MUSICIAN

Władysław Szpilman

1911 - 2000

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Władysław Szpilman (Polish pronunciation: [vwaˈdɨswaf ˈʂpilman] ; 5 December 1911 – 6 July 2000) was a Polish Jewish pianist, classical composer and Holocaust survivor. Szpilman is widely known as the central figure in the Roman Polanski film The Pianist, which was based on his autobiographical account of how he survived the German occupation of Warsaw. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Władysław Szpilman has received more than 3,926,629 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Władysław Szpilman is the 17th most popular musician (up from 22nd in 2019), the 19th most popular biography from Poland (up from 23rd in 2019) and the most popular Polish Musician.

Władysław Szpilman is most famous for his memoir, "The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945." In the memoir, he tells the story of his life as a Polish Jew during the Nazi occupation of Warsaw.

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  • 77.69

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  • 48

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.95

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.71

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Władysław Szpilman ranks 17 out of 3,175. Before him are Elton John, Jimi Hendrix, Madonna, George Harrison, Leonard Cohen, and Jeff Beck. After him are Arcangelo Corelli, Ray Charles, Ringo Starr, Bon Scott, Mark Knopfler, and Jean-Michel Jarre.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Władysław Szpilman ranks 7. Before him are Ronald Reagan, Josef Mengele, Konstantin Chernenko, Georges Pompidou, Baba Vanga, and Naguib Mahfouz. After him are Emil Cioran, Juan Manuel Fangio, Võ Nguyên Giáp, Todor Zhivkov, William Golding, and Nino Rota. Among people deceased in 2000, Władysław Szpilman ranks 1. After him are Hedy Lamarr, Ingrid of Sweden, Hafez al-Assad, Roger Vadim, Habib Bourguiba, Emil Zátopek, Victor Borge, Alec Guinness, Stanley Matthews, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, and Vittorio Gassman.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Władysław Szpilman ranks 19 out of 1,694. Before him are Günter Grass (1927), Adam Mickiewicz (1798), Fritz Haber (1868), Johann Gottfried Herder (1744), Marie Leszczyńska (1703), and Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686). After him are Wernher von Braun (1912), Erich Ludendorff (1865), Wisława Szymborska (1923), Janusz Korczak (1878), Lech Kaczyński (1949), and Fedor von Bock (1880).

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Among MUSICIANS In Poland

Among musicians born in Poland, Władysław Szpilman ranks 1. After him are Arthur Rubinstein (1887), Henryk Wieniawski (1835), Wanda Landowska (1879), Henryk Szeryng (1918), Artur Schnabel (1882), Krystian Zimerman (1956), Theodor Leschetizky (1830), Josef Hofmann (1876), Christoph Eschenbach (1940), Bronisław Huberman (1882), and Julian Fontana (1810).

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