1839 - 1881
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (Russian: Модест Петрович Мусоргский, tr. Modést Petróvich Músorgskiy, IPA: [mɐˈdɛst pʲɪˈtrovʲɪtɕ ˈmusərkskʲɪj] (listen); 21 March [O.S. 9 March] 1839 – 28 March [O.S. 16 March] 1881) was a Russian composer, one of the group known as "The Five". He was an innovator of Russian music in the Romantic period. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Modest Mussorgsky has received more than 1,042,114 page views. His biography is available in 74 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 70 in 2019). Modest Mussorgsky is the 34th most popular composer (up from 39th in 2019), the 29th most popular biography from Russia (up from 41st in 2019) and the 4th most popular Russian Composer.
Modest Mussorgsky is most famous for his opera "Boris Godunov" and his compositions "Pictures at an Exhibition" and "Night on Bald Mountain."
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Among composers, Modest Mussorgsky ranks 34 out of 1,228. Before him are Johann Strauss II, Dmitri Shostakovich, Antonio Salieri, Sergei Prokofiev, Jacques Offenbach, and Christoph Willibald Gluck. After him are Sergei Rachmaninoff, Richard Strauss, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Camille Saint-Saëns, Jean Sibelius, and Claudio Monteverdi.
1825 - 1899
HPI: 83.54
Rank: 28
1906 - 1975
HPI: 82.97
Rank: 29
1750 - 1825
HPI: 82.96
Rank: 30
1891 - 1953
HPI: 82.85
Rank: 31
1819 - 1880
HPI: 82.74
Rank: 32
1714 - 1787
HPI: 82.68
Rank: 33
1839 - 1881
HPI: 82.66
Rank: 34
1873 - 1943
HPI: 82.60
Rank: 35
1864 - 1949
HPI: 82.41
Rank: 36
1844 - 1908
HPI: 82.35
Rank: 37
1835 - 1921
HPI: 82.33
Rank: 38
1865 - 1957
HPI: 82.28
Rank: 39
1567 - 1643
HPI: 82.24
Rank: 40
Among people born in 1839, Modest Mussorgsky ranks 3. Before him are Paul Cézanne and John D. Rockefeller. After him are Sully Prudhomme, Alfred Sisley, Charles Sanders Peirce, George Armstrong Custer, Carol I of Romania, Josiah Willard Gibbs, Josephine Cochrane, Karl Theodor, Duke in Bavaria, and Machado de Assis. Among people deceased in 1881, Modest Mussorgsky ranks 2. Before him is Fyodor Dostoevsky. After him are Alexander II of Russia, Billy the Kid, Benjamin Disraeli, James A. Garfield, Thomas Carlyle, Lewis H. Morgan, Louis Auguste Blanqui, Matthias Jakob Schleiden, Jenny von Westphalen, and Henri Vieuxtemps.
1839 - 1906
HPI: 86.76
Rank: 1
1839 - 1937
HPI: 83.49
Rank: 2
1839 - 1881
HPI: 82.66
Rank: 3
1839 - 1907
HPI: 81.04
Rank: 4
1839 - 1899
HPI: 79.74
Rank: 5
1839 - 1914
HPI: 78.47
Rank: 6
1839 - 1876
HPI: 75.56
Rank: 7
1839 - 1914
HPI: 74.72
Rank: 8
1839 - 1903
HPI: 74.07
Rank: 9
1839 - 1913
HPI: 73.88
Rank: 10
1839 - 1909
HPI: 71.66
Rank: 11
1839 - 1908
HPI: 71.27
Rank: 12
1821 - 1881
HPI: 91.42
Rank: 1
1839 - 1881
HPI: 82.66
Rank: 2
1818 - 1881
HPI: 81.63
Rank: 3
1859 - 1881
HPI: 78.72
Rank: 4
1804 - 1881
HPI: 76.77
Rank: 5
1831 - 1881
HPI: 76.01
Rank: 6
1795 - 1881
HPI: 74.41
Rank: 7
1818 - 1881
HPI: 73.98
Rank: 8
1805 - 1881
HPI: 73.76
Rank: 9
1804 - 1881
HPI: 72.30
Rank: 10
1814 - 1881
HPI: 72.16
Rank: 11
1820 - 1881
HPI: 72.12
Rank: 12
Among people born in Russia, Modest Mussorgsky ranks 29 out of 2,688. Before him are Ayn Rand (1905), Isaac Asimov (1920), Alexander I of Russia (1777), Mikhail Bakunin (1814), Yul Brynner (1920), and Dmitri Shostakovich (1906). After him are Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873), Ivan Turgenev (1818), Nicholas I of Russia (1796), Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844), Alexander III of Russia (1845), and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918).
1905 - 1982
HPI: 84.20
Rank: 23
1920 - 1992
HPI: 83.85
Rank: 24
1777 - 1825
HPI: 83.26
Rank: 25
1814 - 1876
HPI: 83.25
Rank: 26
1920 - 1985
HPI: 83.03
Rank: 27
1906 - 1975
HPI: 82.97
Rank: 28
1839 - 1881
HPI: 82.66
Rank: 29
1873 - 1943
HPI: 82.60
Rank: 30
1818 - 1883
HPI: 82.56
Rank: 31
1796 - 1855
HPI: 82.39
Rank: 32
1844 - 1908
HPI: 82.35
Rank: 33
1845 - 1894
HPI: 82.31
Rank: 34
1918 - 2008
HPI: 82.30
Rank: 35
Among composers born in Russia, Modest Mussorgsky ranks 4. Before him are Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840), Igor Stravinsky (1882), and Dmitri Shostakovich (1906). After him are Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873), Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844), Alexander Borodin (1833), Alexander Scriabin (1871), Mikhail Glinka (1804), Mily Balakirev (1837), Dmitry Kabalevsky (1904), and Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov (1883).
1840 - 1893
HPI: 88.38
Rank: 1
1882 - 1971
HPI: 85.30
Rank: 2
1906 - 1975
HPI: 82.97
Rank: 3
1839 - 1881
HPI: 82.66
Rank: 4
1873 - 1943
HPI: 82.60
Rank: 5
1844 - 1908
HPI: 82.35
Rank: 6
1833 - 1887
HPI: 80.00
Rank: 7
1871 - 1915
HPI: 78.42
Rank: 8
1804 - 1857
HPI: 78.06
Rank: 9
1837 - 1910
HPI: 76.64
Rank: 10
1904 - 1986
HPI: 72.53
Rank: 11
1883 - 1946
HPI: 72.51
Rank: 12