1884 - 1949
Boris Vladimirovich Asafyev (Russian: Бори́с Влади́мирович Аса́фьев; 29 July [O.S. 17 July] 1884 – 27 January 1949) 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 45,440 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Boris Asafyev is the 681st most popular composer (down from 591st in 2019), the 916th most popular biography from Russia (down from 737th in 2019) and the 31st most popular Russian Composer.
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Among composers, Boris Asafyev ranks 681 out of 1,216. Before him are Giuseppe Sammartini, Eduardo di Capua, André Messager, Isang Yun, Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, and Sergei Bortkiewicz. After him are Gaspar Cassadó, Sigfrid Karg-Elert, Boris Blacher, Jakov Gotovac, Oskar Nedbal, and Alonso Mudarra.
1695 - 1750
HPI: 53.36
Rank: 675
1865 - 1917
HPI: 53.36
Rank: 676
1853 - 1929
HPI: 53.36
Rank: 677
1917 - 1995
HPI: 53.35
Rank: 678
1656 - 1746
HPI: 53.35
Rank: 679
1877 - 1952
HPI: 53.31
Rank: 680
1884 - 1949
HPI: 53.31
Rank: 681
1897 - 1966
HPI: 53.29
Rank: 682
1877 - 1933
HPI: 53.29
Rank: 683
1903 - 1975
HPI: 53.28
Rank: 684
1895 - 1982
HPI: 53.28
Rank: 685
1874 - 1930
HPI: 53.24
Rank: 686
1510 - 1580
HPI: 53.24
Rank: 687
Among people born in 1884, Boris Asafyev ranks 84. Before him are Ferdinand von Bredow, Werner Krauss, Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter, Philipp Frank, Tanzan Ishibashi, and Marcel Granet. After him are Gustave Garrigou, Claude Auchinleck, Helene Deutsch, Johannes Popitz, Jules Supervielle, and Jaan Anvelt. Among people deceased in 1949, Boris Asafyev ranks 75. Before him are Koçi Xoxe, Lead Belly, Martin Knudsen, Damaskinos of Athens, James Forrestal, and Tan Malaka. After him are Momčilo Tapavica, Traicho Kostov, Alfred J. Lotka, Othon Friesz, Josep Maria Jujol, and Henri Rabaud.
1884 - 1934
HPI: 54.06
Rank: 78
1884 - 1959
HPI: 54.01
Rank: 79
1884 - 1923
HPI: 53.97
Rank: 80
1884 - 1966
HPI: 53.79
Rank: 81
1884 - 1973
HPI: 53.79
Rank: 82
1884 - 1940
HPI: 53.35
Rank: 83
1884 - 1949
HPI: 53.31
Rank: 84
1884 - 1963
HPI: 53.22
Rank: 85
1884 - 1981
HPI: 52.80
Rank: 86
1884 - 1982
HPI: 52.68
Rank: 87
1884 - 1945
HPI: 52.66
Rank: 88
1884 - 1960
HPI: 52.61
Rank: 89
1884 - 1937
HPI: 52.44
Rank: 90
1911 - 1949
HPI: 53.65
Rank: 69
1888 - 1949
HPI: 53.63
Rank: 70
1871 - 1949
HPI: 53.58
Rank: 71
1891 - 1949
HPI: 53.40
Rank: 72
1892 - 1949
HPI: 53.39
Rank: 73
1897 - 1949
HPI: 53.33
Rank: 74
1884 - 1949
HPI: 53.31
Rank: 75
1872 - 1949
HPI: 53.24
Rank: 76
1897 - 1949
HPI: 53.01
Rank: 77
1880 - 1949
HPI: 52.93
Rank: 78
1879 - 1949
HPI: 52.67
Rank: 79
1879 - 1949
HPI: 52.63
Rank: 80
1873 - 1949
HPI: 52.62
Rank: 81
Among people born in Russia, Boris Asafyev ranks 916 out of 3,262. Before him are Anatoly Solonitsyn (1934), Oleg Deripaska (1968), Pyotr Bolotnikov (1930), Sergey Aksakov (1791), Vladimir Sofronitsky (1901), and Viktor Savinykh (1940). After him are Grigori Aleksandrov (1903), Yury Yakovlev (1928), Ivan Vinogradov (1891), Prince Constantine Constantinovich of Russia (1891), Vladimir Kramnik (1975), and Nikolai Tcherepnin (1873).
1934 - 1982
HPI: 53.33
Rank: 910
1968 - Present
HPI: 53.33
Rank: 911
1930 - 2013
HPI: 53.31
Rank: 912
1791 - 1859
HPI: 53.31
Rank: 913
1901 - 1961
HPI: 53.31
Rank: 914
1940 - Present
HPI: 53.31
Rank: 915
1884 - 1949
HPI: 53.31
Rank: 916
1903 - 1983
HPI: 53.30
Rank: 917
1928 - 2013
HPI: 53.28
Rank: 918
1891 - 1983
HPI: 53.28
Rank: 919
1891 - 1918
HPI: 53.25
Rank: 920
1975 - Present
HPI: 53.25
Rank: 921
1873 - 1945
HPI: 53.23
Rank: 922
Among composers born in Russia, Boris Asafyev ranks 31. Before him are Gennady Rozhdestvensky (1931), Georgy Sviridov (1915), Sergei Lyapunov (1859), Alexander Gretchaninov (1864), Tikhon Khrennikov (1913), and Edison Denisov (1929). After him are Nikolai Tcherepnin (1873), Aleksandra Pakhmutova (1929), Muslim Magomayev (1885), Matvey Blanter (1903), Alexander Alyabyev (1787), and Alexander Tcherepnin (1899).
1931 - 2018
HPI: 55.65
Rank: 25
1915 - 1998
HPI: 55.16
Rank: 26
1859 - 1924
HPI: 55.10
Rank: 27
1864 - 1956
HPI: 54.76
Rank: 28
1913 - 2007
HPI: 54.25
Rank: 29
1929 - 1996
HPI: 53.90
Rank: 30
1884 - 1949
HPI: 53.31
Rank: 31
1873 - 1945
HPI: 53.23
Rank: 32
1929 - Present
HPI: 53.19
Rank: 33
1885 - 1937
HPI: 52.71
Rank: 34
1903 - 1990
HPI: 52.37
Rank: 35
1787 - 1851
HPI: 52.13
Rank: 36
1899 - 1977
HPI: 51.97
Rank: 37