CONDUCTOR

Vasily Agapkin

1884 - 1964

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Vasily Ivanovich Agapkin (Russian: Васи́лий Ива́нович Ага́пкин; 3 February 1884 – 29 October 1964) was a Russian and Soviet military orchestra conductor, composer, and author of the well-known march "Farewell of Slavianka" (composed in 1912). Agapkin was born in Ryazan Governorate in 1884. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vasily Agapkin has received more than 63,624 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Vasily Agapkin is the 95th most popular conductor (down from 63rd in 2019), the 1,640th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,138th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Russian Conductor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 64k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.06

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.42

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Vasily Agapkins by language

Over the past year Vasily Agapkin has had the most page views in the with 39,976 views, followed by English (7,169), and Chinese (1,429). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Romanian (218.97%), Egyptian Arabic (73.86%), and Ukrainian (39.69%)

Among CONDUCTORS

Among conductors, Vasily Agapkin ranks 95 out of 128. Before him are Niyazi, Jascha Horenstein, Antonio Pappano, Paul Paray, Fabio Luisi, and Jukka-Pekka Saraste. After him are Willem Kes, Henry Wood, Grzegorz Fitelberg, Valery Khalilov, Gustavo Dudamel, and Tomás Bretón.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Vasily Agapkin ranks 165. Before him are Jean-Richard Bloch, Burrill Bernard Crohn, Arthur Ransome, Adeodato Giovanni Piazza, Bohumil Kubišta, and Claes Johanson. After him are Dewi Sartika, Sig Ruman, Carl Holmberg, Michel de Klerk, Molla Mallory, and John Hutchinson. Among people deceased in 1964, Vasily Agapkin ranks 137. Before him are Henri Grégoire, Clive Bell, Lauge Koch, Eddie Cantor, Hans Moser, and Hermann Barrelet. After him are Adolf Šimperský, Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt, Reg Parnell, Felisberto Hernández, Erik Malmberg, and Theodore Freeman.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vasily Agapkin ranks 1,640 out of 3,761. Before him are Mikhail Zharov (1899), Yuri Ozerov (1921), Pyotr Chikhachyov (1808), Alexander Esenin-Volpin (1924), Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak (1852), and Natalya Andreychenko (1956). After him are Vladimir Mashkov (1963), Igor Larionov (1960), Princess Xenia Georgievna of Russia (1903), Vasily Stasov (1769), Vladislav Listyev (1956), and Sergey Chaplygin (1869).

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Among CONDUCTORS In Russia

Among conductors born in Russia, Vasily Agapkin ranks 7. Before him are Yuri Temirkanov (1938), Serge Koussevitzky (1874), Semyon Bychkov (1952), Leo Borchard (1899), Yevgeny Svetlanov (1928), and Armas Järnefelt (1869). After him are Georg Schnéevoigt (1872), Kirill Petrenko (1972), Nikolai Golovanov (1891), Albert Coates (1882), and Tugan Sokhiev (1977).

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