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Igor Markevitch

1912 - 1983

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Igor Borisovich Markevitch (Russian: Игорь Борисович Маркевич, Igor Borisovich Markevich, Ukrainian: Ігор Борисович Маркевич, Ihor Borysovych Markevych; 27 July 1912 – 7 March 1983) was a Russian composer and conductor who studied and worked in Paris and became a naturalized Italian and French citizen in 1947 and 1982 respectively. He was commissioned in 1929 for a piano concerto by impresario Serge Diaghilev of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Markevitch settled in Italy during World War II. After the war, he moved to Switzerland. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Igor Markevitch has received more than 143,947 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 20 in 2019). Igor Markevitch is the 441st most popular composer (up from 603rd in 2019), the 221st most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 298th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Ukrainian Composer.

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  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.10

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  • 1.52

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Igor Markevitch ranks 441 out of 1,216Before him are Vasily Kalinnikov, Pēteris Vasks, Franz Schreker, Francesco Maria Veracini, Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, and Grażyna Bacewicz. After him are Alexander Agricola, Paul Abraham, Étienne Méhul, Louis Durey, Karl Goldmark, and Paolo Tosti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Igor Markevitch ranks 92Before him are Jacques Ellul, Shoichi Nishimura, Perry Como, Philibert Tsiranana, Jean Améry, and Jiří Trnka. After him are György Sárosi, Fritz Klingenberg, Kim Sung-gan, Melita Norwood, Petar Stambolić, and Samuel Fuller. Among people deceased in 1983, Igor Markevitch ranks 53Before him are Germaine Tailleferre, Victor Turner, Shizo Kanakuri, Walther Nehring, William Walton, and Norma Shearer. After him are Ralph Richardson, Florence Owens Thompson, Anthony Blunt, Karen Carpenter, László Budai, and Benigno Aquino Jr..

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Igor Markevitch ranks 221 out of 1,083Before him are Samuel Noah Kramer (1897), Cyril Genik (1857), Michael Rostovtzeff (1870), Alexander Vertinsky (1889), Viktor Bunyakovsky (1804), and Eugen Ehrlich (1862). After him are Efim Bogoljubov (1889), Pavel Sudoplatov (1907), Valentyn Sylvestrov (1937), Alexandru Averescu (1859), Stanisław Sosabowski (1892), and Nikolai Kapustin (1937).

Among COMPOSERS In Ukraine

Among composers born in Ukraine, Igor Markevitch ranks 9Before him are Reinhold Glière (1874), Dmitry Bortniansky (1751), Stefania Turkewich (1898), Dimitri Tiomkin (1894), Wojciech Kilar (1932), and Mykola Lysenko (1842). After him are Valentyn Sylvestrov (1937), Franz Doppler (1821), Ciprian Porumbescu (1853), Maxim Berezovsky (1745), Boris Lyatoshinsky (1894), and Sergei Bortkiewicz (1877).