MUSICIAN

David Oistrakh

1908 - 1974

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David Fyodorovich Oistrakh (né Eustrach; 30 September [O.S. 17 September] 1908 – 24 October 1974) was a Soviet Russian violinist, violist, and conductor. He was also Professor at the Moscow Conservatory, People's Artist of the USSR (1953), and Laureate of the Lenin Prize (1960). Oistrakh collaborated with major orchestras and musicians from many parts of the world and was the dedicatee of numerous violin works, including both of Dmitri Shostakovich's violin concerti and the violin concerto by Aram Khachaturian. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Oistrakh has received more than 480,024 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). David Oistrakh is the 93rd most popular musician (down from 89th in 2019), the 70th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 55th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Ukrainian Musician.

David Oistrakh is most famous for his recordings of the Bach sonatas and partitas for solo violin.

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  • 480k

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  • 66.58

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 46

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.92

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, David Oistrakh ranks 93 out of 3,175. Before him are Richard Wright, Ziryab, Sviatoslav Richter, Glenn Gould, Paul Simon, and Charlie Parker. After him are Alice Cooper, Dschinghis Khan, Chet Baker, Frank Farian, Angus Young, and Quincy Jones.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, David Oistrakh ranks 23. Before him are Geli Raubal, Simon Wiesenthal, Ian Fleming, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Mika Waltari, and Anna Magnani. After him are Nelson Rockefeller, Hannes Alfvén, Joseph McCarthy, Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Franz Stangl, and Amon Göth. Among people deceased in 1974, David Oistrakh ranks 19. Before him are Duke Ellington, Virginia Apgar, Imre Lakatos, Julius Evola, Miguel Ángel Asturias, and Rudolf Dassler. After him are Jacob L. Moreno, Darius Milhaud, Erich Kästner, Zalman Shazar, Satyendra Nath Bose, and Peng Dehuai.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, David Oistrakh ranks 70 out of 1,365. Before him are Nikolai Berdyaev (1874), Rodion Malinovsky (1898), Ilya Ehrenburg (1891), Stanislaw Ulam (1909), Daniel of Galicia (1201), and Sviatoslav Richter (1915). After him are Sergey Bubka (1963), Isaac Babel (1894), Georges Charpak (1924), Sonia Delaunay (1885), Anatoliy Solovianenko (1932), and Vladimir Tatlin (1885).

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Among MUSICIANS In Ukraine

Among musicians born in Ukraine, David Oistrakh ranks 3. Before him are Vladimir Horowitz (1903), and Sviatoslav Richter (1915). After him are Emil Gilels (1916), Isaac Stern (1920), Heinrich Neuhaus (1888), Leonid Kogan (1924), Alexander Siloti (1863), Nikolai Kapustin (1937), Gregor Piatigorsky (1903), Igor Oistrakh (1931), and Felix Blumenfeld (1863).

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