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Nikolay Diletsky

1630 - 1681

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Nikolay Diletsky (Ukrainian: Микола Дилецький, Mykola Dyletsky, Russian: Николай Павлович Дилецкий, Nikolay Pavlovich Diletsky, Nikolai Diletskii, Polish: Mikołaj Dilecki, also Mikolaj Dylecki, Nikolai Dilezki, etc.; c. 1630, Kiev – after 1680, Moscow) was a music theorist and composer born in the Kiev Voivodeship of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and active in Russia. He was widely influential in late 17th-century Russia with his treatise on musical composition, A Musical Grammar, of which the earliest surviving version dates from 1677. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nikolay Diletsky has received more than 61,604 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Nikolay Diletsky is the 818th most popular composer, the 464th most popular biography from Ukraine and the 20th most popular Ukrainian Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Nikolay Diletsky ranks 818 out of 1,451Before him are Jean-Henri d'Anglebert, Michel Blavet, Philippe de Monte, Pierre Attaingnant, Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens, and Keiko Abe. After him are Nannette Streicher, Heino Eller, Robert Cambert, Adalbert Gyrowetz, Alexander Mosolov, and John Taverner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1630, Nikolay Diletsky ranks 18Before him are Louis VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Pjetër Bogdani, Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts, Roche Braziliano, Pierre Daniel Huet, and Maria van Oosterwijck. After him are Guru Har Rai, Sophie Augusta of Holstein-Gottorp, Lorenzo Gafà, Cornelis Pietersz Bega, Silvestro Valier, and Jean Richer. Among people deceased in 1681, Nikolay Diletsky ranks 13Before him are Justus Sustermans, Nicodemus Tessin the Elder, Frans van Mieris the Elder, Magdalena Sibylla of Saxe-Weissenfels, Frederick Louis, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, and William Christoph, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg. After him are Maurice, Duke of Saxe-Zeitz, Hermann Conring, Agafya Grushetskaya, Oliver Plunkett, and Fatima Soltan.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Nikolay Diletsky ranks 464 out of 1,365Before him are Sydir Kovpak (1887), Abraham Goldfaden (1840), Yevhen Marchuk (1941), Oleksandr Korniychuk (1905), Demyan Bedny (1883), and Dmitry Bogrov (1887). After him are Kazimierz Bartel (1882), Sergei Kovalev (1930), Vera Kholodnaya (1893), Jan Puzyna de Kosielsko (1842), Yozhef Sabo (1940), and Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz (1894).

Among COMPOSERS In Ukraine

Among composers born in Ukraine, Nikolay Diletsky ranks 20Before him are Myroslav Skoryk (1938), Sergei Bortkiewicz (1877), Ciprian Porumbescu (1853), Alexander Spendiaryan (1871), Emil Paur (1855), and Isaak Dunayevsky (1900). After him are Alexander Mosolov (1900), Yuri Shaporin (1887), Roman Vlad (1919), Semen Hulak-Artemovsky (1813), Heinrich Schenker (1868), and Yevhen Stankovych (1942).