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Christian Cannabich

1731 - 1798

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Johann Christian Innocenz Bonaventura Cannabich (28 December 1731 (bapt.) – 20 January 1798), was a German violinist, composer, and Kapellmeister of the Classical era. A composer of some 200 works, he continued the legacy of Johann Stamitz and helped turn the Mannheim orchestra into what Charles Burney described as "the most complete and best disciplined in Europe.". The orchestra was particularly noted for the carefully graduated crescendos and diminuendos characteristic of the Mannheim school. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Christian Cannabich has received more than 69,809 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Christian Cannabich is the 692nd most popular composer (up from 701st in 2019), the 2,647th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,601st in 2019) and the 103rd most popular German Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Christian Cannabich ranks 692 out of 1,216. Before him are Oskar Nedbal, Alonso Mudarra, Nikolai Tcherepnin, Mieczysław Karłowicz, Aleksandra Pakhmutova, and Rued Langgaard. After him are Mélanie Bonis, Wim Mertens, Krzysztof Komeda, Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann, Antoine Forqueray, and František Brixi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1731, Christian Cannabich ranks 8. Before him are Maria Josepha of Saxony, Dauphine of France, Erasmus Darwin, Martha Washington, Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron, Marcello Bacciarelli, and Gaetano Pugnani. After him are William Aiton, Ove Høegh-Guldberg, Maria Fortunata d'Este, Louis Eugene, Duke of Württemberg, Princess Charlotte Sophie of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, and William Cowper. Among people deceased in 1798, Christian Cannabich ranks 17. Before him are Infanta María Amalia of Spain, Edward Waring, Tarrare, Gaetano Pugnani, Johann Reinhold Forster, and François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers. After him are Antoine de Chézy, Yuan Mei, Pedro Pablo Abarca de Bolea, 10th Count of Aranda, John Fitch, Wolfe Tone, and James Wilson.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Christian Cannabich ranks 2,647 out of 6,142. Before him are Johann Ernst III, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (1664), Ursula Kuczynski (1907), Loriot (1923), Mina Witkojc (1893), Karl Vogt (1817), and Wilhelm Leibl (1844). After him are John I, Duke of Saxony (1249), Theodore Eustace, Count Palatine of Sulzbach (1659), Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link (1767), Ivica Račan (1944), Hans Delbrück (1848), and Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller (1725).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Christian Cannabich ranks 103. Before him are Johann Baptist Cramer (1771), Hermann Levi (1839), Matthias Weckmann (1619), Johann Melchior Molter (1696), Johann Crüger (1598), and Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877). After him are Franz Lachner (1803), Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow (1663), Johann Caspar Kerll (1627), Franz Anton Hoffmeister (1754), Norbert Burgmüller (1810), and Ferdinand David (1810).

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