COMPOSER

Mikhail Glinka

1804 - 1857

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Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (Russian: Михаил Иванович Глинка, romanized: Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka, IPA: [mʲɪxɐˈil ɨˈvanəvʲɪdʑ ˈɡlʲinkə] ; 1 June [O.S. 20 May] 1804 – 15 February [O.S. 3 February] 1857) was the first Russian composer to gain wide recognition within his own country and is often regarded as the fountainhead of Russian classical music. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mikhail Glinka has received more than 715,295 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 62 in 2019). Mikhail Glinka is the 126th most popular composer (down from 105th in 2019), the 159th most popular biography from Russia (down from 128th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Russian Composer.

Mikhail Glinka is most famous for his opera A Life for the Tsar.

Memorability Metrics

  • 720k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 67.11

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 63

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.50

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Mikhail Glinka ranks 126 out of 1,451. Before him are Muzio Clementi, Krzysztof Penderecki, Josef Strauss, Emmerich Kálmán, Max Bruch, and Girolamo Frescobaldi. After him are Daniel Auber, Benjamin Britten, Carl Nielsen, Maurice Jarre, Domenico Cimarosa, and Johann Nepomuk Hummel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1804, Mikhail Glinka ranks 12. Before him are Benjamin Disraeli, Wilhelm Eduard Weber, Emil Lenz, Allan Kardec, Matthias Jakob Schleiden, and Mongkut. After him are Nathaniel Hawthorne, Richard Owen, Marie Taglioni, Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, Eugène Sue, and John Deere. Among people deceased in 1857, Mikhail Glinka ranks 8. Before him are Augustin-Louis Cauchy, Carl Czerny, Archduchess Sophie of Austria, Eugène François Vidocq, Alfred de Musset, and Dominic Savio. After him are Eugène Sue, Charles Lucien Bonaparte, Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, Francis Beaufort, Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, and Pierre-Jean de Béranger.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Mikhail Glinka ranks 159 out of 3,761. Before him are Andrey Kolmogorov (1903), Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884), Käthe Kollwitz (1867), Anatoly Dyatlov (1931), Feodor II of Russia (1589), and Boris Berezovsky (1946). After him are Alexander Friedmann (1888), Felix Steiner (1896), Alla Pugacheva (1949), Stenka Razin (1630), Ivan Shishkin (1832), and Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich of Russia (1779).

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Among COMPOSERS In Russia

Among composers born in Russia, Mikhail Glinka ranks 10. Before him are Dmitri Shostakovich (1906), Modest Mussorgsky (1839), Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844), Alexander Scriabin (1871), Alexander Borodin (1833), and Mily Balakirev (1837). After him are Dmitry Kabalevsky (1904), Sofia Gubaidulina (1931), Alfred Schnittke (1934), Otto Nicolai (1810), Irving Berlin (1888), and Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov (1883).

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