COMPOSER

Reinhold Glière

1874 - 1956

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Reinhold Moritzevich Glière (11 January 1875 [O.S. 30 December 1874] – 23 June 1956), born Reinhold Ernest Glier, was a Russian and Soviet composer of German and Polish descent. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Reinhold Glière has received more than 318,446 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia. Reinhold Glière is the 166th most popular composer (up from 203rd in 2019), the 99th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 96th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Ukrainian Composer.

Reinhold Glière is most famous for his orchestral works. He was a Russian composer who wrote in a variety of genres including symphonies, operas, ballets, and piano concertos.

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  • 320k

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  • 69.76

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Reinhold Glière ranks 166 out of 1,451. Before him are Komitas, Siegfried Wagner, Giovanni Paisiello, Max Reger, Bohuslav Martinů, and Vittorio Monti. After him are Léonin, Pietro Locatelli, Baldassare Galuppi, Jan Dismas Zelenka, Henry Mancini, and Hugo Wolf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Reinhold Glière ranks 29. Before him are August Krogh, Karl Kraus, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Ernest Shackleton, Konstantin Päts, and Nicholas Roerich. After him are Antanas Smetona, Inessa Armand, Gustav Holst, Luigi Einaudi, Vsevolod Meyerhold, and Josef Suk. Among people deceased in 1956, Reinhold Glière ranks 20. Before him are A. A. Milne, Risto Ryti, Alfred Kinsey, Konstantin Päts, Alexander Rodchenko, and Bela Lugosi. After him are H. L. Mencken, Josef Hoffmann, Kenji Mizoguchi, Bolesław Bierut, Anastasio Somoza García, and Wilhelm Miklas.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Reinhold Glière ranks 99 out of 1,365. Before him are Ivan Franko (1856), Irène Némirovsky (1903), Trofim Lysenko (1898), Edward Rydz-Śmigły (1886), Marie Bashkirtseff (1858), and Andriy Shevchenko (1976). After him are Roman Shukhevych (1907), Sergei Bondarchuk (1920), John Demjanjuk (1920), Nestor the Chronicler (1056), Karol Szymanowski (1882), and Lev Shestov (1866).

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Among COMPOSERS In Ukraine

Among composers born in Ukraine, Reinhold Glière ranks 3. Before him are Sergei Prokofiev (1891), and Stefania Turkewich (1898). After him are Karol Szymanowski (1882), Dmitry Bortniansky (1751), Dimitri Tiomkin (1894), Valentyn Sylvestrov (1937), Wojciech Kilar (1932), Mykola Lysenko (1842), Igor Markevitch (1912), Boris Lyatoshinsky (1894), and Maxim Berezovsky (1745).

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