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Igor Stravinsky

1882 - 1971

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Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (17 June [O.S. 5 June] 1882 – 6 April 1971) was a Russian composer and conductor with French citizenship (from 1934) and American citizenship (from 1945). He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century and a pivotal figure in modernist music. Born to a musical family in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Stravinsky grew up taking piano and music theory lessons. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Igor Stravinsky has received more than 5,087,607 page views. His biography is available in 131 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 126 in 2019). Igor Stravinsky is the 22nd most popular composer (down from 18th in 2019), the 27th most popular biography from Russia (down from 20th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Russian Composer.

Igor Stravinsky is most famous for composing the ballet "The Rite of Spring" in 1913.

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  • 81.49

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  • 131

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Igor Stravinsky ranks 22 out of 1,451. Before him are Giacomo Puccini, Edvard Grieg, Gioachino Rossini, Felix Mendelssohn, Georges Bizet, and Claudio Monteverdi. After him are Ennio Morricone, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Claude Debussy, Bedřich Smetana, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Igor Stravinsky ranks 2. Before him is Franklin D. Roosevelt. After him are James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden, Wilhelm Keitel, Georges Braque, Max Born, Sigrid Undset, Georgi Dimitrov, Emmy Noether, and Abdullah I of Jordan. Among people deceased in 1971, Igor Stravinsky ranks 3. Before him are Nikita Khrushchev, and Coco Chanel. After him are Louis Armstrong, Jim Morrison, Paul Karrer, György Lukács, Audie Murphy, Lawrence Bragg, Fernandel, Hermann Hoth, and Arne Tiselius.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Igor Stravinsky ranks 27 out of 3,761. Before him are Ayn Rand (1905), Alexander I of Russia (1777), Lev Yashin (1929), Maxim Gorky (1868), Isaac Asimov (1920), and Mikhail Bakunin (1814). After him are Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918), Nicholas I of Russia (1796), Yuri Andropov (1914), Alexander III of Russia (1845), Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873), and Yul Brynner (1920).

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Among COMPOSERS In Russia

Among composers born in Russia, Igor Stravinsky ranks 2. Before him are Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840). After him are Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873), Dmitri Shostakovich (1906), Modest Mussorgsky (1839), Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844), Alexander Scriabin (1871), Alexander Borodin (1833), Mily Balakirev (1837), Mikhail Glinka (1804), Dmitry Kabalevsky (1904), and Sofia Gubaidulina (1931).

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