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Anton Walter

1752 - 1826

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Gabriel Anton Walter (5 February 1752 – 11 April 1826) was a builder of pianos. The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians describes him as "the most famous Viennese piano maker of his time". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anton Walter has received more than 53,210 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Anton Walter is the 712th most popular composer (up from 747th in 2019), the 2,845th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,841st in 2019) and the 114th most popular German Composer.

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  • 53k

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  • 53.82

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.45

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Anton Walter ranks 712 out of 1,451. Before him are Aloysia Weber, Edison Denisov, Armando Trovajoli, Wolfgang Schmieder, Michel Corrette, and Vatroslav Lisinski. After him are Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini, Josef Tal, Amy Beach, Nicolas Gombert, Kenji Kawai, and František Brixi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1752, Anton Walter ranks 23. Before him are Princess Friederike of Hesse-Darmstadt, Andrey Razumovsky, Betsy Ross, Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre, Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli, and Torii Kiyonaga. After him are Alexander Tormasov, Amalie of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, Johann Friedrich Reichardt, Frances Burney, Maurice d'Elbée, and François Isaac de Rivaz. Among people deceased in 1826, Anton Walter ranks 36. Before him are Fyodor Rostopchin, Clarke Abel, Johann Peter Hebel, Georg Franz Hoffmann, Claire Lacombe, and Pavel Pestel. After him are Christian Kramp, Jens Baggesen, J. F. Oberlin, Kondraty Ryleyev, Alexander Gordon Laing, and Johann Heinrich Voss.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Anton Walter ranks 2,845 out of 7,253. Before him are Ernest, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (1482), Countess Palatine Hedwig Elisabeth of Neuburg (1673), Magdalene Sibylle of Saxony (1617), Joseph Clemens of Bavaria (1671), Friedrich August Stüler (1800), and Carl Hilpert (1888). After him are Carl Tanzler (1877), Adolph Kolping (1813), Gustav-Adolf von Zangen (1892), Anne Buydens (1919), Anton Flettner (1885), and Günter Wand (1912).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Anton Walter ranks 114. Before him are Andreas Werckmeister (1645), Johann Andreas Stein (1728), Conradin Kreutzer (1780), Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow (1663), Franz Lachner (1803), and Aloysia Weber (1760). After him are Johann Krieger (1651), Matthias Weckmann (1619), Paul Ben-Haim (1897), Johann Gottlieb Naumann (1741), Christian Cannabich (1731), and Johann Baptist Cramer (1771).

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