COMPOSER

Alexandre Tansman

1897 - 1986

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Alexander Tansman (Polish: Aleksander Tansman, French: Alexandre Tansman; 12 June 1897 – 15 November 1986) was a Polish composer, pianist and conductor who became a naturalized French citizen in 1938. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexandre Tansman has received more than 134,364 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Alexandre Tansman is the 507th most popular composer (down from 494th in 2019), the 423rd most popular biography from Poland (down from 382nd in 2019) and the 16th most popular Polish Composer.

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.81

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Alexandre Tansman ranks 507 out of 1,451. Before him are Guillaume Lekeu, Vasily Kalinnikov, Maddalena Casulana, Aleksandra Pakhmutova, Ethel Smyth, and Alexandre Desplat. After him are Princess Cecilia of Sweden, Peter Cornelius, Joachim Raff, Giuseppe Gazzaniga, Christian Sinding, and Alexandre Guilmant.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Alexandre Tansman ranks 101. Before him are Polina Zhemchuzhina, Fredric March, Bulbul, Olga Chekhova, Josep Pla, and Louis Réard. After him are George Szell, Otto Dietrich, John Bagot Glubb, Joseph Darnand, Karol Świerczewski, and Edmund Heines. Among people deceased in 1986, Alexandre Tansman ranks 73. Before him are Ernst Neufert, Maurice Duruflé, Lyudmila Rudenko, Sandro Puppo, Elio de Angelis, and Cheikh Anta Diop. After him are Emilio Fernández, J. Allen Hynek, André Leroi-Gourhan, Aleksandr Akimov, Hermann Gmeiner, and John Bagot Glubb.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Alexandre Tansman ranks 423 out of 1,694. Before him are Stanisław Przybyszewski (1868), Jan Tarnowski (1488), Ernst Niekisch (1889), Hedwig Jagiellon, Electress of Brandenburg (1513), Josef Hofmann (1876), and Walerian Borowczyk (1923). After him are Eleonore Reuss of Köstritz (1860), Vitello (1230), Jerzy Hoffman (1932), Sendivogius (1566), Uri Orlev (1931), and Anna Leszczyńska (1699).

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Among COMPOSERS In Poland

Among composers born in Poland, Alexandre Tansman ranks 16. Before him are Mieczysław Weinberg (1919), Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska (1834), Maria Szymanowska (1789), Józef Elsner (1769), Moritz Moszkowski (1854), and Johann Adam Hiller (1728). After him are Zbigniew Preisner (1955), Johann Gottlieb Goldberg (1727), Franz Waxman (1906), Johann Schobert (1720), Krzysztof Komeda (1931), and Karol Lipiński (1790).

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