COMPOSER

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

1840 - 1893

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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ( chy-KOF-skee; 7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893) was a Russian composer during the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music would make a lasting impression internationally. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky has received more than 9,233,806 page views. His biography is available in 153 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 148 in 2019). Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is the 14th most popular composer (down from 11th in 2019), the 12th most popular biography from Russia (up from 14th in 2019) and the most popular Russian Composer.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is most famous for his orchestral compositions, including the 1812 Overture, the Nutcracker Suite, and Swan Lake.

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  • 9.2M

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  • 82.37

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 153

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.17

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ranks 14 out of 1,451. Before him are Joseph Haydn, Franz Schubert, George Frideric Handel, Robert Schumann, Antonín Dvořák, and Gustav Mahler. After him are Johannes Brahms, Giacomo Puccini, Edvard Grieg, Gioachino Rossini, Felix Mendelssohn, and Georges Bizet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1840, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ranks 2. Before him is Claude Monet. After him are Émile Zola, Auguste Rodin, Crazy Horse, Murad V, Victoria, Princess Royal, Alphonse Daudet, Odilon Redon, Edward Drinker Cope, Carl Menger, and Ernst Abbe. Among people deceased in 1893, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ranks 1. After him are Guy de Maupassant, Charles Gounod, Jean-Martin Charcot, Patrice de MacMahon, Hippolyte Taine, Alexander of Battenberg, Rutherford B. Hayes, Jan Matejko, Edwin Booth, Josef Stefan, and Jules Ferry.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ranks 12 out of 3,761. Before him are Yuri Gagarin (1934), Mikhail Gorbachev (1931), Dmitri Mendeleev (1834), Anton Chekhov (1860), Peter the Great (1672), and Nikita Khrushchev (1894). After him are Nicholas II of Russia (1868), Grigori Rasputin (1869), Alexander Pushkin (1799), Ivan the Terrible (1530), Boris Yeltsin (1931), and Kim Jong-il (1941).

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Among COMPOSERS In Russia

Among composers born in Russia, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ranks 1. After him are Igor Stravinsky (1882), Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873), Dmitri Shostakovich (1906), Modest Mussorgsky (1839), Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844), Alexander Scriabin (1871), Alexander Borodin (1833), Mily Balakirev (1837), Mikhail Glinka (1804), Dmitry Kabalevsky (1904), and Sofia Gubaidulina (1931).

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