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Igor Oistrakh

1931 - 2021

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Igor Davidovich Oistrakh (Russian: И́горь Дави́дович О́йстрах; April 1931 – 14 August 2021) was a Soviet and Russian violinist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Igor Oistrakh has received more than 110,693 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Igor Oistrakh is the 288th most popular musician (up from 486th in 2019), the 180th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 266th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Ukrainian Musician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 110k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.65

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.13

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Igor Oistrakh ranks 288 out of 2,662Before him are Clara Haskil, Alan Parsons, Will.i.am, Dave Mustaine, Tiësto, and Ornette Coleman. After him are Sixto Rodriguez, Eric Carr, Charles Mingus, PJ Harvey, Manu Dibango, and Stig Anderson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Igor Oistrakh ranks 80Before him are Carroll Baker, Stephen Boyd, Margarita Lozano, Richard F. Heck, Larry Silverstein, and Thorvald Stoltenberg. After him are Stig Anderson, Toshiki Kaifu, Márta Mészáros, Tomi Ungerer, Samir Amin, and John Robert Schrieffer. Among people deceased in 2021, Igor Oistrakh ranks 106Before him are Helen McCrory, Walter Mondale, Nino Vaccarella, Tamara Press, Kjell Askildsen, and David Yonggi Cho. After him are Carolyn S. Shoemaker, Christa Ludwig, Kurt Westergaard, Toshihide Maskawa, Nino Castelnuovo, and Stephen Sondheim.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Igor Oistrakh ranks 180 out of 1,083Before him are Zinaida Serebriakova (1884), Tamara Press (1937), Alexander Rutskoy (1947), Mstislav II of Kiev (1200), Hayim Nahman Bialik (1873), and Eupraxia of Kiev (1071). After him are Dimitri Tiomkin (1894), Bion of Borysthenes (-325), Paul Muni (1895), Angelica Balabanoff (1878), Konstanty Ostrogski (1460), and Yaropolk II of Kiev (1082).

Among MUSICIANS In Ukraine

Among musicians born in Ukraine, Igor Oistrakh ranks 8Before him are Sviatoslav Richter (1915), David Oistrakh (1908), Emil Gilels (1916), Isaac Stern (1920), Heinrich Neuhaus (1888), and Leonid Kogan (1924). After him are Gregor Piatigorsky (1903), Nathan Milstein (1902), Nikolai Kapustin (1937), Alexander Siloti (1863), Arkady Luxemburg (1939), and Felix Blumenfeld (1863).