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Balys Dvarionas

1904 - 1972

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Balys Dvarionas (19 June [O.S. 6 June] 1904 – 23 August 1972) was a Soviet and Lithuanian composer, pianist, conductor, and educator. Dvarionas first became known as a composer after World War II. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Balys Dvarionas has received more than 35,113 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Balys Dvarionas is the 1,011th most popular composer (down from 971st in 2019), the 110th most popular biography from Latvia (down from 105th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Latvian Composer.

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  • 35k

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  • 57.12

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.04

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Balys Dvarionas ranks 1,011 out of 1,451. Before him are Hamilton Harty, Édouard Colonne, Alessandro Grandi, Gottfried August Homilius, Rebecca Clarke, and Percy Faith. After him are Paul Taffanel, Adolf Fredrik Lindblad, Emil von Sauer, Victor Massé, Knut Nystedt, and Brian Ferneyhough.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Balys Dvarionas ranks 198. Before him are Henry Russell, Ladislav Ženíšek, Clarence Nash, Kenneth Bainbridge, Grete Stern, and Edgar G. Ulmer. After him are Valentín González, Lili Damita, Richard Addinsell, Bozorg Alavi, Giancarlo Cornaggia-Medici, and Shunryū Suzuki. Among people deceased in 1972, Balys Dvarionas ranks 145. Before him are Gottfried Fuchs, Marianne Moore, Louis J. Mordell, Hermann Boehm, Vera Inber, and Edgar G. Ulmer. After him are Max Fleischer, Erwin Stresemann, Vera Karalli, Markos Vamvakaris, Bernabé Ferreyra, and Romas Kalanta.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Balys Dvarionas ranks 110 out of 323. Before him are Alexander von Keyserling (1815), Morris Halle (1923), Hans-Diedrich von Tiesenhausen (1913), Johann Gerhard König (1728), Jānis Krūmiņš (1930), and Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer (1829). After him are Walter Zapp (1905), Duchess Elisabeth Alexandrine of Württemberg (1802), Georg August Schweinfurth (1836), Eduard Tisse (1897), Zenta Mauriņa (1897), and Vitas (1979).

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Among COMPOSERS In Latvia

Among composers born in Latvia, Balys Dvarionas ranks 3. Before him are Raimonds Pauls (1936), and Pēteris Vasks (1946). After him are Jāzeps Vītols (1863), Jānis Ivanovs (1906), Emīls Dārziņš (1875), Alfrēds Kalniņš (1879), and Ēriks Ešenvalds (1977).

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