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Maria Szymanowska

1789 - 1831

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Maria Szymanowska (Polish pronunciation: [ˈmarja ʂɨmaˈnɔfska]; born Marianna Agata Wołowska; Warsaw, 14 December 1789 – 25 July 1831, St. Petersburg, Russia) was a Polish composer and one of the first professional virtuoso pianists of the 19th century. She toured extensively throughout Europe, especially in the 1820s, before settling permanently in St. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maria Szymanowska has received more than 103,322 page views. Her biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Maria Szymanowska is the 406th most popular composer (up from 409th in 2019), the 344th most popular biography from Poland (down from 326th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Polish Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Maria Szymanowska ranks 406 out of 1,451. Before her are Jakov Gotovac, Carl Loewe, Alfred Einstein, Yo-Yo Ma, Adriano Banchieri, and Mauricio Kagel. After her are Franz Schreker, Jacques-Martin Hotteterre, Richard Rodgers, Luigi Dallapiccola, Stefano Landi, and Ernest Bloch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1789, Maria Szymanowska ranks 14. Before her are Horace Vernet, Johann Friedrich Overbeck, Abbas Mirza, Heinrich Schwabe, Princess Charlotte of Denmark, and Princess Louise Caroline of Hesse-Kassel. After her are Carl Gustav Carus, Princess Amélie Louise of Arenberg, John Martin, Marcellin Champagnat, Joseph, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, and George II, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont. Among people deceased in 1831, Maria Szymanowska ranks 23. Before her are Vicente Guerrero, Ignaz Pleyel, Barthold Georg Niebuhr, Thomas Johann Seebeck, Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, and Hans Karl von Diebitsch. After her are Henri Grégoire, Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein, Princess Louise of Denmark, Sébastien Érard, and James Hoban.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Maria Szymanowska ranks 344 out of 1,694. Before her are Leopold Infeld (1898), Roman Dmowski (1864), Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff (1699), Johann Daniel Titius (1729), Fritz Gerlich (1883), and Jerzy Kosiński (1933). After her are Johann Reinhold Forster (1729), Janusz Korwin-Mikke (1942), Elizabeth Richeza of Poland (1286), Muazzez Sultan (1628), Richard Pipes (1923), and Werner Naumann (1909).

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Among COMPOSERS In Poland

Among composers born in Poland, Maria Szymanowska ranks 12. Before her are Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881), Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1687), Viktor Ullmann (1898), Grażyna Bacewicz (1909), Mieczysław Weinberg (1919), and Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska (1834). After her are Józef Elsner (1769), Moritz Moszkowski (1854), Johann Adam Hiller (1728), Alexandre Tansman (1897), Zbigniew Preisner (1955), and Johann Gottlieb Goldberg (1727).

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