelius, Rudyard Kipling, George V, Pieter Zeeman, and Erich Ludendorff. After him are Archduke Otto of Austria, Warren G. Harding, Suzanne Valadon, Ferdinand I of Romania, Arthur Harden, and W. B. Yeats. Among people deceased in 1936, Alexander Glazunov ranks 10. Before him are Rudyard Kipling, George V, Luigi Pirandello, Antoine Meillet, Lu Xun, and Oswald Spengler. After him are Lev Kamenev, Ferdinand Tönnies, Grigory Zinoviev, Fuad I of Egypt, Grazia Deledda, and Eleftherios Venizelos.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Glazunov ranks 98 out of 3,761. Before him are Svetlana Alliluyeva (1926), Mikhail Kalinin (1875), Alexis of Russia (1629), Nikolai Bukharin (1888), Ivan VI of Russia (1740), and Ivan Konev (1897). After him are Lev Kamenev (1883), Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850), Alexander Alekhine (1892), Mikhail Tukhachevsky (1893), Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857), and Nadezhda Krupskaya (1869).

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Among MUSICIANS In Russia

Among musicians born in Russia, Alexander Glazunov ranks 1. After him are Vladimir Ashkenazy (1937), Nikolai Rubinstein (1835), Grigory Sokolov (1950), Valery Gergiev (1953), Maria Yudina (1899), Lazar Berman (1930), Edgar Froese (1944), Evgeny Kissin (1971), Maxim Shostakovich (1938), Vladimir Sofronitsky (1901), and Mikhail Pletnev (1957).

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