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Krystian Zimerman

1956 - Today

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Krystian Zimerman (born 5 December 1956) is a Polish concert pianist, conductor and pedagogue who has been described as one of the greatest pianists of his generation. In 1975, he won the IX International Chopin Piano Competition. Following the success at the Chopin Piano Competition, he began his collaboration with the Berlin Philharmonic and has since performed with leading orchestras around the world as well as many prominent conductors such as Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez, Herbert von Karajan, Claudio Abbado and Simon Rattle. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Krystian Zimerman has received more than 627,270 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 28 in 2019). Krystian Zimerman is the 415th most popular musician (down from 374th in 2019), the 406th most popular biography from Poland (down from 340th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Polish Musician.

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Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Krystian Zimerman ranks 415 out of 3,175. Before him are Bulbul, Alan Walker, Tom Petty, Domenico Alberti, Willi Boskovsky, and DJ BoBo. After him are Safi al-Din al-Urmawi, Annie Fischer, John Phillips, Leonardo De Lorenzo, Lionel Hampton, and Geezer Butler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1956, Krystian Zimerman ranks 77. Before him are Boris Akunin, Kōji Yakusho, Patricia Cornwell, Mansour Bahrami, Baruch Goldstein, and La Toya Jackson. After him are Miguel Bosé, Alejandro Giammattei, Ewa Kopacz, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, Sugar Ray Leonard, and Andrus Ansip.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Krystian Zimerman ranks 406 out of 1,694. Before him are Horst Mahler (1936), Adam Stefan Sapieha (1867), Gerhard Klopfer (1905), Johann Adam Hiller (1728), Florian Znaniecki (1882), and Mieszko I Tanglefoot (1132). After him are Anny Ondra (1903), Włodzimierz Smolarek (1957), Hyacinth Graf Strachwitz (1893), Helmuth von Pannwitz (1898), Wilhelm Kube (1887), and Ewa Kopacz (1956).

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Among MUSICIANS In Poland

Among musicians born in Poland, Krystian Zimerman ranks 7. Before him are Władysław Szpilman (1911), Arthur Rubinstein (1887), Henryk Wieniawski (1835), Wanda Landowska (1879), Henryk Szeryng (1918), and Artur Schnabel (1882). After him are Theodor Leschetizky (1830), Josef Hofmann (1876), Christoph Eschenbach (1940), Bronisław Huberman (1882), Julian Fontana (1810), and Julie Guicciardi (1782).

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