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Aulis Sallinen

1935 - Today

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Aulis Heikki Sallinen (born 9 April 1935) is a Finnish contemporary classical music composer. His music has been variously described as "remorselessly harsh", a "beautifully crafted amalgam of several 20th-century styles", and "neo-romantic". Sallinen studied at the Sibelius Academy, where his teachers included Joonas Kokkonen. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Aulis Sallinen has received more than 87,560 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Aulis Sallinen is the 1,023rd most popular composer (down from 983rd in 2019), the 1,474th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,330th in 2019) and the 47th most popular Russian Composer.

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  • 88k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.91

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.15

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Aulis Sallinen ranks 1,023 out of 1,451. Before him are Brian Ferneyhough, Julius Reubke, Nikolai Roslavets, Lorenzo Perosi, Andreas Hammerschmidt, and Yuri Shaporin. After him are Richard Addinsell, Karen Khachaturian, Robert Gerhard, Vasily Safonov, Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, and Daniel Gottlob Türk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Aulis Sallinen ranks 269. Before him are Syd Field, Semka Sokolović-Bertok, Johnny Pacheco, Sergei Yursky, Simon Leys, and Dragan Tomić. After him are Grant Green, Christina Pickles, Ryhor Baradulin, Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi, Tarcísio Meira, and Brian G. Hutton.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Aulis Sallinen ranks 1,474 out of 3,761. Before him are Sergei Yursky (1935), Pyotr Vyazemsky (1792), Anatoly Pepelyayev (1891), Yury of Zvenigorod (1374), Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev (1908), and Ivan Shmelyov (1873). After him are Aleksey Krylov (1863), Dmitry Senyavin (1763), Karen Khachaturian (1920), Aleksandra Chudina (1923), Elsa Brändström (1888), and Andrey Lukanov (1938).

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Among COMPOSERS In Russia

Among composers born in Russia, Aulis Sallinen ranks 47. Before him are Nikolai Tcherepnin (1873), Galina Ustvolskaya (1919), Hermann Goetz (1840), Vissarion Shebalin (1902), Ivan Larionov (1830), and Nikolai Roslavets (1881). After him are Karen Khachaturian (1920), Alexander Serov (1820), Sergei Vasilenko (1872), Nicolas Slonimsky (1894), Valeri Brainin (1948), and Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov (1936).

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