1873 - 1943
Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff (1 April [O.S. 20 March] 1873 – 28 March 1943) was a Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music. Early influences of Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, and other Russian composers gave way to a thoroughly personal idiom notable for its song-like melodicism, expressiveness, dense contrapuntal textures, and rich orchestral colours. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sergei Rachmaninoff has received more than 5,040,455 page views. His biography is available in 70 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 68 in 2019). Sergei Rachmaninoff is the 32nd most popular composer (up from 35th in 2019), the 30th most popular biography from Russia and the 4th most popular Russian Composer.
Sergei Rachmaninoff is most famous for his piano concertos, which are considered some of the best of all time.
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Among composers, Sergei Rachmaninoff ranks 32 out of 1,216. Before him are Ennio Morricone, Antonio Salieri, Dmitri Shostakovich, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Jacques Offenbach, and Johann Strauss II. After him are Maurice Ravel, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Richard Strauss, Sergei Prokofiev, Johann Strauss I, and Modest Mussorgsky.
1928 - 2020
HPI: 78.13
Rank: 26
1750 - 1825
HPI: 78.00
Rank: 27
1906 - 1975
HPI: 77.80
Rank: 28
1520 - 1594
HPI: 77.68
Rank: 29
1819 - 1880
HPI: 77.67
Rank: 30
1825 - 1899
HPI: 77.66
Rank: 31
1873 - 1943
HPI: 77.57
Rank: 32
1875 - 1937
HPI: 77.40
Rank: 33
1714 - 1787
HPI: 76.78
Rank: 34
1864 - 1949
HPI: 76.76
Rank: 35
1891 - 1953
HPI: 76.67
Rank: 36
1804 - 1849
HPI: 76.60
Rank: 37
1839 - 1881
HPI: 76.35
Rank: 38
Among people born in 1873, Sergei Rachmaninoff ranks 1. After him are Thérèse of Lisieux, Enrico Caruso, Colette, Konstantin von Neurath, Alexis Carrel, Jules Rimet, Johannes V. Jensen, Thomas Andrews, Luigi Lucheni, Henri Barbusse, and Alfred Jarry. Among people deceased in 1943, Sergei Rachmaninoff ranks 2. Before him is Nikola Tesla. After him are David Hilbert, Karl Landsteiner, Isoroku Yamamoto, Pieter Zeeman, Camille Claudel, Simone Weil, Boris III of Bulgaria, Henrik Pontoppidan, Theodor Eicke, and Yakov Dzhugashvili.
1873 - 1943
HPI: 77.57
Rank: 1
1873 - 1897
HPI: 75.87
Rank: 2
1873 - 1921
HPI: 73.86
Rank: 3
1873 - 1954
HPI: 72.28
Rank: 4
1873 - 1956
HPI: 71.08
Rank: 5
1873 - 1944
HPI: 69.50
Rank: 6
1873 - 1956
HPI: 69.21
Rank: 7
1873 - 1950
HPI: 68.83
Rank: 8
1873 - 1912
HPI: 67.83
Rank: 9
1873 - 1910
HPI: 67.29
Rank: 10
1873 - 1935
HPI: 66.21
Rank: 11
1873 - 1907
HPI: 65.76
Rank: 12
1856 - 1943
HPI: 90.69
Rank: 1
1873 - 1943
HPI: 77.57
Rank: 2
1862 - 1943
HPI: 75.21
Rank: 3
1868 - 1943
HPI: 73.99
Rank: 4
1884 - 1943
HPI: 73.54
Rank: 5
1865 - 1943
HPI: 73.31
Rank: 6
1864 - 1943
HPI: 71.39
Rank: 7
1909 - 1943
HPI: 71.23
Rank: 8
1894 - 1943
HPI: 71.03
Rank: 9
1857 - 1943
HPI: 70.82
Rank: 10
1892 - 1943
HPI: 69.17
Rank: 11
1907 - 1943
HPI: 68.81
Rank: 12
Among people born in Russia, Sergei Rachmaninoff ranks 30 out of 3,262. Before him are Ayn Rand (1905), Nicholas I of Russia (1796), Mikhail Bakunin (1814), Dmitri Shostakovich (1906), Alexander III of Russia (1845), and Yuri Andropov (1914). After him are Maxim Gorky (1868), Lev Yashin (1929), Paul I of Russia (1754), Georgy Zhukov (1896), Valentina Tereshkova (1937), and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918).
1905 - 1982
HPI: 78.45
Rank: 24
1796 - 1855
HPI: 78.23
Rank: 25
1814 - 1876
HPI: 77.80
Rank: 26
1906 - 1975
HPI: 77.80
Rank: 27
1845 - 1894
HPI: 77.71
Rank: 28
1914 - 1984
HPI: 77.66
Rank: 29
1873 - 1943
HPI: 77.57
Rank: 30
1868 - 1936
HPI: 77.55
Rank: 31
1929 - 1990
HPI: 77.53
Rank: 32
1754 - 1801
HPI: 77.53
Rank: 33
1896 - 1974
HPI: 77.08
Rank: 34
1937 - Present
HPI: 77.01
Rank: 35
1918 - 2008
HPI: 76.67
Rank: 36
Among composers born in Russia, Sergei Rachmaninoff ranks 4. Before him are Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840), Igor Stravinsky (1882), and Dmitri Shostakovich (1906). After him are Modest Mussorgsky (1839), Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844), Alexander Scriabin (1871), Alexander Borodin (1833), Mikhail Glinka (1804), Mily Balakirev (1837), Dmitry Kabalevsky (1904), and Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov (1883).
1840 - 1893
HPI: 83.33
Rank: 1
1882 - 1971
HPI: 80.13
Rank: 2
1906 - 1975
HPI: 77.80
Rank: 3
1873 - 1943
HPI: 77.57
Rank: 4
1839 - 1881
HPI: 76.35
Rank: 5
1844 - 1908
HPI: 75.40
Rank: 6
1871 - 1915
HPI: 72.39
Rank: 7
1833 - 1887
HPI: 71.84
Rank: 8
1804 - 1857
HPI: 68.52
Rank: 9
1837 - 1910
HPI: 68.29
Rank: 10
1904 - 1986
HPI: 64.63
Rank: 11
1883 - 1946
HPI: 64.18
Rank: 12