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Antonio Soler

1729 - 1783

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Antonio Francisco Javier José Soler Ramos, usually known as Padre ('Father', in the religious sense) Antonio Soler, known in Catalan as Antoni Soler i Ramos (baptized 3 December 1729 – died 20 December 1783) was a Spanish composer whose works span the late Baroque and early Classical music eras. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Antonio Soler has received more than 168,555 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Antonio Soler is the 337th most popular composer (down from 292nd in 2019), the 448th most popular biography from Spain (down from 369th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Spanish Composer.

Antonio Soler is most famous for his keyboard compositions. His music is considered to be in the baroque style.

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  • 170k

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  • 59.55

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  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.57

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.07

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Antonio Soler ranks 337 out of 1,451. Before him are Julius Fučík, Heinrich Isaac, Ferdinando Carulli, Michael Nyman, Cipriano de Rore, and Christian Gottlob Neefe. After him are Giovanni Bottesini, Georg Benda, Viktor Ullmann, Johann Schein, Pietro Della Valle, and Hans Leo Hassler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1729, Antonio Soler ranks 10. Before him are Edmund Burke, Moses Mendelssohn, Lazzaro Spallanzani, Louis Antoine de Bougainville, Juliana Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, and Maria Antonia Ferdinanda of Spain. After him are Johann Daniel Titius, Johann Reinhold Forster, Giuseppe Sarti, Gaétan Vestris, Countess Maria Louise Albertine of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg, and William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe. Among people deceased in 1783, Antonio Soler ranks 8. Before him are Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Étienne Bézout, Johann Adolph Hasse, Grigory Orlov, Carl Linnaeus the Younger, and Yosa Buson. After him are Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, Johann Kirnberger, Princess Caroline Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt, Benedict Joseph Labre, Nikita Ivanovich Panin, and Johann Jakob Bodmer.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Antonio Soler ranks 448 out of 3,355. Before him are Josep Samitier (1902), Juan, Count of Montizón (1822), Raymond Nonnatus (1204), José Antonio Camacho (1955), Ali ibn Yusuf (1083), and María de Padilla (1334). After him are Infanta Luisa Fernanda, Duchess of Montpensier (1832), Mary of Jesus de León y Delgado (1643), García Sánchez I of Pamplona (919), Pedro de Mendoza (1487), Víctor Erice (1940), and Peter I of Aragon and Pamplona (1068).

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Among COMPOSERS In Spain

Among composers born in Spain, Antonio Soler ranks 7. Before him are Manuel de Falla (1876), Joaquín Rodrigo (1901), Francisco Tárrega (1852), Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548), Enrique Granados (1867), and Jordi Savall (1941). After him are Joaquín Turina (1882), Federico Mompou (1893), Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga (1806), Gaspar Sanz (1640), Antonio de Cabezón (1510), and Sebastián Iradier (1809).

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