COMPOSER

Andrzej Panufnik

1914 - 1991

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Sir Andrzej Panufnik (pronounced: [ˈand͡ʐɛj paˈnufnik]; 24 September 1914 – 27 October 1991) was a Polish composer and conductor. He became established as one of the leading Polish composers, and as a conductor he was instrumental in the re-establishment of the Warsaw Philharmonic orchestra after World War II. He also served as Principal Conductor of the Kraków Philharmonic Orchestra. After his increasing frustration with the extra-musical demands made on him by the country's regime, he defected to the United Kingdom in 1954, and took up British citizenship. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Andrzej Panufnik has received more than 136,221 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Andrzej Panufnik is the 777th most popular composer (up from 817th in 2019), the 648th most popular biography from Poland (up from 654th in 2019) and the 25th most popular Polish Composer.

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.97

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  • 2.62

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Andrzej Panufnik ranks 777 out of 1,451. Before him are Tyagaraja, Joseph Weigl, Claudin de Sermisy, Gaetano Pugnani, Felip Pedrell, and George Onslow. After him are Johann Gottlieb Graun, Eduard Artemyev, Lee Konitz, Wilhelm Kienzl, Claude Le Jeune, and Erkki Melartin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Andrzej Panufnik ranks 158. Before him are Baba Amte, Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin, Jersey Joe Walcott, Howard Fast, Alfred Andersch, and Taizo Kawamoto. After him are Gretel Bergmann, Max Wünsche, Viola Desmond, Adolf Diekmann, Sarla Thakral, and Norman McLaren. Among people deceased in 1991, Andrzej Panufnik ranks 107. Before him are Franco Maria Malfatti, Metin Oktay, Hitoshi Igarashi, Mario Scelba, Dead, and Rufino Tamayo. After him are Amadou Hampâté Bâ, Nicholas Poppe, Miodrag Bulatović, Abderrahmane Farès, Billy Vaughn, and Gloria Holden.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Andrzej Panufnik ranks 648 out of 1,694. Before him are Alfred Kerr (1867), Julian Marchlewski (1866), Hanna Suchocka (1946), Sophia Jagiellon, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1522), Karl Decker (1897), and Kurt Sanderling (1912). After him are Julian Fontana (1810), Duchess Frederica of Württemberg (1765), Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski (1595), C. L. Gloger (1803), Aaron Kosminski (1865), and Władysław Żmuda (1954).

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Among COMPOSERS In Poland

Among composers born in Poland, Andrzej Panufnik ranks 25. Before him are Franz Waxman (1906), Johann Schobert (1720), Krzysztof Komeda (1931), Karol Lipiński (1790), Wolfgang Schmieder (1901), and Josef Tal (1910). After him are Mykhailo Verbytskyi (1815), Carl Schuricht (1880), Arnold Mendelssohn (1855), Józef Kozłowski (1757), Salomon Jadassohn (1831), and Zygmunt Noskowski (1846).

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