1879 - 1951
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, Nikolai Medtner ranks 429 out of 1,216. Before 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.
1460 - 1518
HPI: 57.24
Rank: 423
1676 - 1749
HPI: 57.20
Rank: 424
1564 - 1612
HPI: 57.16
Rank: 425
1842 - 1912
HPI: 57.16
Rank: 426
1811 - 1885
HPI: 57.15
Rank: 427
1802 - 1870
HPI: 57.14
Rank: 428
1879 - 1951
HPI: 57.14
Rank: 429
1533 - 1604
HPI: 57.13
Rank: 430
1640 - 1700
HPI: 57.06
Rank: 431
1948 - 2022
HPI: 57.05
Rank: 432
1902 - 1983
HPI: 57.04
Rank: 433
1921 - 2010
HPI: 57.03
Rank: 434
1866 - 1900
HPI: 57.02
Rank: 435
Among people born in 1879, Nikolai Medtner ranks 55. Before 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 41. Before 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.
1879 - 1936
HPI: 58.65
Rank: 49
1879 - 1973
HPI: 58.57
Rank: 50
1879 - 1952
HPI: 58.57
Rank: 51
1879 - 1946
HPI: 58.54
Rank: 52
1879 - 1973
HPI: 58.10
Rank: 53
1879 - 1950
HPI: 57.58
Rank: 54
1879 - 1951
HPI: 57.14
Rank: 55
1879 - 1973
HPI: 57.07
Rank: 56
1879 - 1952
HPI: 56.99
Rank: 57
1879 - 1959
HPI: 56.91
Rank: 58
1879 - 1951
HPI: 56.86
Rank: 59
1879 - 1954
HPI: 56.69
Rank: 60
1879 - 1962
HPI: 56.64
Rank: 61
1868 - 1951
HPI: 58.73
Rank: 35
1873 - 1951
HPI: 58.52
Rank: 36
1903 - 1951
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 37
1864 - 1951
HPI: 58.14
Rank: 38
1905 - 1951
HPI: 57.82
Rank: 39
1872 - 1951
HPI: 57.64
Rank: 40
1879 - 1951
HPI: 57.14
Rank: 41
1898 - 1951
HPI: 57.05
Rank: 42
1879 - 1951
HPI: 56.86
Rank: 43
1920 - 1951
HPI: 56.85
Rank: 44
1874 - 1951
HPI: 56.62
Rank: 45
1882 - 1951
HPI: 56.60
Rank: 46
1891 - 1951
HPI: 56.55
Rank: 47
Among people born in Russia, Nikolai Medtner ranks 579 out of 3,262. Before 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).
1898 - 1972
HPI: 57.21
Rank: 573
1836 - 1912
HPI: 57.19
Rank: 574
1941 - 1990
HPI: 57.18
Rank: 575
1884 - 1942
HPI: 57.18
Rank: 576
1853 - 1939
HPI: 57.18
Rank: 577
1926 - 1994
HPI: 57.15
Rank: 578
1879 - 1951
HPI: 57.14
Rank: 579
1835 - 1916
HPI: 57.09
Rank: 580
1949 - Present
HPI: 57.06
Rank: 581
1898 - 1951
HPI: 57.05
Rank: 582
1866 - 1941
HPI: 57.04
Rank: 583
1902 - 1969
HPI: 57.03
Rank: 584
1877 - 1944
HPI: 57.02
Rank: 585
Among composers born in Russia, Nikolai Medtner ranks 21. Before 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).
1810 - 1849
HPI: 61.53
Rank: 15
1861 - 1906
HPI: 61.25
Rank: 16
1856 - 1915
HPI: 59.33
Rank: 17
1932 - Present
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 18
1855 - 1914
HPI: 57.71
Rank: 19
1813 - 1869
HPI: 57.39
Rank: 20
1879 - 1951
HPI: 57.14
Rank: 21
1866 - 1900
HPI: 57.02
Rank: 22
1859 - 1935
HPI: 56.95
Rank: 23
1869 - 1949
HPI: 56.28
Rank: 24
1931 - 2018
HPI: 55.65
Rank: 25
1915 - 1998
HPI: 55.16
Rank: 26
1859 - 1924
HPI: 55.10
Rank: 27