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MUSICIAN

Yakov Zak

1913 - 1976

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Yakov Izrailevich Zak ( (Russian: Яков Израилевич Зак), Jiakov Israilevič Sak; Odessa, 20 November [O.S. 7 November] 1913 – Moscow, 28 June 1976) was a Soviet and Russian pianist and pedagogue. People's Artist of the USSR (1966). Born in Odessa, Zak studied piano at the Odessa Conservatory with Maria Starkhova, took classes on special harmony with Mykola Vilinsky, and later studied with Heinrich Neuhaus in Moscow, graduating in 1935. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yakov Zak has received more than 45,531 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Yakov Zak is the 746th most popular musician, the 405th most popular biography from Ukraine and the 16th most popular Ukrainian Musician.

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Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Yakov Zak ranks 746 out of 2,662Before him are Charlie Haden, Marcus Miller, Danko Jones, Richie Havens, Gerry Rafferty, and Francisco Canaro. After him are Gábor Szabó, Brian Molko, Jorge Bolet, Noel Redding, Andrea Guarneri, and Sigiswald Kuijken.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Yakov Zak ranks 146Before him are Sebastiano Baggio, Pak Song-chol, František Čáp, Abraham Sutzkever, Maria Tănase, and Reinhard Hardegen. After him are Nicolas Grunitzky, Ad Reinhardt, Fritz Darges, Vicente Calderón, Anthony Quayle, and Johann Niemann. Among people deceased in 1976, Yakov Zak ranks 108Before him are Grégoire Kayibanda, Rudolph Minkowski, Paul Gallico, Werner March, Zdeněk Fierlinger, and Pyotr Koshevoy. After him are Rosalind Russell, Angelo Iachino, Nikolay Nosov, Juan d'Arienzo, Pinhas Lavon, and Jack Cassidy.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Yakov Zak ranks 405 out of 1,083Before him are Georgy Voronoy (1868), Yaakov Dori (1899), Roman Rudenko (1907), Dmitry Dmitrievich Maksutov (1896), Leonid Kanevsky (1939), and Malusha (null). After him are Grigori Kozintsev (1905), Mark Bernes (1911), Isaak Dunayevsky (1900), Nonna Mordyukova (1925), Nikolay Nosov (1908), and Yakov Malik (1906).

Among MUSICIANS In Ukraine

Among musicians born in Ukraine, Yakov Zak ranks 16Before him are Nathan Milstein (1902), Nikolai Kapustin (1937), Alexander Siloti (1863), Arkady Luxemburg (1939), Felix Blumenfeld (1863), and Karol Mikuli (1821). After him are Mischa Elman (1891), Emanuel Feuermann (1902), Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński (1807), Shura Cherkassky (1909), Mieczysław Horszowski (1892), and Volodymyr Ivasyuk (1949).