1839 - 1881
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (Russian: Модест Петрович Мусоргский, tr. Modest Petrovich Musorgsky, 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 1,478,035 page views. His biography is available in 75 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 74 in 2019). Modest Mussorgsky is the 38th most popular composer (down from 34th in 2019), the 40th most popular biography from Russia (down from 29th in 2019) and the 5th 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 38 out of 1,216. Before him are Sergei Rachmaninoff, Maurice Ravel, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Richard Strauss, Sergei Prokofiev, and Johann Strauss I. After him are Jean Sibelius, Béla Bartók, Camille Saint-Saëns, Guido of Arezzo, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, and Gaetano Donizetti.
1873 - 1943
HPI: 77.57
Rank: 32
1875 - 1937
HPI: 77.40
Rank: 33
1714 - 1787
HPI: 76.78
Rank: 34
1864 - 1949
HPI: 76.76
Rank: 35
1891 - 1953
HPI: 76.67
Rank: 36
1804 - 1849
HPI: 76.60
Rank: 37
1839 - 1881
HPI: 76.35
Rank: 38
1865 - 1957
HPI: 76.20
Rank: 39
1881 - 1945
HPI: 76.16
Rank: 40
1835 - 1921
HPI: 76.03
Rank: 41
991 - 1050
HPI: 75.43
Rank: 42
1844 - 1908
HPI: 75.40
Rank: 43
1797 - 1848
HPI: 75.19
Rank: 44
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, Carol I of Romania, George Armstrong Custer, Josiah Willard Gibbs, Karl Theodor, Duke in Bavaria, Josephine Cochrane, and Nikolay Przhevalsky. Among people deceased in 1881, Modest Mussorgsky ranks 3. Before him are Fyodor Dostoevsky and Alexander II of Russia. After him are Billy the Kid, Benjamin Disraeli, Lewis H. Morgan, James A. Garfield, Thomas Carlyle, Matthias Jakob Schleiden, Louis Auguste Blanqui, Auguste Mariette, and Jenny von Westphalen.
1839 - 1906
HPI: 82.12
Rank: 1
1839 - 1937
HPI: 77.60
Rank: 2
1839 - 1881
HPI: 76.35
Rank: 3
1839 - 1907
HPI: 75.84
Rank: 4
1839 - 1899
HPI: 73.99
Rank: 5
1839 - 1914
HPI: 70.93
Rank: 6
1839 - 1914
HPI: 67.15
Rank: 7
1839 - 1876
HPI: 67.11
Rank: 8
1839 - 1903
HPI: 65.84
Rank: 9
1839 - 1909
HPI: 64.89
Rank: 10
1839 - 1913
HPI: 64.67
Rank: 11
1839 - 1888
HPI: 63.29
Rank: 12
1821 - 1881
HPI: 88.66
Rank: 1
1818 - 1881
HPI: 76.40
Rank: 2
1839 - 1881
HPI: 76.35
Rank: 3
1859 - 1881
HPI: 73.69
Rank: 4
1804 - 1881
HPI: 69.83
Rank: 5
1818 - 1881
HPI: 68.86
Rank: 6
1831 - 1881
HPI: 68.53
Rank: 7
1795 - 1881
HPI: 66.04
Rank: 8
1804 - 1881
HPI: 65.79
Rank: 9
1805 - 1881
HPI: 65.25
Rank: 10
1821 - 1881
HPI: 62.95
Rank: 11
1814 - 1881
HPI: 62.57
Rank: 12
Among people born in Russia, Modest Mussorgsky ranks 40 out of 3,262. Before him are Georgy Zhukov (1896), Valentina Tereshkova (1937), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918), Mikhail Kalashnikov (1919), Elizabeth of Russia (1709), and Alexander II of Russia (1818). After him are Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (1901), Konstantin Chernenko (1911), Vyacheslav Molotov (1890), Boris Pasternak (1890), Yul Brynner (1920), and Vladimir Nabokov (1899).
1896 - 1974
HPI: 77.08
Rank: 34
1937 - Present
HPI: 77.01
Rank: 35
1918 - 2008
HPI: 76.67
Rank: 36
1919 - 2013
HPI: 76.61
Rank: 37
1709 - 1762
HPI: 76.49
Rank: 38
1818 - 1881
HPI: 76.40
Rank: 39
1839 - 1881
HPI: 76.35
Rank: 40
1901 - 1918
HPI: 76.31
Rank: 41
1911 - 1985
HPI: 76.28
Rank: 42
1890 - 1986
HPI: 76.27
Rank: 43
1890 - 1960
HPI: 76.24
Rank: 44
1920 - 1985
HPI: 76.01
Rank: 45
1899 - 1977
HPI: 76.00
Rank: 46
Among composers born in Russia, Modest Mussorgsky ranks 5. Before him are Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840), Igor Stravinsky (1882), Dmitri Shostakovich (1906), and Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873). After him are Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844), Alexander Scriabin (1871), Alexander Borodin (1833), Mikhail Glinka (1804), Mily Balakirev (1837), Dmitry Kabalevsky (1904), and Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov (1883).
1840 - 1893
HPI: 83.33
Rank: 1
1882 - 1971
HPI: 80.13
Rank: 2
1906 - 1975
HPI: 77.80
Rank: 3
1873 - 1943
HPI: 77.57
Rank: 4
1839 - 1881
HPI: 76.35
Rank: 5
1844 - 1908
HPI: 75.40
Rank: 6
1871 - 1915
HPI: 72.39
Rank: 7
1833 - 1887
HPI: 71.84
Rank: 8
1804 - 1857
HPI: 68.52
Rank: 9
1837 - 1910
HPI: 68.29
Rank: 10
1904 - 1986
HPI: 64.63
Rank: 11
1883 - 1946
HPI: 64.18
Rank: 12