COMPOSER

Stevan Mokranjac

1856 - 1914

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Stevan Stojanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Стеван Стојановић, Serbian pronunciation: [stêʋaːn stojǎːnoʋitɕ]; 9 January 1856 – 28 September 1914), known as Stevan Mokranjac (Serbian Cyrillic: Стеван Мокрањац, pronounced [stêʋaːn mokrǎːɲats]) was a Serbian composer and music educator. Born in Negotin in 1856, Mokranjac studied music in Belgrade, Munich, Rome and Leipzig while in his twenties. Later, he became the conductor of the Belgrade Choir Society and founder of the Serbian School of Music and the first Serbian string quartet, in which he played the cello. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stevan Mokranjac has received more than 99,416 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Stevan Mokranjac is the 556th most popular composer (up from 593rd in 2019), the 124th most popular biography from Serbia (down from 121st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Serbian Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Stevan Mokranjac ranks 556 out of 1,451Before him are Stephen Sondheim, Johann Crüger, William Walton, Bálint Bakfark, Pierre Henry, and Henri Duparc. After him are Eleni Karaindrou, Riccardo Drigo, Helmut Walcha, John Blow, Friedrich Wieck, and Philippe Herreweghe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1856, Stevan Mokranjac ranks 49Before him are Matthias Zurbriggen, Maurycy Gottlieb, Enrico Ferri, Christian Sinding, Sergei Winogradsky, and Ahad Ha'am. After him are Hermann von François, Ignacy Hryniewiecki, Georg von der Marwitz, Karl Krumbacher, J.-H. Rosny aîné, and Dimitar Blagoev. Among people deceased in 1914, Stevan Mokranjac ranks 45Before him are Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Julio Argentino Roca, Angelo Moriondo, Ivan Zajc, John Henry Poynting, and Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky. After him are Charles Martin Hall, Ödön Lechner, John Muir, Albert Günther, Giovanni Sgambati, and David Gill.

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In Serbia

Among people born in Serbia, Stevan Mokranjac ranks 124 out of 661Before him are Ilija Garašanin (1812), Jovan Divjak (1937), Maria of Serbia, Queen of Bosnia (1447), Tommy Lapid (1931), Stefan Branković (1417), and Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia (1928). After him are Borisav Jović (1928), Vladimir Petrović (1955), Dejan Stanković (1978), Milan Stojadinović (1888), Georgios Sinas (1783), and Todor Veselinović (1930).

Among COMPOSERS In Serbia

Among composers born in Serbia, Stevan Mokranjac ranks 2Before him are Paul Abraham (1892). After him are Stevan Hristić (1885), Sanja Ilić (1951), and Isidora Žebeljan (1967).