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Mykola Lysenko

1842 - 1912

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Mykola Vitaliiovych Lysenko (Ukrainian: Микола Віталійович Лисенко; 22 March 1842 – 6 November 1912) was a Ukrainian composer, pianist, conductor and ethnomusicologist of the late Romantic period. In his time he was the central figure of Ukrainian music, with an oeuvre that includes operas, art songs, choral works, orchestral and chamber pieces, and a wide variety of solo piano music. He is often credited with founding a national music tradition during the Ukrainian national revival, in the vein of contemporaries such as Grieg in Norway, The Five in Russia as well as Smetana and Dvořák in what is now the Czech Republic. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mykola Lysenko has received more than 151,448 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Mykola Lysenko is the 426th most popular composer (up from 473rd in 2019), the 212th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 222nd in 2019) and the 8th most popular Ukrainian Composer.

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  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.20

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Mykola Lysenko ranks 426 out of 1,216. Before him are Princess Cecilia of Sweden, Heinrich Marschner, Johann Christoph Bach, Pierre de la Rue, Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, and Hans Leo Hassler. After him are Ferdinand Hiller, Charles Auguste de Bériot, Nikolai Medtner, Claudio Merulo, Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, and Ichirou Mizuki.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1842, Mykola Lysenko ranks 34. Before him are Giovanni Boldini, Édouard Lucas, Johannes Zukertort, Vilhelm Thomsen, Ōyama Iwao, and Catherine Eddowes. After him are Alphonse Borrelly, Gaston, Count of Eu, Georg Ritter von Schönerer, Charles Cros, Maria Konopnicka, and Osman Hamdi Bey. Among people deceased in 1912, Mykola Lysenko ranks 39. Before him are William Booth, Princess Elisabeth of Saxony, Ion Luca Caragiale, Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, Wallace Hartley, and Nicholas of Japan. After him are Isidor Straus, Grand Duchess Vera Konstantinovna of Russia, Voltairine de Cleyre, Duchess Amalie in Bavaria, Eduard Strasburger, and Duchess Marie Gabrielle in Bavaria.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Mykola Lysenko ranks 212 out of 1,083. Before him are Sidney Reilly (1873), Gregor Piatigorsky (1903), Israel Gelfand (1913), Lyudmila Gurchenko (1935), Polina Zhemchuzhina (1897), and Petro Doroshenko (1627). After him are Nathan Milstein (1902), Stephen Timoshenko (1878), Samuel Noah Kramer (1897), Cyril Genik (1857), Michael Rostovtzeff (1870), and Alexander Vertinsky (1889).

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Among COMPOSERS In Ukraine

Among composers born in Ukraine, Mykola Lysenko ranks 8. Before him are Karol Szymanowski (1882), Reinhold Glière (1874), Dmitry Bortniansky (1751), Stefania Turkewich (1898), Dimitri Tiomkin (1894), and Wojciech Kilar (1932). After him are Igor Markevitch (1912), Valentyn Sylvestrov (1937), Franz Doppler (1821), Ciprian Porumbescu (1853), Maxim Berezovsky (1745), and Boris Lyatoshinsky (1894).

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