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Gennady Rozhdestvensky

1931 - 2018

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Gennady Nikolayevich Rozhdestvensky, CBE (Russian: Генна́дий Никола́евич Рожде́ственский; 4 May 1931 – 16 June 2018) was a Soviet and Russian conductor, pianist, composer and pedagogue. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gennady Rozhdestvensky has received more than 148,179 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Gennady Rozhdestvensky is the 521st most popular composer (up from 525th in 2019), the 691st most popular biography from Russia (down from 651st in 2019) and the 25th most popular Russian Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Gennady Rozhdestvensky ranks 521 out of 1,216Before him are Hans Krása, Hans Swarowsky, Bronius Kutavičius, Manuel Ponce, Ferenc Erkel, and Hervé. After him are Edgard Varèse, Gershon Kingsley, Jean Françaix, Alexandre Guilmant, Johann Georg Pisendel, and Eleni Karaindrou.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Gennady Rozhdestvensky ranks 123Before him are Hiroto Muraoka, Claire Bloom, Silvia Pinal, Pierre Nora, Hirokazu Kanazawa, and Mukaghali Makatayev. After him are Leslie Caron, Alfred Schmidt, Barbara Bain, Magali Noël, Pascal Lissouba, and Dries van Agt. Among people deceased in 2018, Gennady Rozhdestvensky ranks 105Before him are Henri Michel, Belisario Betancur, Nicanor Parra, Uri Avnery, Bruno Sammartino, and Richard Pipes. After him are Kim Jong-pil, Alan Baker, Maria Bueno, Margot Kidder, Darío Castrillón Hoyos, and Michael Anderson.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Gennady Rozhdestvensky ranks 691 out of 3,262Before him are Friedrich Karl Ludwig, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (1757), Catherine of Brandenburg (1604), Ivan Goremykin (1839), Yekaterina Budanova (1916), Zinaida Gippius (1869), and Caran d'Ache (1858). After him are Lev Ivanov (1834), Dietrich von Saucken (1892), Valeri Kharlamov (1948), Tatiana Samoilova (1934), Meir Dagan (1945), and Denis Fonvizin (1745).

Among COMPOSERS In Russia

Among composers born in Russia, Gennady Rozhdestvensky ranks 25Before him are Anatoly Lyadov (1855), Alexander Dargomyzhsky (1813), Nikolai Medtner (1879), Vasily Kalinnikov (1866), Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov (1859), and Hans Pfitzner (1869). After him are Georgy Sviridov (1915), Sergei Lyapunov (1859), Alexander Gretchaninov (1864), Tikhon Khrennikov (1913), Edison Denisov (1929), and Boris Asafyev (1884).