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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 206,012 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Ludwig Minkus is the 192nd most popular composer (up from 201st in 2019), the 189th most popular biography from Austria (up from 194th 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 192 out of 1,216Before him are Howard Shore, Siegfried Wagner, Luciano Berio, Louis Spohr, Max Reger, and Johann Joachim Quantz. After him are Samuel Barber, Michael Praetorius, Jordi Savall, Philippe de Vitry, Gilles Binchois, and Francesco Landini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1826, Ludwig Minkus ranks 6Before him are Bernhard Riemann, Carlo Collodi, Eugénie de Montijo, Gustave Moreau, and Charles XV of Sweden. After him are Wilhelm Liebknecht, Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden, Stanislao Cannizzaro, Armand David, Zénobe Gramme, and Frederic Edwin Church. Among people deceased in 1917, Ludwig Minkus ranks 18Before him are Buffalo Bill, Emil Theodor Kocher, John William Waterhouse, Franz Brentano, Scott Joplin, and Dragutin Dimitrijević. After him are Ranavalona III, Hussein Kamel of Egypt, Dadabhai Naoroji, Liliʻuokalani, Jean Gaston Darboux, and Radomir Putnik.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Ludwig Minkus ranks 189 out of 1,237Before him are Klaus Maria Brandauer (1943), Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach (1656), Maria Theresa of Austria (1816), Alfred Schütz (1899), Maria Schell (1926), and Anna of Tyrol (1585). After him are Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf (1852), Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg (1771), Franz I, Prince of Liechtenstein (1853), Karl Böhm (1894), Archduke Charles Joseph of Austria (1745), and Archduke Ernest of Austria (1553).

Among COMPOSERS In Austria

Among composers born in Austria, Ludwig Minkus ranks 18Before him are Alma Mahler (1879), Josef Strauss (1827), Émile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865), Anna Maria Mozart (1720), Eduard Strauss (1835), and Michael Haydn (1737). After him are Alexander von Zemlinsky (1871), Franz Xaver Süssmayr (1766), Franz Xaver Gruber (1787), Johann Georg Albrechtsberger (1736), Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739), and Ludwig Ritter von Köchel (1800).