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Nikolai Medtner

1879 - 1951

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Nikolai Karlovich Medtner (Russian: Николай Карлович Метнер, romanized: Nikolay Karlovich Metner; 5 January 1880 [O.S. 24 December 1879] – 13 November 1951) was a Russian composer and virtuoso pianist. After a period of comparative obscurity in the 25 years immediately after his death, he is now becoming recognized as one of the most significant Russian composers for the piano.A younger contemporary of Sergei Rachmaninoff and Alexander Scriabin, he wrote a substantial number of compositions, all of which include the piano. His works include 14 piano sonatas, three violin sonatas, three piano concerti, a piano quintet, two works for two pianos, many shorter piano pieces, a few shorter works for violin and piano, and 108 songs including two substantial works for vocalise. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nikolai Medtner has received more than 312,908 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Nikolai Medtner is the 429th most popular composer (down from 414th in 2019), the 579th most popular biography from Russia (down from 523rd in 2019) and the 21st most popular Russian Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Nikolai Medtner ranks 429 out of 1,216Before him are Pierre de la Rue, Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Hans Leo Hassler, Mykola Lysenko, Ferdinand Hiller, and Charles Auguste de Bériot. After him are Claudio Merulo, Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, Ichirou Mizuki, William Walton, Ariel Ramírez, and Vasily Kalinnikov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Nikolai Medtner ranks 55Before him are Max Schreck, Edward Steichen, Bedřich Hrozný, Hisaichi Terauchi, Adolf Strauss, and Alfred Korzybski. After him are Periyar E. V. Ramasamy, William Fox, Ethel Barrymore, Agrippina Vaganova, Marius Jacob, and Henri Wallon. Among people deceased in 1951, Nikolai Medtner ranks 41Before him are Émile Chartier, Fritz Thyssen, Sadegh Hedayat, Soh Jaipil, Erich Naumann, and Kijūrō Shidehara. After him are Katarzyna Kobro, Agrippina Vaganova, Henrietta Lacks, Serge Koussevitzky, Ernst von Weizsäcker, and Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikolai Medtner ranks 579 out of 3,262Before him are Matvei Zakharov (1898), Nicholas of Japan (1836), Sergei Dovlatov (1941), Alexander Belyaev (1884), Vladimir Shukhov (1853), and Yevgeny Leonov (1926). After him are Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova (1835), Irina Rodnina (1949), Katarzyna Kobro (1898), Dmitry Merezhkovsky (1866), Markian Popov (1902), and Chaim Rumkowski (1877).

Among COMPOSERS In Russia

Among composers born in Russia, Nikolai Medtner ranks 21Before him are Otto Nicolai (1810), Anton Arensky (1861), Sergei Taneyev (1856), Rodion Shchedrin (1932), Anatoly Lyadov (1855), and Alexander Dargomyzhsky (1813). After him are Vasily Kalinnikov (1866), Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov (1859), Hans Pfitzner (1869), Gennady Rozhdestvensky (1931), Georgy Sviridov (1915), and Sergei Lyapunov (1859).