COMPOSER

Ciprian Porumbescu

1853 - 1883

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Ciprian Porumbescu (Romanian: [tʃipriˈan porumˈbesku]; born Cyprian Gołęmbiowski on 14 October 1853 – 6 June 1883) was a Romanian composer born in Șipotele Sucevei in Bucovina. He was among the most celebrated Romanian composers of his time; his popular works include Crai nou, Song of the Tricolour, Song for Spring, Ballad for violin and piano, and Serenada. In addition, he composed the music for the Romanian patriotic "Song of Unity", also known as "Pe-al nostru steag e scris Unire" ("On our flag is written Unity"), which was Romania's anthem from 1975 to 1977 and is currently used for Albania's national anthem, "Himni i Flamurit". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ciprian Porumbescu has received more than 191,253 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 23 in 2019). Ciprian Porumbescu is the 700th most popular composer (down from 621st in 2019), the 390th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 310th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Ukrainian Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Ciprian Porumbescu ranks 700 out of 1,451Before him are Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, Antoine Brumel, Josef Bohuslav Foerster, Nicolas-Charles Bochsa, Florian Leopold Gassmann, and Francisco Guerrero. After him are Alonso Mudarra, Joseph Jongen, Karol Lipiński, Antonio Rosetti, Franz Lachner, and Aloysia Weber.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1853, Ciprian Porumbescu ranks 49Before him are Pierre Paul Émile Roux, Alexius Meinong, Nikolai Kibalchich, Sarada Devi, Vladimir Kokovtsov, and Higaonna Kanryō. After him are Teresa Carreño, Antonio Maura, Ernst Otto Beckmann, Laurits Tuxen, Gabriel Hanotaux, and Frank Dicksee. Among people deceased in 1883, Ciprian Porumbescu ranks 43Before him are Filippo Pacini, Jenny Longuet, Louis-François-Clement Breguet, Gustave Aimard, Napoleon Orda, and Seru Epenisa Cakobau. After him are Dục Đức, Auguste Clésinger, Reinhart Dozy, Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse, Hiệp Hòa, and Yevfimiy Putyatin.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Ciprian Porumbescu ranks 390 out of 1,365Before him are Grigory Shtern (1900), Igor Ter-Ovanesyan (1938), Liya Akhedzhakova (1938), Georgy Voronoy (1868), Mikhail Rodzianko (1859), and Yevhen Petrushevych (1863). After him are Polina Astakhova (1936), Evgeny Lifshitz (1915), Anatoliy Bondarchuk (1940), Stanisław Maczek (1892), Anna Walentynowicz (1929), and John of Shanghai and San Francisco (1896).

Among COMPOSERS In Ukraine

Among composers born in Ukraine, Ciprian Porumbescu ranks 16Before him are Igor Markevitch (1912), Boris Lyatoshinsky (1894), Maxim Berezovsky (1745), Franz Doppler (1821), Myroslav Skoryk (1938), and Sergei Bortkiewicz (1877). After him are Alexander Spendiaryan (1871), Emil Paur (1855), Isaak Dunayevsky (1900), Nikolay Diletsky (1630), Alexander Mosolov (1900), and Yuri Shaporin (1887).