COMPOSER

Ludwig Minkus

1826 - 1917

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Ludwig Minkus (Russian: Людвиг Минкус), also known as Léon Fyodorovich Minkus (23 March 1826, Vienna – 7 December 1917, Vienna), was an Austrian composer of ballet music, a violinist and teacher of music. Minkus is noted for the music he composed during his career in St. Petersburg, Russia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ludwig Minkus has received more than 227,007 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Ludwig Minkus is the 199th most popular composer (down from 192nd in 2019), the 193rd most popular biography from Austria (down from 189th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Austrian Composer.

Ludwig Minkus is most famous for being a composer of ballet music.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Ludwig Minkus ranks 199 out of 1,451. Before him are Anna Maria Mozart, Johann Stamitz, Umberto Giordano, François-Joseph Gossec, Philippe de Vitry, and Johann Joachim Quantz. After him are Niels Gade, Eugène Ysaÿe, André Grétry, Alexander von Zemlinsky, Michael Praetorius, and Gilles Binchois.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1826, Ludwig Minkus ranks 7. Before him are Bernhard Riemann, Carlo Collodi, Eugénie de Montijo, Charles XV of Sweden, Gustave Moreau, and Wilhelm Liebknecht. After him are Stanislao Cannizzaro, Frederic Edwin Church, Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden, Danilo I, Prince of Montenegro, Alexander Afanasyev, and Armand David. Among people deceased in 1917, Ludwig Minkus ranks 18. Before him are Emil Theodor Kocher, Buffalo Bill, John William Waterhouse, Dragutin Dimitrijević, Franz Brentano, and Scott Joplin. After him are Ranavalona III, Hussein Kamel of Egypt, Radomir Putnik, Liliʻuokalani, Dadabhai Naoroji, and Léon Bloy.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Ludwig Minkus ranks 193 out of 1,424. Before him are Klaus Ebner (1964), Constance of Austria (1588), Falco (1957), Anna Maria Mozart (1720), Elizabeth of Austria (1526), and Klaus Maria Brandauer (1943). After him are Wilhelm Miklas (1872), Erich von Stroheim (1885), Richard Neutra (1892), Archduke Charles Joseph of Austria (1745), Anna of Tyrol (1585), and Leopold III, Margrave of Austria (1073).

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Among COMPOSERS In Austria

Among composers born in Austria, Ludwig Minkus ranks 18. Before him are Josef Strauss (1827), Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart (1791), Michael Haydn (1737), Émile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865), Eduard Strauss (1835), and Anna Maria Mozart (1720). After him are Alexander von Zemlinsky (1871), Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739), Clemens Krauss (1893), Franz Xaver Gruber (1787), Johann Georg Albrechtsberger (1736), and Max Steiner (1888).

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