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Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi

1907 - 1979

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Vasily Pavlovich Solovyov-Sedoy (Василий Павлович Соловьёв-Седой; 25 April [O.S. 12 April] 1907 – 2 December 1979) was a Soviet classical composer and songwriter who was born and died in Leningrad. Originally named Solovyov, when he entered the Union of Soviet Composers he added the suffix "Sedoy", meaning grey-haired, to avoid confusion with another composer with the same surname. Solovyov-Sedoy composed the music for many songs such as "Moscow Nights" (Russian: Подмосковные вечера) and "Nightingales" (Russian: Соловьи). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi has received more than 52,648 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi is the 1,219th most popular composer (down from 1,138th in 2019), the 1,944th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,699th in 2019) and the 57th most popular Russian Composer.

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  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.53

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi ranks 1,219 out of 1,451. Before him are William Bolcom, Peter Schickele, Fred Frith, Sanja Ilić, Havergal Brian, and Alan Hovhaness. After him are Alphons Czibulka, Arthur Bliss, Andrei Eshpai, George Bruns, Alexandre Levy, and Nicholas Hooper.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi ranks 296. Before him are Alfredo Devincenzi, Maurice Cloche, Jean Van Houtte, Clifford Curzon, Willy Busch, and Hassler Whitney. After him are Vicente Enrique y Tarancón, Adalbert Püllöck, George W. Romney, Leonid Sedov, Manoelzinho, and Frank Séchehaye. Among people deceased in 1979, Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi ranks 208. Before him are Yervand Kochar, Paolo Barison, Ignatius Kutu Acheampong, Virgilio Piñera, Juan Arremón, and Van McCoy. After him are Erich Rademacher, Theodora Kroeber, Ermindo Onega, Yang Zhongjian, Alessandro Frigerio, and Bart McGhee.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi ranks 1,944 out of 3,761. Before him are Eugene Znosko-Borovsky (1884), Fazu Aliyeva (1932), Nikolai Golovanov (1891), Alexander Nesmeyanov (1899), Viktor Rashchupkin (1950), and Mikhail Krug (1962). After him are Igor Novikov (1929), Nikolai Pogodin (1900), Yuliya Borisova (1925), Alexander Shishkov (1754), Mark Midler (1931), and Alexander Voeikov (1842).

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Among COMPOSERS In Russia

Among composers born in Russia, Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi ranks 57. Before him are Nicolas Slonimsky (1894), Valeri Brainin (1948), Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov (1936), Andrey Petrov (1930), Mikhail Gnessin (1883), and Shlomo Mintz (1957). After him are Andrei Eshpai (1925), Gavriil Popov (1904), Sergei Slonimsky (1932), Dimitri Arakishvili (1873), Vladimir Martynov (1946), and Boris Tishchenko (1939).

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