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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. His compositions include 22 symphonies, a host of chamber works (including 17 string quartets as well as sonatas for violin, cello, and piano), a violin concerto, and seven operas. He was a contemporary of Dmitri Shostakovich, and they often shared ideas with each other. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mieczysław Weinberg has received more than 279,977 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Mieczysław Weinberg is the 366th most popular composer (up from 388th in 2019), the 289th most popular biography from Poland (up from 296th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Polish Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Mieczysław Weinberg ranks 366 out of 1,216. Before him are Johann Kuhnau, Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska, Joseph Martin Kraus, Friedrich von Flotow, György Kurtág, and Alfred Newman. After him are Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Johann Schein, Martin Agricola, Rodion Shchedrin, Hans Richter, and Francesco Gasparini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Mieczysław Weinberg ranks 59. Before him are Teruo Nakamura, Ryszard Kaczorowski, Ian Smith, Mohamed Boudiaf, Glafcos Clerides, and Gillo Pontecorvo. After him are Ashraf Pahlavi, René Barrientos, Ernst Barkmann, Bob Paisley, Valentino Mazzola, and Archduke Rudolf of Austria. Among people deceased in 1996, Mieczysław Weinberg ranks 69. Before him are František Plánička, Nicu Ceaușescu, Toru Takemitsu, Frida Boccara, Geoffrey Wilkinson, and Leonor Fini. After him are Michel Debré, Obdulio Varela, Mary Leakey, Bob Paisley, Greer Garson, and Spiro Agnew.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Mieczysław Weinberg ranks 289 out of 1,454. Before him are Sepp Piontek (1940), Robert Wiene (1873), Jan Karski (1914), Sławomir Mrożek (1930), Ignacy Łukasiewicz (1822), and Johannes Zukertort (1842). After him are Ewald Georg von Kleist (1700), Jean Epstein (1897), Adam Czerniaków (1880), Kazimierz Kuratowski (1896), Martin Agricola (1486), and Casimir II the Just (1138).

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Among COMPOSERS In Poland

Among composers born in Poland, Mieczysław Weinberg ranks 9. Before him are Witold Lutosławski (1913), Henryk Górecki (1933), Moritz Moszkowski (1854), Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881), Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1687), and Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska (1834). After him are Martin Agricola (1486), Józef Elsner (1769), Maria Szymanowska (1789), Grażyna Bacewicz (1909), Alexandre Tansman (1897), and Zbigniew Preisner (1955).

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