COMPOSER

César Cui

1835 - 1918

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César Antonovich Cui (Russian: Цезарь Антонович Кюи, romanized: Tsezar Antonovich Kyui; IPA: [ˈt͡sjezərʲ ɐnˈtonəvʲɪt͡ɕ kʲʊˈi] ; French: Cesarius Benjaminus Cui; 18 January [O.S. 6 January] 1835 – 26 March 1918) was a Russian composer and music critic, member of the Belyayev circle and The Five – a group of composers combined by the idea of creating a specifically Russian type of music. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of César Cui has received more than 340,113 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). César Cui is the 135th most popular composer, the 14th most popular biography from Lithuania (down from 12th in 2019) and the most popular Lithuanian Composer.

César Cui is most famous for his orchestral work, "The Russian Overture."

Memorability Metrics

  • 340k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 70.96

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 52

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.12

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, César Cui ranks 135 out of 1,451. Before him are Carl Nielsen, Maurice Jarre, Domenico Cimarosa, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Johannes Ockeghem, and Giovanni Gabrieli. After him are Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Pérotin, Anton Rubinstein, Marin Marais, Tomás Luis de Victoria, and Édouard Lalo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, César Cui ranks 9. Before him are Empress Dowager Cixi, Pope Pius X, Camille Saint-Saëns, Cesare Lombroso, Adolf von Baeyer, and Andrew Carnegie. After him are Samuel Butler, Giovanni Schiaparelli, Henryk Wieniawski, Giosuè Carducci, William Stanley Jevons, and Fukuzawa Yukichi. Among people deceased in 1918, César Cui ranks 29. Before him are Georgi Plekhanov, Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine, Roland Garros, Niko Pirosmani, Fanny Kaplan, and Lavr Kornilov. After him are Frederick Trump, Ferdinand Hodler, Edmond Rostand, Hermann Cohen, Arrigo Boito, and Paul Vidal de La Blache.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, César Cui ranks 14 out of 328. Before him are Hermann Minkowski (1864), Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (1858), Emma Goldman (1869), Algirdas (1296), Pyotr Wrangel (1878), and Kęstutis (1297). After him are Romain Gary (1914), Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875), Jascha Heifetz (1901), Emilia Plater (1806), Dalia Grybauskaitė (1956), and Valdas Adamkus (1926).

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Among COMPOSERS In Lithuania

Among composers born in Lithuania, César Cui ranks 1. After him are Maximilian Steinberg (1883), Emil Młynarski (1870), and Bronius Kutavičius (1932).

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