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Andreas Werckmeister

1645 - 1706

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Andreas Werckmeister (November 30, 1645 – October 26, 1706) was a German organist, music theorist, and composer of the Baroque era. He was responsible for a temperament that resulted in all tonalities sounding acceptable on the keyboard. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Andreas Werckmeister has received more than 75,745 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Andreas Werckmeister is the 689th most popular composer (down from 612th in 2019), the 2,753rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,354th in 2019) and the 108th most popular German Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Andreas Werckmeister ranks 689 out of 1,451. Before him are Giovanni Battista Vitali, Eduard Tubin, Krzysztof Komeda, Marc'Antonio Ingegneri, Alexander Tcherepnin, and Hucbald. After him are Xavier Cugat, Johann Andreas Stein, Conradin Kreutzer, Johan Agrell, Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, and Antoine Brumel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1645, Andreas Werckmeister ranks 9. Before him are Johann Ambrosius Bach, Jean de La Bruyère, William Penn, Marguerite Louise d'Orléans, Aert de Gelder, and Francis I Rákóczi. After him are Anne Dacier, Eusebio Kino, Louis Jolliet, Nicolas Lemery, François de Troy, and Maria de Dominici. Among people deceased in 1706, Andreas Werckmeister ranks 7. Before him are Johann Pachelbel, Pierre Bayle, Peter II of Portugal, 6th Dalai Lama, Kimpa Vita, and Arsenije III Čarnojević. After him are Rahman Baba, Georg Joseph Kamel, Bernhard I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Ferdinand de Marsin, Godfried Schalcken, and John Evelyn.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Andreas Werckmeister ranks 2,753 out of 7,253. Before him are Tilly Fleischer (1911), Carl Brockelmann (1868), Louis V, Elector Palatine (1478), Adolf, Count Palatine of the Rhine (1300), Stefan Bellof (1957), and Princess Marie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (1850). After him are Poppo von Osterna (1200), Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia (1865), Max Skladanowsky (1863), Gertrud von Le Fort (1876), Georg Herwegh (1817), and Paul Freiherr von Eltz-Rübenach (1875).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Andreas Werckmeister ranks 108. Before him are Karl Amadeus Hartmann (1905), Herms Niel (1888), Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877), Johann Friedrich Agricola (1720), Ferdinand David (1810), and Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg (1718). After him are Johann Andreas Stein (1728), Conradin Kreutzer (1780), Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow (1663), Franz Lachner (1803), Aloysia Weber (1760), and Anton Walter (1752).

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