1840 - 1893
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ( chy-KOF-skee; Russian: Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский, IPA: [pʲɵtr ɪlʲˈjitɕ tɕɪjˈkofskʲɪj] (listen); 7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893) was a Russian composer of the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music made a lasting impression internationally. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky has received more than 5,166,933 page views. His biography is available in 142 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 139 in 2019). Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is the 11th most popular composer (down from 6th in 2019), the 7th most popular biography from Russia (down from 5th 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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Among composers, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ranks 11 out of 1,228. Before him are Frédéric Chopin, Joseph Haydn, Giuseppe Verdi, Richard Wagner, George Frideric Handel, and Franz Schubert. After him are Gustav Mahler, Johannes Brahms, Robert Schumann, Edvard Grieg, Ennio Morricone, and Antonín Dvořák.
1810 - 1849
HPI: 91.60
Rank: 5
1732 - 1809
HPI: 90.21
Rank: 6
1813 - 1901
HPI: 89.79
Rank: 7
1813 - 1883
HPI: 89.39
Rank: 8
1685 - 1759
HPI: 89.20
Rank: 9
1797 - 1828
HPI: 89.11
Rank: 10
1840 - 1893
HPI: 88.38
Rank: 11
1860 - 1911
HPI: 86.86
Rank: 12
1833 - 1897
HPI: 86.84
Rank: 13
1810 - 1856
HPI: 86.35
Rank: 14
1843 - 1907
HPI: 86.31
Rank: 15
1928 - 2020
HPI: 85.91
Rank: 16
1841 - 1904
HPI: 85.62
Rank: 17
Among people born in 1840, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ranks 2. Before him is Claude Monet. After him are Émile Zola, Auguste Rodin, Murad V, Victoria, Princess Royal, Alphonse Daudet, Odilon Redon, Ernst Abbe, Carlota of Mexico, Crazy Horse, and Edward Drinker Cope. 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, Rutherford B. Hayes, Josef Stefan, Alexander of Battenberg, Jan Matejko, John Tyndall, and Ernst Kummer.
1840 - 1926
HPI: 89.34
Rank: 1
1840 - 1893
HPI: 88.38
Rank: 2
1840 - 1902
HPI: 86.69
Rank: 3
1840 - 1917
HPI: 84.89
Rank: 4
1840 - 1904
HPI: 79.40
Rank: 5
1840 - 1901
HPI: 79.01
Rank: 6
1840 - 1897
HPI: 77.98
Rank: 7
1840 - 1916
HPI: 76.06
Rank: 8
1840 - 1905
HPI: 75.23
Rank: 9
1840 - 1927
HPI: 75.07
Rank: 10
1840 - 1877
HPI: 75.07
Rank: 11
1840 - 1897
HPI: 74.71
Rank: 12
1840 - 1893
HPI: 88.38
Rank: 1
1850 - 1893
HPI: 83.67
Rank: 2
1818 - 1893
HPI: 78.60
Rank: 3
1825 - 1893
HPI: 78.13
Rank: 4
1808 - 1893
HPI: 75.95
Rank: 5
1828 - 1893
HPI: 75.84
Rank: 6
1822 - 1893
HPI: 74.50
Rank: 7
1835 - 1893
HPI: 73.27
Rank: 8
1857 - 1893
HPI: 72.63
Rank: 9
1838 - 1893
HPI: 71.67
Rank: 10
1820 - 1893
HPI: 70.56
Rank: 11
1810 - 1893
HPI: 69.81
Rank: 12
Among people born in Russia, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ranks 7 out of 2,688. Before him are Immanuel Kant (1724), Vladimir Lenin (1870), Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821), Leo Tolstoy (1828), Mikhail Gorbachev (1931), and Yuri Gagarin (1934). After him are Dmitri Mendeleev (1834), Anton Chekhov (1860), Peter the Great (1672), Alexander Pushkin (1799), Vladimir Putin (1952), and Nicholas II of Russia (1868).
1724 - 1804
HPI: 93.13
Rank: 1
1870 - 1924
HPI: 92.52
Rank: 2
1821 - 1881
HPI: 91.42
Rank: 3
1828 - 1910
HPI: 90.13
Rank: 4
1931 - Present
HPI: 89.08
Rank: 5
1934 - 1968
HPI: 88.58
Rank: 6
1840 - 1893
HPI: 88.38
Rank: 7
1834 - 1907
HPI: 88.11
Rank: 8
1860 - 1904
HPI: 88.01
Rank: 9
1672 - 1725
HPI: 87.89
Rank: 10
1799 - 1837
HPI: 87.86
Rank: 11
1952 - Present
HPI: 87.64
Rank: 12
1868 - 1918
HPI: 87.21
Rank: 13
Among composers born in Russia, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ranks 1. After him are Igor Stravinsky (1882), Dmitri Shostakovich (1906), Modest Mussorgsky (1839), Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873), Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844), Alexander Borodin (1833), Alexander Scriabin (1871), Mikhail Glinka (1804), Mily Balakirev (1837), Dmitry Kabalevsky (1904), and Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov (1883).
1840 - 1893
HPI: 88.38
Rank: 1
1882 - 1971
HPI: 85.30
Rank: 2
1906 - 1975
HPI: 82.97
Rank: 3
1839 - 1881
HPI: 82.66
Rank: 4
1873 - 1943
HPI: 82.60
Rank: 5
1844 - 1908
HPI: 82.35
Rank: 6
1833 - 1887
HPI: 80.00
Rank: 7
1871 - 1915
HPI: 78.42
Rank: 8
1804 - 1857
HPI: 78.06
Rank: 9
1837 - 1910
HPI: 76.64
Rank: 10
1904 - 1986
HPI: 72.53
Rank: 11
1883 - 1946
HPI: 72.51
Rank: 12