1915 - 1997
Sviatoslav Teofilovich Richter (March 20 [O.S. March 7] 1915 – August 1, 1997) was a Soviet and Russian classical pianist. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sviatoslav Richter has received more than 715,176 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia. Sviatoslav Richter is the 82nd most popular musician (down from 68th in 2019), the 52nd most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 42nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Ukrainian Musician.
Sviatoslav Richter is most famous for his interpretations of Beethoven's sonatas.
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Among musicians, Sviatoslav Richter ranks 82 out of 2,662. Before him are Iggy Pop, Mstislav Rostropovich, Goran Bregović, Paco de Lucía, Yehudi Menuhin, and Richard Clayderman. After him are John Coltrane, Lou Reed, Barry Gibb, Paul Simon, Thomas Bangalter, and Karl Thomas Mozart.
1947 - Present
HPI: 67.24
Rank: 76
1927 - 2007
HPI: 67.24
Rank: 77
1950 - Present
HPI: 67.11
Rank: 78
1947 - 2014
HPI: 67.04
Rank: 79
1916 - 1999
HPI: 66.98
Rank: 80
1953 - Present
HPI: 66.73
Rank: 81
1915 - 1997
HPI: 66.63
Rank: 82
1926 - 1967
HPI: 66.62
Rank: 83
1942 - 2013
HPI: 66.54
Rank: 84
1946 - Present
HPI: 66.52
Rank: 85
1941 - Present
HPI: 66.44
Rank: 86
1 - Present
HPI: 66.39
Rank: 87
1784 - 1858
HPI: 66.22
Rank: 88
Among people born in 1915, Sviatoslav Richter ranks 21. Before him are Jerome Bruner, Stanley Matthews, Yitzhak Shamir, Joachim Peiper, Paul Tibbets, and Aung San. After him are Saul Bellow, Fred Hoyle, Hu Yaobang, Les Paul, Curd Jürgens, and Charles H. Townes. Among people deceased in 1997, Sviatoslav Richter ranks 20. Before him are Israel Kamakawiwoʻole, Bohumil Hrabal, The Notorious B.I.G., Hans Eysenck, Isaiah Berlin, and William S. Burroughs. After him are Melvin Calvin, Robert Mitchum, Allen Ginsberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Bảo Đại, and Fred Zinnemann.
1915 - 2016
HPI: 68.13
Rank: 15
1915 - 2000
HPI: 67.83
Rank: 16
1915 - 2012
HPI: 67.31
Rank: 17
1915 - 1976
HPI: 67.29
Rank: 18
1915 - 2007
HPI: 67.09
Rank: 19
1915 - 1947
HPI: 66.65
Rank: 20
1915 - 1997
HPI: 66.63
Rank: 21
1915 - 2005
HPI: 66.32
Rank: 22
1915 - 2001
HPI: 66.22
Rank: 23
1915 - 1989
HPI: 66.15
Rank: 24
1915 - 2009
HPI: 64.24
Rank: 25
1915 - 1982
HPI: 64.23
Rank: 26
1915 - 2015
HPI: 63.66
Rank: 27
1959 - 1997
HPI: 67.74
Rank: 14
1914 - 1997
HPI: 67.47
Rank: 15
1972 - 1997
HPI: 67.33
Rank: 16
1916 - 1997
HPI: 67.30
Rank: 17
1909 - 1997
HPI: 67.29
Rank: 18
1914 - 1997
HPI: 66.72
Rank: 19
1915 - 1997
HPI: 66.63
Rank: 20
1911 - 1997
HPI: 66.42
Rank: 21
1917 - 1997
HPI: 66.38
Rank: 22
1926 - 1997
HPI: 66.33
Rank: 23
1923 - 1997
HPI: 66.17
Rank: 24
1913 - 1997
HPI: 66.01
Rank: 25
1907 - 1997
HPI: 65.39
Rank: 26
Among people born in Ukraine, Sviatoslav Richter ranks 52 out of 1,083. Before him are George Gamow (1904), Symon Petliura (1879), Ilya Ehrenburg (1891), Anne of Kiev (1025), Vasily Grossman (1905), and Lazar Kaganovich (1893). After him are Rodion Malinovsky (1898), Nikolai Berdyaev (1874), David Oistrakh (1908), Levi Eshkol (1895), Lesya Ukrainka (1871), and Andrey Vyshinsky (1883).
1904 - 1968
HPI: 67.38
Rank: 46
1879 - 1926
HPI: 67.15
Rank: 47
1891 - 1967
HPI: 67.14
Rank: 48
1025 - 1075
HPI: 67.14
Rank: 49
1905 - 1964
HPI: 67.06
Rank: 50
1893 - 1991
HPI: 66.85
Rank: 51
1915 - 1997
HPI: 66.63
Rank: 52
1898 - 1967
HPI: 66.47
Rank: 53
1874 - 1948
HPI: 66.28
Rank: 54
1908 - 1974
HPI: 66.17
Rank: 55
1895 - 1969
HPI: 66.14
Rank: 56
1871 - 1913
HPI: 66.00
Rank: 57
1883 - 1954
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 58
Among musicians born in Ukraine, Sviatoslav Richter ranks 2. Before him are Vladimir Horowitz (1903). After him are David Oistrakh (1908), Emil Gilels (1916), Isaac Stern (1920), Heinrich Neuhaus (1888), Leonid Kogan (1924), Igor Oistrakh (1931), Gregor Piatigorsky (1903), Nathan Milstein (1902), Nikolai Kapustin (1937), and Alexander Siloti (1863).
1903 - 1989
HPI: 69.74
Rank: 1
1915 - 1997
HPI: 66.63
Rank: 2
1908 - 1974
HPI: 66.17
Rank: 3
1916 - 1985
HPI: 61.96
Rank: 4
1920 - 2001
HPI: 60.18
Rank: 5
1888 - 1964
HPI: 59.55
Rank: 6
1924 - 1982
HPI: 59.21
Rank: 7
1931 - 2021
HPI: 58.65
Rank: 8
1903 - 1976
HPI: 57.41
Rank: 9
1902 - 1992
HPI: 57.15
Rank: 10
1937 - 2020
HPI: 56.73
Rank: 11
1863 - 1945
HPI: 56.13
Rank: 12