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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dmitry Kabalevsky has received more than 326,621 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Dmitry Kabalevsky is the 175th most popular composer (down from 160th in 2019), the 237th most popular biography from Russia (down from 216th 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 175 out of 1,451. Before him are Baldassare Galuppi, Jan Dismas Zelenka, Henry Mancini, Hugo Wolf, Amilcare Ponchielli, and Jordi Savall. After him are Gustav Holst, Francesca Caccini, Luciano Berio, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Francesco Cavalli, and Giuseppe Torelli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Dmitry Kabalevsky ranks 32. Before him are Joan Crawford, Luis Carrero Blanco, Witold Gombrowicz, John Hicks, Werner Forssmann, and Antonín Novotný. After him are Gregory Bateson, Ernst Mayr, Hans Morgenthau, Wendell Meredith Stanley, George F. Kennan, and Alejo Carpentier. Among people deceased in 1986, Dmitry Kabalevsky ranks 28. Before him are Albert Szent-Györgyi, James Rainwater, Fritz Albert Lipmann, Erich Koch, Samora Machel, and Alva Myrdal. After him are Stanley Rous, Leonid Kantorovich, Georges Dumézil, Chiune Sugihara, Benny Goodman, and Lê Duẩn.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Dmitry Kabalevsky ranks 237 out of 3,761. Before him are Gennady Yanayev (1937), Algirdas Julien Greimas (1917), Ilya Frank (1908), Daniel of Moscow (1261), Pyotr Kapitsa (1894), and Gerhard Barkhorn (1919). After him are Ivan Krylov (1769), Leonid Kantorovich (1912), Dmitri Ivanovsky (1864), Boris Nemtsov (1959), Pitirim Sorokin (1889), and Nikolay Przhevalsky (1839).

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Among COMPOSERS In Russia

Among composers born in Russia, Dmitry Kabalevsky ranks 11. Before him are Modest Mussorgsky (1839), Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844), Alexander Scriabin (1871), Alexander Borodin (1833), Mily Balakirev (1837), and Mikhail Glinka (1804). After him are Sofia Gubaidulina (1931), Alfred Schnittke (1934), Otto Nicolai (1810), Irving Berlin (1888), Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov (1883), and Anton Arensky (1861).

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