MUSICIAN

Vladimir Horowitz

1903 - 1989

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Vladimir Samoylovich Horowitz (October 1 [O.S. September 18] 1903 – November 5, 1989) was a Russian and American pianist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vladimir Horowitz has received more than 1,808,551 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Vladimir Horowitz is the 56th most popular musician (down from 47th in 2019), the 45th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 31st in 2019) and the most popular Ukrainian Musician.

Vladimir Horowitz is most famous for being a Russian-born American pianist and conductor. He is considered one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 69.06

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 53

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.72

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Vladimir Horowitz ranks 56 out of 3,175. Before him are Victor Borge, Pablo Casals, Bruce Springsteen, Jimmy Page, Amir Khusrow, and Roger Taylor. After him are Brian Jones, Benny Andersson, Baroness Mary Vetsera, Cliff Burton, Duke Ellington, and John Deacon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Vladimir Horowitz ranks 15. Before him are Mark Rothko, Habib Bourguiba, C. F. Powell, Fernandel, Yasujirō Ozu, and Marguerite Yourcenar. After him are Adolf Butenandt, Andrey Kolmogorov, Kane Tanaka, Jan Tinbergen, Anaïs Nin, and Mustafa Barzani. Among people deceased in 1989, Vladimir Horowitz ranks 20. Before him are Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Osamu Tezuka, Lee Van Cleef, János Kádár, Laurence Olivier, and Dolores Ibárruri. After him are Graham Chapman, Sándor Márai, Andrei Gromyko, Thomas Bernhard, Hu Yaobang, and Ferdinand Marcos.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Vladimir Horowitz ranks 45 out of 1,365. Before him are Volodymyr Zelensky (1978), Andrei Chikatilo (1936), Igor Sikorsky (1889), Levi Eshkol (1895), Yulia Tymoshenko (1960), and Nestor Makhno (1888). After him are Simon Wiesenthal (1908), George Gamow (1904), Anne of Kiev (1025), Symon Petliura (1879), Joseph Roth (1894), and Sholem Aleichem (1859).

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Among MUSICIANS In Ukraine

Among musicians born in Ukraine, Vladimir Horowitz ranks 1. After him are Sviatoslav Richter (1915), David Oistrakh (1908), Emil Gilels (1916), Isaac Stern (1920), Heinrich Neuhaus (1888), Leonid Kogan (1924), Alexander Siloti (1863), Nikolai Kapustin (1937), Gregor Piatigorsky (1903), Igor Oistrakh (1931), and Felix Blumenfeld (1863).

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