COMPOSER

Gara Garayev

1918 - 1982

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Gara Abulfaz oghlu Garayev (February 5, 1918 – May 13, 1982) was a prominent Soviet Azerbaijani composer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gara Garayev has received more than 97,454 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Gara Garayev is the 541st most popular composer (down from 512th in 2019), the 36th most popular biography from Azerbaijan (down from 34th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Azerbaijani Composer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 97k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.25

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.56

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Gara Garayev ranks 541 out of 1,451. Before him are Louis Couperin, George Antheil, Vicente Martín y Soler, Manuel Ponce, Maxim Berezovsky, and Ernest Guiraud. After him are Pietro Nardini, Gershon Kingsley, Johannes Ciconia, Hans Krása, Luis Bacalov, and Frederick Delius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Gara Garayev ranks 92. Before him are Thomas Gordon, Cicely Saunders, Huber Matos, Sandro Puppo, Igor Ansoff, and Vasyl Sukhomlynsky. After him are Leila Mourad, Ben Johnson, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Ajahn Chah, Ida Lupino, and Lothar-Günther Buchheim. Among people deceased in 1982, Gara Garayev ranks 88. Before him are Djuna Barnes, Pavel Alexandrov, Valerio Zurlini, Bess Truman, Isa Miranda, and Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa. After him are Helene Deutsch, Savitri Devi, Ahmad al-Khatib, Art Pepper, Vic Morrow, and Giovanni Benelli.

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In Azerbaijan

Among people born in Azerbaijan, Gara Garayev ranks 36 out of 232. Before him are Shirali Muslimov (1805), Banine (1905), Gavriil Ilizarov (1921), Hovannes Adamian (1879), Zeynab Khanlarova (1936), and Mir Jafar Baghirov (1896). After him are Hamazasp Babadzhanian (1906), Vagit Alekperov (1950), Zeynalabdin Taghiyev (1838), Ziba Ganiyeva (1923), Mirza Shafi Vazeh (1794), and Mahsati (1089).

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Among COMPOSERS In Azerbaijan

Among composers born in Azerbaijan, Gara Garayev ranks 2. Before him are Uzeyir Hajibeyov (1885). After him are Fikret Amirov (1922), Franghiz Ali-Zadeh (1947), Arif Malikov (1933), Avet Terterian (1929), Elza Ibrahimova (1938), Tofig Guliyev (1917), and Rauf Hajiyev (1922).

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