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Grigory Sokolov

1950 - Today

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Grigory Lipmanovich Sokolov (Russian: Григо́рий Ли́пманович Соколо́в; born April 18, 1950) is a Russian pianist with Spanish citizenship. He is among the most esteemed of living pianists, his repertoire spanning composers from the Baroque period such as Bach, Couperin or Rameau up to Schoenberg and Arapov. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Grigory Sokolov has received more than 361,851 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Grigory Sokolov is the 345th most popular musician (up from 440th in 2019), the 553rd most popular biography from Russia (up from 619th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Russian Musician.

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  • 360k

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  • 57.50

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.95

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Grigory Sokolov ranks 345 out of 2,662Before him are Billy Gibbons, Jack Bruce, Michael Cretu, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Cliff Williams, and Burt Bacharach. After him are Ginger Baker, Wilhelm Backhaus, Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, Lee Soo-man, Bo Diddley, and Liberace.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Grigory Sokolov ranks 73Before him are Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Miou-Miou, Mark Blum, Chen Shui-bian, Mikhail Fradkov, and Håkan Nesser. After him are Tsui Hark, John Landis, Lakshmi Mittal, Laura Gemser, Julius Erving, and Ueli Maurer.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Grigory Sokolov ranks 553 out of 3,262Before him are Prince Roman Petrovich of Russia (1896), Tode Mongke (1282), Yuri Averbakh (1922), Mikhail Skobelev (1843), Konstantin Makovsky (1839), and Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev (1906). After him are Sergey Biryuzov (1904), Nikolai Chernykh (1931), Aleksandr Mikhailovich of Tver (1301), Ivan Sechenov (1829), Viktor Tikhonov (1930), and Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay (1846).

Among MUSICIANS In Russia

Among musicians born in Russia, Grigory Sokolov ranks 5Before him are Alexander Glazunov (1865), Vladimir Ashkenazy (1937), Nikolai Rubinstein (1835), and Valery Gergiev (1953). After him are Maxim Shostakovich (1938), Alexander Gradsky (1949), Maria Yudina (1899), Lev Oborin (1907), Edgar Froese (1944), Vladimir Sofronitsky (1901), and Lazar Berman (1930).