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Matvey Blanter

1903 - 1990

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Matvey Isaakovich Blanter (Russian: Матве́й Исаа́кович Бла́нтер) (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 110,757 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Matvey Blanter is the 754th most popular composer (up from 893rd in 2019), the 995th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,130th in 2019) and the 35th most popular Russian Composer.

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  • 110k

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  • 52.37

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  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.06

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Matvey Blanter ranks 754 out of 1,216Before him are Anton Walter, Giuseppe Martucci, Gabriel Yared, Pierre Attaingnant, Louise Farrenc, and Edmond Audran. After him are John Taverner, Johann Friedrich Agricola, Kaija Saariaho, Albéric Magnard, Karol Lipiński, and Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Matvey Blanter ranks 140Before him are Boris Blacher, Takiji Kobayashi, Guillermo Subiabre, Abba P. Lerner, Barbara Hepworth, and John Wyndham. After him are Luigi Allemandi, Lina Radke, Ferenc Nagy, Márton Bukovi, Amy Johnson, and Antanas Sniečkus. Among people deceased in 1990, Matvey Blanter ranks 112Before him are Mariano Rumor, Edmund Conen, Michael Powell, Alan Perlis, Hayedeh, and Venedikt Yerofeyev. After him are Andrei Kirilenko, Hans Freudenthal, Kelly Johnson, James M. Gavin, Grethe Ingmann, and David White.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Matvey Blanter ranks 995 out of 3,262Before him are Alexander Izvolsky (1856), Anatoly Tarasov (1918), Ludmila Savelyeva (1942), Semyon Alapin (1856), Yekaterina Furtseva (1910), and Mstislav III of Kiev (1150). After him are Aleksandr Deyneka (1899), Princess Vera Constantinovna of Russia (1906), Andrei Kirilenko (1906), Alexander Shliapnikov (1885), Nikolay Raevsky (1771), and Vasily Klyuchevsky (1841).

Among COMPOSERS In Russia

Among composers born in Russia, Matvey Blanter ranks 35Before him are Tikhon Khrennikov (1913), Edison Denisov (1929), Boris Asafyev (1884), Nikolai Tcherepnin (1873), Aleksandra Pakhmutova (1929), and Muslim Magomayev (1885). After him are Alexander Alyabyev (1787), Alexander Tcherepnin (1899), Galina Ustvolskaya (1919), Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752), Eduard Artemyev (1937), and Erkki Melartin (1875).