COMPOSER

Boris Asafyev

1884 - 1949

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Boris Vladimirovich Asafyev (29 July [O.S. 17 July] 1884 – 27 January 1949; also known by pseudonym Igor Glebov) was a Russian and Soviet composer, writer, musicologist, musical critic and one of founders of Soviet musicology. He is the dedicatee of Prokofiev's First Symphony. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Boris Asafyev has received more than 49,945 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 29 in 2019). Boris Asafyev is the 756th most popular composer (down from 680th in 2019), the 1,068th most popular biography from Russia (down from 914th in 2019) and the 35th most popular Russian Composer.

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  • 59.69

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.36

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Boris Asafyev ranks 756 out of 1,451. Before him are Carlos Seixas, Juan Bautista Cabanilles, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Johann Baptist Cramer, Gabriel Yared, and Luis de Narváez. After him are Giacomo Antonio Perti, Norbert Burgmüller, Johann Melchior Molter, Giovanni Animuccia, Arnold Bax, and Maurice Emmanuel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Boris Asafyev ranks 95. Before him are James Alberione, Claude Auchinleck, Wilhelm Brückner, Johannes Popitz, Constantin Constantinescu-Claps, and Enrico Dante. After him are Pedro Pablo Ramírez, Daniel Varoujan, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, George David Birkhoff, and Félix Éboué. Among people deceased in 1949, Boris Asafyev ranks 86. Before him are Infanta Blanca of Spain, Lead Belly, Amadeo Giannini, James Forrestal, Vyacheslav Ivanov, and Kanji Ishiwara. After him are Tan Malaka, Otto Nerz, Martin Knudsen, Alfred J. Lotka, Jankel Adler, and Douglas Hyde.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Boris Asafyev ranks 1,068 out of 3,761. Before him are Viktor Zolotov (1954), Joseph M. Schenck (1876), Fyodor Apraksin (1661), Natalya Estemirova (1958), Ludmila Savelyeva (1942), and Elena Mukhina (1960). After him are Yuliya Solntseva (1901), Venedikt Yerofeyev (1938), Mstislav III of Kiev (1150), Nikolay Kamov (1902), Lev Rubinstein (1947), and Prince Gabriel Constantinovich of Russia (1887).

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Among COMPOSERS In Russia

Among composers born in Russia, Boris Asafyev ranks 35. Before him are Tikhon Khrennikov (1913), Alexander Gretchaninov (1864), Sergei Lyapunov (1859), Alexander Tcherepnin (1899), Edison Denisov (1929), and Matvey Blanter (1903). After him are Eduard Artemyev (1937), Erkki Melartin (1875), Alexander Alyabyev (1787), Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752), Muslim Magomayev (1885), and Nikolai Tcherepnin (1873).

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