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Dmitri Shostakovich

1906 - 1975

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Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (25 September [O.S. 12 September] 1906 – 9 August 1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist who became internationally known after the premiere of his First Symphony in 1926 and thereafter was regarded as a major composer. Shostakovich achieved early fame in the Soviet Union, but had a complex relationship with its government. His 1934 opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk was initially a success, but eventually was condemned by the Soviet government, putting his career at risk. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dmitri Shostakovich has received more than 4,685,707 page views. His biography is available in 77 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 75 in 2019). Dmitri Shostakovich is the 28th most popular composer (up from 29th in 2019), the 27th most popular biography from Russia (up from 28th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Russian Composer.

Dmitri Shostakovich is most famous for his symphonies. He was a Russian composer and pianist.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Dmitri Shostakovich ranks 28 out of 1,216Before him are Georges Bizet, Claude Debussy, Hector Berlioz, Bedřich Smetana, Ennio Morricone, and Antonio Salieri. After him are Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Jacques Offenbach, Johann Strauss II, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Maurice Ravel, and Christoph Willibald Gluck.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Dmitri Shostakovich ranks 4Before him are Leonid Brezhnev, Adolf Eichmann, and Hannah Arendt. After him are Puyi, Samuel Beckett, Luchino Visconti, Grace Hopper, Josephine Baker, Aristotle Onassis, Kurt Gödel, and Ilse Koch. Among people deceased in 1975, Dmitri Shostakovich ranks 3Before him are Francisco Franco and Hannah Arendt. After him are Chiang Kai-shek, Haile Selassie, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ivo Andrić, Josephine Baker, Aristotle Onassis, Otto Skorzeny, Umm Kulthum, and Arnold J. Toynbee.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Dmitri Shostakovich ranks 27 out of 3,262Before him are Kim Jong-il (1941), Isaac Asimov (1920), Alexander I of Russia (1777), Ayn Rand (1905), Nicholas I of Russia (1796), and Mikhail Bakunin (1814). After him are Alexander III of Russia (1845), Yuri Andropov (1914), Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873), Maxim Gorky (1868), Lev Yashin (1929), and Paul I of Russia (1754).

Among COMPOSERS In Russia

Among composers born in Russia, Dmitri Shostakovich ranks 3Before him are Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840) and Igor Stravinsky (1882). After him are Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873), Modest Mussorgsky (1839), Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844), Alexander Scriabin (1871), Alexander Borodin (1833), Mikhail Glinka (1804), Mily Balakirev (1837), Dmitry Kabalevsky (1904), and Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov (1883).