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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 – 13 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 300,170 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). César Cui is the 135th most popular composer (down from 120th in 2019), the 12th most popular biography from Lithuania (down from 11th in 2019) and the most popular Lithuanian Composer.

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

Memorability Metrics

  • 300k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 66.25

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 51

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, César Cui ranks 135 out of 1,216Before him are Johannes Ockeghem, Paul Dukas, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Maurice Jarre, Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, and Iannis Xenakis. After him are Emmerich Kálmán, Pierre Boulez, Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, Michel Legrand, Léonin, and Fanny Mendelssohn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, César Cui ranks 9Before him are Empress Dowager Cixi, Camille Saint-Saëns, Leopold II of Belgium, Cesare Lombroso, Adolf von Baeyer, and Andrew Carnegie. After him are Henryk Wieniawski, Giovanni Schiaparelli, Samuel Butler, Demetrius Vikelas, Giosuè Carducci, and Eduard Strauss. Among people deceased in 1918, César Cui ranks 24Before him are Otto Wagner, Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia, Louis Renault, Georgi Plekhanov, Roland Garros, and Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine. After him are Lavr Kornilov, Niko Pirosmani, Ferdinand Hodler, Fanny Kaplan, Edmond Rostand, and Paul Vidal de La Blache.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, César Cui ranks 12 out of 287Before him are Emmanuel Levinas (1906), Czesław Miłosz (1911), Romain Gary (1914), Algirdas (1296), Emma Goldman (1869), and Hermann Minkowski (1864). After him are Pyotr Wrangel (1878), Kęstutis (1297), Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (1858), Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875), Petr Shelokhonov (1929), and Antanas Smetona (1874).

Among COMPOSERS In Lithuania

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