COMPOSER

Mikhail Gnessin

1883 - 1957

Photo of Mikhail Gnessin

Icon of person Mikhail Gnessin

Mikhail Fabianovich Gnessin (Russian: Михаил Фабианович Гнесин; sometimes transcribed Gnesin; 2 February [O.S. 21 January] 1883 – 5 May 1957) was a Russian Jewish composer and teacher. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mikhail Gnessin has received more than 30,855 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Mikhail Gnessin is the 1,190th most popular composer (down from 1,120th in 2019), the 1,890th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,642nd in 2019) and the 55th most popular Russian Composer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 31k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.37

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.18

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.83

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Mikhail Gnessin ranks 1,190 out of 1,451Before him are Tadeusz Baird, Andrey Petrov, Peter Arnold Heise, Hilding Rosenberg, Hans Gál, and Henk Badings. After him are Shlomo Mintz, Elza Ibrahimova, Tofig Guliyev, Brad Fiedel, Harrison Birtwistle, and Mychael Danna.

Most Popular Composers in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Mikhail Gnessin ranks 210Before him are Pietro Bianchi, Ignaty Krachkovsky, Dorothy Holman, Baltasar Brum, Ford Sterling, and František Drtikol. After him are Pencho Zlatev, Károly Kós, Pentti Eskola, Charles Sheeler, Abdul Muis, and Edith Clarke. Among people deceased in 1957, Mikhail Gnessin ranks 173Before him are Karl Patterson Schmidt, Robert Lowie, Maurice McLoughlin, Patrick Abercrombie, Robert Esnault-Pelterie, and Roger Vercel. After him are Wyndham Lewis, Carl Størmer, Percy Hobart, Devdas Gandhi, Anna Haava, and Alfredo Gollini.

Others Born in 1883

Go to all Rankings

Others Deceased in 1957

Go to all Rankings

In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Mikhail Gnessin ranks 1,890 out of 3,761Before him are Nikolay Latyshev (1913), Svetlana Gannushkina (1942), Valentin Muratov (1928), Matvey Kazakov (1738), Gennady Burbulis (1945), and Gavriil Popov (1936). After him are Aron Gurevich (1924), Viktor Konovalenko (1938), Boris Livanov (1904), Igor Kirillov (1932), Natalia Bessmertnova (1941), and Shlomo Mintz (1957).

Among COMPOSERS In Russia

Among composers born in Russia, Mikhail Gnessin ranks 55Before him are Alexander Serov (1820), Sergei Vasilenko (1872), Nicolas Slonimsky (1894), Valeri Brainin (1948), Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov (1936), and Andrey Petrov (1930). After him are Shlomo Mintz (1957), Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi (1907), Andrei Eshpai (1925), Gavriil Popov (1904), Sergei Slonimsky (1932), and Dimitri Arakishvili (1873).