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Dmitry Kabalevsky

1904 - 1986

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Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky (Russian: Дми́трий Бори́сович Кабале́вский ; 30 December [O.S. 17 December] 1904 – 14 February 1987) was a Soviet composer, conductor, pianist and pedagogue of Russian gentry descent.He helped set up the Union of Soviet Composers in Moscow and remained one of its leading figures during his lifetime. He was a prolific composer of piano music and chamber music; many of his piano works were performed by Vladimir Horowitz. He is best known in Western Europe for his Second Symphony, the "Comedians' Galop" from The Comedians Suite, Op. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dmitry Kabalevsky has received more than 312,698 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Dmitry Kabalevsky is the 160th most popular composer (up from 172nd in 2019), the 217th most popular biography from Russia (up from 219th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Russian Composer.

Dmitry Kabalevsky is most famous for composing pieces of music.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Dmitry Kabalevsky ranks 160 out of 1,216Before him are Ottorino Respighi, Vincenzo Galilei, Gustav Holst, Giovanni Paisiello, Marin Marais, and Vittorio Monti. After him are Francesco Cavalli, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Ferruccio Busoni, John Barry, Nicola Porpora, and Scott Joplin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Dmitry Kabalevsky ranks 30Before him are Hans Albert Einstein, Werner Forssmann, John Hicks, Luis Carrero Blanco, Gregory Bateson, and Harry Martinson. After him are Witold Gombrowicz, Hans Morgenthau, Ernst Mayr, Willem de Kooning, Wendell Meredith Stanley, and Joseph Campbell. Among people deceased in 1986, Dmitry Kabalevsky ranks 23Before him are Cliff Burton, Celâl Bayar, Henry Moore, Albert Szent-Györgyi, Alva Myrdal, and Fritz Albert Lipmann. After him are Benny Goodman, Erich Koch, Edward Adelbert Doisy, James Rainwater, Chiune Sugihara, and Jaroslav Seifert.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Dmitry Kabalevsky ranks 217 out of 3,262Before him are The French Angel (1903), Pafnuty Chebyshev (1821), Vasily II of Moscow (1415), Fritz Albert Lipmann (1899), Ivan Krylov (1769), and Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg (1599). After him are Patriarch Kirill of Moscow (1946), Nikolay Chernyshevsky (1828), Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1883), Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (1863), Aleksandr Ulyanov (1866), and Gherman Titov (1935).

Among COMPOSERS In Russia

Among composers born in Russia, Dmitry Kabalevsky ranks 11Before him are Modest Mussorgsky (1839), Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844), Alexander Scriabin (1871), Alexander Borodin (1833), Mikhail Glinka (1804), and Mily Balakirev (1837). After him are Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov (1883), Sofia Gubaidulina (1931), Alfred Schnittke (1934), Otto Nicolai (1810), Anton Arensky (1861), and Sergei Taneyev (1856).