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Matvey Blanter

1903 - 1990

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Matvey Isaakovich Blanter (10 February [O.S. 28 January] 1903 – 27 September 1990) was a Soviet composer, and one of the most prominent composers of popular songs and film music in the Soviet Union. Among many other works, he wrote the famous "Katyusha" (1938), performed to this day internationally. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Matvey Blanter has received more than 125,254 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Matvey Blanter is the 734th most popular composer (up from 753rd in 2019), the 1,032nd most popular biography from Russia (down from 993rd in 2019) and the 34th most popular Russian Composer.

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  • 130k

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  • 53.58

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.01

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Matvey Blanter ranks 734 out of 1,451. Before him are Domenico Gabrielli, Matthias Weckmann, Paul Ben-Haim, Johann Gottlieb Naumann, Rued Langgaard, and Arthur Sullivan. After him are Hans Rott, Charles Tournemire, Petrus de Cruce, Goffredo Petrassi, Luigi Denza, and Cesare Pugni.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Matvey Blanter ranks 143. Before him are Rensis Likert, Benjamin Spock, John Wyndham, Guillermo Subiabre, Lina Radke, and Dolores Costello. After him are Takiji Kobayashi, Ona Munson, Anne Revere, Maria Giuseppa Robucci, Márton Bukovi, and Antanas Sniečkus. Among people deceased in 1990, Matvey Blanter ranks 109. Before him are Xavier Cugat, Rashad Khalifa, Patriarch Pimen I of Moscow, Wolfgang Schmieder, Martin Ritt, and Del Shannon. After him are Irene Dunne, Prince Andrew of Yugoslavia, Naoto Tajima, Peter Wessel Zapffe, Andrei Kirilenko, and Anne Revere.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Matvey Blanter ranks 1,032 out of 3,761. Before him are Dmitry Ilyich Ulyanov (1874), Fyodor Sergeyev (1883), Ivan Smirnov (1881), Vasily Golovnin (1776), Franz Overbeck (1837), and Nikolai Luzin (1883). After him are Nikolay Muravyov-Amursky (1809), Andrey Andreyevich Andreyev (1895), Duke Peter of Oldenburg (1812), Stanislav Cherchesov (1963), Natalia Gutman (1942), and Vasily Lanovoy (1934).

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Among COMPOSERS In Russia

Among composers born in Russia, Matvey Blanter ranks 34. Before him are Gennady Rozhdestvensky (1931), Tikhon Khrennikov (1913), Alexander Gretchaninov (1864), Sergei Lyapunov (1859), Alexander Tcherepnin (1899), and Edison Denisov (1929). After him are Boris Asafyev (1884), Eduard Artemyev (1937), Erkki Melartin (1875), Alexander Alyabyev (1787), Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752), and Muslim Magomayev (1885).

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