MUSICIAN

Nikolai Rubinstein

1835 - 1881

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Nikolai Grigoryevich Rubinstein (Russian: Николай Григорьевич Рубинштейн; 14 June [O.S. 2 June] 1835 – 23 March [O.S. 11 March] 1881) was a Russian pianist, conductor, and composer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nikolai Rubinstein has received more than 231,878 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Nikolai Rubinstein is the 203rd most popular musician (down from 196th in 2019), the 353rd most popular biography from Russia (down from 347th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Russian Musician.

Nikolai Rubinstein is most famous for being a pianist and the first husband of composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

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Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Nikolai Rubinstein ranks 203 out of 3,175Before him are Abdel Halim Hafez, Wilhelm Kempff, Ike Turner, Willie Nelson, Kitarō, and Amy Winehouse. After him are Stan Getz, Gidon Kremer, Clara Haskil, Ken Hensley, Violeta Parra, and Joe Jackson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, Nikolai Rubinstein ranks 20Before him are William Stanley Jevons, Fukuzawa Yukichi, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Josef Stefan, Eduard Strauss, and Demetrius Vikelas. After him are Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern, Sai Baba of Shirdi, Iwasaki Yatarō, Adolph Wagner, Hijikata Toshizō, and Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany. Among people deceased in 1881, Nikolai Rubinstein ranks 16Before him are Louis Auguste Blanqui, Thomas Carlyle, Auguste Mariette, Henri Vieuxtemps, Nikolay Pirogov, and Henri-Frédéric Amiel. After him are Empress Dowager Ci'an, Caroline Amalie of Augustenburg, Theobald Boehm, Hermann Lotze, Pierre Napoléon Bonaparte, and Eduard Heine.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikolai Rubinstein ranks 353 out of 3,761Before him are Alfred Schnittke (1934), Otto Nicolai (1810), Grigory Orlov (1734), Valentin Serov (1865), Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia (1875), and Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov (1806). After him are Alexander Danilovich Menshikov (1673), Nikolai Kuznetsov (1904), Ivan Silayev (1930), Sergius of Radonezh (1314), Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia (1858), and Vasily Zhukovsky (1783).

Among MUSICIANS In Russia

Among musicians born in Russia, Nikolai Rubinstein ranks 3Before him are Alexander Glazunov (1865), and Vladimir Ashkenazy (1937). After him are Grigory Sokolov (1950), Valery Gergiev (1953), Maria Yudina (1899), Lazar Berman (1930), Edgar Froese (1944), Evgeny Kissin (1971), Maxim Shostakovich (1938), Vladimir Sofronitsky (1901), and Mikhail Pletnev (1957).