COMPOSER

Witold Lutosławski

1913 - 1994

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Witold Roman Lutosławski (Polish: [ˈvitɔld lutɔˈswafski] ; 25 January 1913 – 7 February 1994) was a Polish composer and conductor. Among the major composers of 20th-century classical music, he is "generally regarded as the most significant Polish composer since Szymanowski, and possibly the greatest Polish composer since Chopin". His compositions—of which he was a notable conductor—include representatives of most traditional genres, aside from opera: symphonies, concertos, orchestral song cycles, other orchestral works, and chamber works. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Witold Lutosławski has received more than 513,217 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Witold Lutosławski is the 192nd most popular composer (down from 169th in 2019), the 164th most popular biography from Poland (down from 129th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Polish Composer.

Witold Lutosławski is most famous for his compositions, which are often considered to be the first Polish serial music.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Witold Lutosławski ranks 192 out of 1,451Before him are Louis Spohr, Scott Joplin, Eduard Strauss, Karol Szymanowski, Andrea Luchesi, and Francis Lai. After him are Anna Maria Mozart, Johann Stamitz, Umberto Giordano, François-Joseph Gossec, Philippe de Vitry, and Johann Joachim Quantz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Witold Lutosławski ranks 41Before him are Leônidas, Werner Mölders, Albert Ellis, Jimmy Hoffa, Artur Axmann, and René Clément. After him are Erich Priebke, Roger Wolcott Sperry, Jacobo Árbenz, Vinicius de Moraes, Muddy Waters, and Aimé Césaire. Among people deceased in 1994, Witold Lutosławski ranks 42Before him are Gian Maria Volonté, Marija Gimbutas, Juvénal Habyarimana, Pierre Boulle, Niels Kaj Jerne, and Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia. After him are Fernando Rey, Pujie, Roger Wolcott Sperry, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Raul Julia, and Jessica Tandy.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Witold Lutosławski ranks 164 out of 1,694Before him are Maxim Litvinov (1876), Christa Wolf (1929), William I of Württemberg (1781), Hermann Balck (1893), Georg Michaelis (1857), and Robert Lewandowski (1988). After him are Bolesław Bierut (1892), Daniel Libeskind (1946), Władysław Anders (1892), Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (1884), Jan Potocki (1761), and Andrzej Duda (1972).

Among COMPOSERS In Poland

Among composers born in Poland, Witold Lutosławski ranks 3Before him are Frédéric Chopin (1810), and Krzysztof Penderecki (1933). After him are Henryk Górecki (1933), Martin Agricola (1486), Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881), Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1687), Viktor Ullmann (1898), Grażyna Bacewicz (1909), Mieczysław Weinberg (1919), Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska (1834), and Maria Szymanowska (1789).