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MUSICIAN

Nikolai Kapustin

1937 - 2020

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Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin (Russian: Никола́й Ги́ршевич Капу́стин Russian pronunciation: [kɐˈpustʲɪn]; 22 November 1937 – 2 July 2020) was a Soviet composer and pianist of Russian-Jewish descent. He played with early Soviet jazz bands such as the Oleg Lundstrem Orchestra. In his compositions, mostly for piano, he used a fusion of jazz and classical forms. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nikolai Kapustin has received more than 298,989 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Nikolai Kapustin is the 386th most popular musician (down from 334th in 2019), the 227th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 183rd in 2019) and the 11th most popular Ukrainian Musician.

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Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Nikolai Kapustin ranks 386 out of 2,662Before him are Barış Manço, Géza Anda, Janick Gers, Paul Badura-Skoda, Rezső Seress, and Tony Levin. After him are Glenn Tipton, Buddy Guy, Pat Martino, Arthur Grumiaux, Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach, and Moondog.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Nikolai Kapustin ranks 105Before him are Francis Veber, Roberta Flack, Valentyn Sylvestrov, Prince Max, Duke in Bavaria, Ange-Félix Patassé, and Kōichirō Matsuura. After him are Rubin Carter, Peter Burke, Robert Gallo, Tsukasa Hosaka, Rifaat al-Assad, and Joseph Kobzon. Among people deceased in 2020, Nikolai Kapustin ranks 107Before him are Gérard Houllier, David Prowse, Abdul Halim Khaddam, Amadou Toumani Touré, Sergio Rossi, and Jānis Lūsis. After him are Claude Brasseur, Fred Willard, Rocky Johnson, Ivry Gitlis, Harry Gregg, and Mamadou Tandja.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Nikolai Kapustin ranks 227 out of 1,083Before him are Igor Markevitch (1912), Efim Bogoljubov (1889), Pavel Sudoplatov (1907), Valentyn Sylvestrov (1937), Alexandru Averescu (1859), and Stanisław Sosabowski (1892). After him are Waldemar Haffkine (1860), Michael of Chernigov (1185), Ida Kamińska (1899), Ahad Ha'am (1856), Vladimir Dal (1801), and Alexander Marinesko (1913).

Among MUSICIANS In Ukraine

Among musicians born in Ukraine, Nikolai Kapustin ranks 11Before him are Isaac Stern (1920), Heinrich Neuhaus (1888), Leonid Kogan (1924), Igor Oistrakh (1931), Gregor Piatigorsky (1903), and Nathan Milstein (1902). After him are Alexander Siloti (1863), Arkady Luxemburg (1939), Felix Blumenfeld (1863), Karol Mikuli (1821), Yakov Zak (1913), and Mischa Elman (1891).