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Vítězslav Novák

1870 - 1949

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Vítězslav Augustín Rudolf Novák (5 December 1870 – 18 July 1949) was a Czech composer and academic teacher at the Prague Conservatory. Stylistically, he was part of the neo-romantic tradition, and his music is considered an important example of Czech modernism.: 155  He worked towards a strong Czech identity in culture after the country became independent in 1918. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vítězslav Novák has received more than 94,432 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. Vítězslav Novák is the 467th most popular composer (up from 483rd in 2019), the 218th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 221st in 2019) and the 19th most popular Czech Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Vítězslav Novák ranks 467 out of 1,451. Before him are Mélanie Bonis, Gaspar Sanz, Giovanni Pacini, Antonio Maria Abbatini, Alexander Dargomyzhsky, and Jean Absil. After him are Antoine Busnois, Théodore Dubois, Johann Christoph Pepusch, Eugen Doga, Albert Lortzing, and Louis-Nicolas Clérambault.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Vítězslav Novák ranks 54. Before him are Archduchess Louise of Austria, Kitaro Nishida, Michael Rostovtzeff, Ignacio Zuloaga, Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel, and Archduchess Margarethe Klementine of Austria. After him are Alexandre Benois, Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann, Oscar Straus, Florent Schmitt, Vladimir Purishkevich, and Helge von Koch. Among people deceased in 1949, Vítězslav Novák ranks 50. Before him are André-Louis Debierne, Leonard Bloomfield, Maurice Blondel, Hanns Albin Rauter, Prince Harald of Denmark, and Hans Pfitzner. After him are Vasily Degtyaryov, Alice Bailey, Walter Buch, Mariano Fortuny, Wilhelm Adam, and Jacques Copeau.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Vítězslav Novák ranks 218 out of 1,200. Before him are Karl von Terzaghi (1883), Oldřich, Duke of Bohemia (970), Julius von Payer (1841), Maria of Austria, Duchess of Jülich-Cleves-Berg (1531), Hans-Adam I, Prince of Liechtenstein (1662), and Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830). After him are Zdeněk Zeman (1947), Vladimír Menšík (1929), Princess Michael of Kent (1945), Silvia Saint (1976), Joseph Škoda (1805), and Zdeněk Fibich (1850).

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Among COMPOSERS In Czechia

Among composers born in Czechia, Vítězslav Novák ranks 19. Before him are Franz Benda (1709), Julius Fučík (1872), Georg Benda (1722), Ignaz Moscheles (1794), Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760), and Johann Baptist Wanhal (1739). After him are Zdeněk Fibich (1850), Karel Svoboda (1938), Erwin Schulhoff (1894), Pavel Haas (1899), Leopold Koželuch (1747), and Franz Xaver Richter (1709).

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