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Carl Heinrich Graun

1704 - 1759

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Carl Heinrich Graun (7 May 1704 – 8 August 1759) was a German composer and tenor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Heinrich Graun has received more than 102,455 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Carl Heinrich Graun is the 377th most popular composer (up from 378th in 2019), the 1,535th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,484th in 2019) and the 56th most popular German Composer.

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  • 58.72

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.11

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Carl Heinrich Graun ranks 377 out of 1,451. Before him are Alfredo Catalani, Grażyna Bacewicz, Wolfgang Wagner, Joaquín Turina, Charles Koechlin, and Hans Richter. After him are Rodion Shchedrin, Jacques Arcadelt, Toru Takemitsu, Cole Porter, Georges Delerue, and Johann Joseph Fux.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1704, Carl Heinrich Graun ranks 5. Before him are Gabriel Cramer, Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Tahmasp II, and Anne Christine of Sulzbach, Princess of Piedmont. After him are Hans Hermann von Katte, John Kay, Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, Countess Caroline of Nassau-Saarbrücken, Margravine Johanna of Baden-Baden, Johann Andreas Segner, and Louis de Jaucourt. Among people deceased in 1759, Carl Heinrich Graun ranks 6. Before him are George Frideric Handel, Ferdinand VI of Spain, Louise Élisabeth of France, Pierre Louis Maupertuis, and Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange. After him are Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, Prince Karl Anton August of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay, Anton Wilhelm Amo, Alamgir II, and Louise Henriette de Bourbon.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Heinrich Graun ranks 1,535 out of 7,253. Before him are Karl Albrecht (1920), Jenny-Wanda Barkmann (1922), Karl August von Hardenberg (1750), Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach (1888), Golo Mann (1909), and Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia (1887). After him are Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge (1795), John Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg (1455), Christian Friedrich Hebbel (1813), Viktor Brack (1904), Karl Adolph von Basedow (1799), and Karl August Wittfogel (1896).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Carl Heinrich Graun ranks 56. Before him are Hans Leo Hassler (1564), Johann Kuhnau (1660), Karl Richter (1926), Hugo Riemann (1849), Samuel Scheidt (1587), and Wolfgang Wagner (1919). After him are Johann Georg Pisendel (1687), Nicolaus Bruhns (1665), Carl Loewe (1796), Alfred Einstein (1880), Ferdinand Ries (1784), and Princess Philippine Charlotte of Prussia (1716).

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