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Karol Kurpiński

1785 - 1857

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Karol Kazimierz Kurpiński (March 6, 1785 – September 18, 1857) was a Polish composer, conductor and pedagogue. He was a representative of late classicism and a member of the Warsaw Society of Friends of Learning (Polish: Towarzystwo Warszawskie Przyjaciół Nauk, TWPN). He is also known for having composed the music to the 1831 patriotic song La Varsovienne with lyrics by Casimir Delavigne. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karol Kurpiński has received more than 63,032 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Karol Kurpiński is the 1,143rd most popular composer (down from 1,047th in 2019), the 982nd most popular biography from Poland (down from 835th in 2019) and the 34th most popular Polish Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Karol Kurpiński ranks 1,143 out of 1,451. Before him are Percy Grainger, Ester Mägi, Fumio Hayasaka, Ernest Reyer, Nicolas Slonimsky, and Vasyl Barvinsky. After him are Philippe Verdelot, Francesco Antonio Vallotti, Betsy Jolas, Ernest Gold, Manolis Kalomiris, and Cristóbal Halffter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1785, Karol Kurpiński ranks 46. Before him are Anna Sundström, Francisco Antonio Pinto, August Böckh, Martín Miguel de Güemes, János Scitovszky, and Abel de Pujol. After him are Étienne Constantin de Gerlache, David Wilkie, William Beaumont, Ján Hollý, Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann, and Arvid August Afzelius. Among people deceased in 1857, Karol Kurpiński ranks 53. Before him are Juan Lindo, Johann Friedrich Naumann, Johann Schweigger, Frederick Spencer, 4th Earl Spencer, Stefano Franscini, and Manuel José Quintana. After him are Louis McLane, Vasily Perovsky, Gulab Singh, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, William L. Marcy, and Elisha Kent Kane.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Karol Kurpiński ranks 982 out of 1,694. Before him are Janusz Kamiński (1959), Jerzy Gorgoń (1949), Jan Andrzej Morsztyn (1621), Johannes Block (1894), Joseph Schröter (1837), and John Shalikashvili (1936). After him are Antoni Piechniczek (1942), Danuta Wałęsa (1949), Paweł Mąciwoda (1967), Łukasz Piszczek (1985), Adalbert Krueger (1832), and Szolem Mandelbrojt (1899).

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Among COMPOSERS In Poland

Among composers born in Poland, Karol Kurpiński ranks 34. Before him are Arnold Mendelssohn (1855), Józef Kozłowski (1757), Salomon Jadassohn (1831), Zygmunt Noskowski (1846), Wacław of Szamotuły (1520), and Władysław Żeleński (1837). After him are Oskar Kolberg (1814), Tadeusz Baird (1928), Jan A. P. Kaczmarek (1953), Ludomir Różycki (1883), Abel Korzeniowski (1972), and Agata Zubel (1978).

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