1906 - 1975
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, Dmitri Shostakovich ranks 28 out of 1,216. Before 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.
1838 - 1875
HPI: 79.01
Rank: 22
1862 - 1918
HPI: 78.91
Rank: 23
1803 - 1869
HPI: 78.80
Rank: 24
1824 - 1884
HPI: 78.38
Rank: 25
1928 - 2020
HPI: 78.13
Rank: 26
1750 - 1825
HPI: 78.00
Rank: 27
1906 - 1975
HPI: 77.80
Rank: 28
1520 - 1594
HPI: 77.68
Rank: 29
1819 - 1880
HPI: 77.67
Rank: 30
1825 - 1899
HPI: 77.66
Rank: 31
1873 - 1943
HPI: 77.57
Rank: 32
1875 - 1937
HPI: 77.40
Rank: 33
1714 - 1787
HPI: 76.78
Rank: 34
Among people born in 1906, Dmitri Shostakovich ranks 4. Before 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 3. Before 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.
1906 - 1982
HPI: 81.78
Rank: 1
1906 - 1962
HPI: 79.90
Rank: 2
1906 - 1975
HPI: 79.24
Rank: 3
1906 - 1975
HPI: 77.80
Rank: 4
1906 - 1967
HPI: 77.19
Rank: 5
1906 - 1989
HPI: 76.10
Rank: 6
1906 - 1976
HPI: 75.10
Rank: 7
1906 - 1992
HPI: 73.92
Rank: 8
1906 - 1975
HPI: 73.19
Rank: 9
1906 - 1975
HPI: 73.17
Rank: 10
1906 - 1978
HPI: 72.89
Rank: 11
1906 - 1967
HPI: 71.36
Rank: 12
1892 - 1975
HPI: 82.22
Rank: 1
1906 - 1975
HPI: 79.24
Rank: 2
1906 - 1975
HPI: 77.80
Rank: 3
1887 - 1975
HPI: 76.83
Rank: 4
1892 - 1975
HPI: 75.97
Rank: 5
1922 - 1975
HPI: 75.12
Rank: 6
1892 - 1975
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 7
1906 - 1975
HPI: 73.19
Rank: 8
1906 - 1975
HPI: 73.17
Rank: 9
1908 - 1975
HPI: 73.06
Rank: 10
1898 - 1975
HPI: 72.22
Rank: 11
1889 - 1975
HPI: 71.26
Rank: 12
Among people born in Russia, Dmitri Shostakovich ranks 27 out of 3,262. Before 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).
1941 - 2011
HPI: 79.58
Rank: 21
1920 - 1992
HPI: 78.68
Rank: 22
1777 - 1825
HPI: 78.54
Rank: 23
1905 - 1982
HPI: 78.45
Rank: 24
1796 - 1855
HPI: 78.23
Rank: 25
1814 - 1876
HPI: 77.80
Rank: 26
1906 - 1975
HPI: 77.80
Rank: 27
1845 - 1894
HPI: 77.71
Rank: 28
1914 - 1984
HPI: 77.66
Rank: 29
1873 - 1943
HPI: 77.57
Rank: 30
1868 - 1936
HPI: 77.55
Rank: 31
1929 - 1990
HPI: 77.53
Rank: 32
1754 - 1801
HPI: 77.53
Rank: 33
Among composers born in Russia, Dmitri Shostakovich ranks 3. Before 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).
1840 - 1893
HPI: 83.33
Rank: 1
1882 - 1971
HPI: 80.13
Rank: 2
1906 - 1975
HPI: 77.80
Rank: 3
1873 - 1943
HPI: 77.57
Rank: 4
1839 - 1881
HPI: 76.35
Rank: 5
1844 - 1908
HPI: 75.40
Rank: 6
1871 - 1915
HPI: 72.39
Rank: 7
1833 - 1887
HPI: 71.84
Rank: 8
1804 - 1857
HPI: 68.52
Rank: 9
1837 - 1910
HPI: 68.29
Rank: 10
1904 - 1986
HPI: 64.63
Rank: 11
1883 - 1946
HPI: 64.18
Rank: 12