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Galina Ustvolskaya

1919 - 2006

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Galina Ivanovna Ustvolskaya (Russian: Галина Ивановна Уствольская , was a Russian composer of classical music. Known as ‘the lady with the hammer’, her music has been described as demanding “everything from the performer", uncompromising in her trademark textured homophonic blocks of sound. Ustvolskaya created her own unique style, characterized by unusual combinations of instruments that created highly specific tone clusters and textures and her large dynamic ranges. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Galina Ustvolskaya has received more than 160,609 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Galina Ustvolskaya is the 879th most popular composer (down from 786th in 2019), the 1,236th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,031st in 2019) and the 42nd most popular Russian Composer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 160k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.53

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.51

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.06

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Galina Ustvolskaya ranks 879 out of 1,451. Before her are Nikolai Zaremba, Friedrich Cerha, Leo Fall, Zacharia Paliashvili, Per Nørgård, and Henri Tomasi. After her are Albéric Magnard, Martin Wegelius, David Del Tredici, Ernst Toch, Giuseppe Martucci, and Loyset Compère.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Galina Ustvolskaya ranks 162. Before her are Tamara Toumanova, Hermann Bondi, Jüri Järvet, Igor Gouzenko, Oswaldo Guayasamín, and Hans Hermann Groër. After her are Julia Robinson, Laila Schou Nilsen, Eva Gabor, Fazlur Rahman Malik, Mohammad Yunus Khalis, and Pál Losonczi. Among people deceased in 2006, Galina Ustvolskaya ranks 176. Before her are Desmond Dekker, Peter Benchley, Mickey Spillane, Tadao Onishi, Andreas Katsulas, and Peter Norman. After her are Vilgot Sjöman, Hugh Thompson Jr., Mohammad Yunus Khalis, Octavia E. Butler, Daniel Schmid, and Pierre Vidal-Naquet.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Galina Ustvolskaya ranks 1,236 out of 3,761. Before her are Patriarch Hermogenes of Moscow (1530), Alexey Bestuzhev-Ryumin (1693), Gennady Padalka (1958), Ignatius Brianchaninov (1807), Vyacheslav Zaytsev (1952), and Eugen Slutsky (1880). After her are Pavel Chichagov (1767), Carl Neumann (1832), Natalya Lisovskaya (1962), Dmitry Belyayev (1917), Valentin Gaft (1935), and Vladimir Aksyonov (1935).

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Among COMPOSERS In Russia

Among composers born in Russia, Galina Ustvolskaya ranks 42. Before her are Eduard Artemyev (1937), Erkki Melartin (1875), Alexander Alyabyev (1787), Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752), Muslim Magomayev (1885), and Nikolai Tcherepnin (1873). After her are Hermann Goetz (1840), Vissarion Shebalin (1902), Ivan Larionov (1830), Nikolai Roslavets (1881), Aulis Sallinen (1935), and Karen Khachaturian (1920).

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