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Mieczysław Weinberg

1919 - 1996

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Mieczysław Weinberg (December 8, 1919 – February 26, 1996) was a Polish, Soviet, and Russian composer and pianist. Born in Warsaw to parents who worked in the Yiddish theatre in Poland, his early years were surrounded by music. He taught himself to play the piano at a young age and eventually became skilled enough to substitute for his father as a conductor at Warsaw's Jewish Theatre. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mieczysław Weinberg has received more than 303,794 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Mieczysław Weinberg is the 388th most popular composer (down from 366th in 2019), the 331st most popular biography from Poland (down from 289th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Polish Composer.

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  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.55

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.79

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Mieczysław Weinberg ranks 388 out of 1,451. Before him are Georges Delerue, Johann Joseph Fux, Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, Giovanni Battista Bassani, Ferenc Erkel, and John Koukouzelis. After him are Claudio Merulo, Francesco Gasparini, Bernardo Pasquini, Johann Georg Pisendel, Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska, and Vittoria Aleotti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Mieczysław Weinberg ranks 67. Before him are Joe Weider, Ian Smith, Licio Gelli, Lauri Törni, Wolfgang Wagner, and Bob Paisley. After him are José Villalonga, Maurice Herzog, Archduke Rudolf of Austria, Kiichi Miyazawa, Pierre Soulages, and François Périer. Among people deceased in 1996, Mieczysław Weinberg ranks 72. Before him are Leonor Fini, Virginia Henderson, Spiro Agnew, Bob Paisley, Toru Takemitsu, and Nguyễn Hữu Thọ. After him are Michel Debré, Pavel Sudoplatov, Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria, Mary Leakey, Karl Rappan, and Muhammad al-Badr.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Mieczysław Weinberg ranks 331 out of 1,694. Before him are Mieszko III the Old (1126), Ernst Wilimowski (1916), Walther Nehring (1892), Kurt Tank (1898), Ewald Georg von Kleist (1700), and Kurt Schumacher (1895). After him are Eberhard von Mackensen (1889), Tommy Wiseau (1955), Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska (1834), Barbara Brylska (1941), Casimir Pulaski (1745), and Hans Karl von Diebitsch (1785).

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Among COMPOSERS In Poland

Among composers born in Poland, Mieczysław Weinberg ranks 10. Before him are Henryk Górecki (1933), Martin Agricola (1486), Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881), Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1687), Viktor Ullmann (1898), and Grażyna Bacewicz (1909). After him are Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska (1834), Maria Szymanowska (1789), Józef Elsner (1769), Moritz Moszkowski (1854), Johann Adam Hiller (1728), and Alexandre Tansman (1897).

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