COMPOSER

Felix Draeseke

1835 - 1913

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Felix August Bernhard Draeseke (7 October 1835 – 26 February 1913) was a composer of the "New German School" admiring Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Felix Draeseke has received more than 59,947 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Felix Draeseke is the 956th most popular composer (down from 876th in 2019), the 3,734th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,237th in 2019) and the 144th most popular German Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Felix Draeseke ranks 956 out of 1,451Before him are Chiquinha Gonzaga, Italo Montemezzi, Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély, Guy Ropartz, Josip Runjanin, and R. Murray Schafer. After him are Johann Adolf Scheibe, Adolf Bernhard Marx, Juhan Aavik, Alexei Lvov, Joseph Marx, and Nicola Vicentino.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, Felix Draeseke ranks 54Before him are Henri Brisson, Auguste Kerckhoffs, Krišjānis Barons, Daniel Giraud Elliot, Adlai Stevenson I, and Duchess Agnes of Württemberg. After him are Benjamin Briggs, Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke, Rain-in-the-Face, Manuel Quintana, Bertalan Székely, and Désirée Artôt. Among people deceased in 1913, Felix Draeseke ranks 61Before him are Heinrich Martin Weber, Étienne Laspeyres, Léon Teisserenc de Bort, Edwin Klebs, Marie Popelin, and Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino. After him are Johannes Linnankoski, Angelo de Gubernatis, Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup, Konstantinos Tsiklitiras, Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo, and Segismundo Moret.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Felix Draeseke ranks 3,734 out of 7,253Before him are Georg, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen (1892), Robert Jungk (1913), Karl Arnold (1901), Peter Brötzmann (1941), Adolf Martens (1850), and Theodore Levitt (1925). After him are Johann Adolf Scheibe (1708), Holger Meins (1941), Leonhard Graf von Blumenthal (1810), Christine Kirch (1697), Theo Adam (1926), and Joseph Helffrich (1890).

Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Felix Draeseke ranks 144Before him are Franz Tunder (1614), Paul Dessau (1894), Hans von Koessler (1853), Johann Jacob Bach (1682), Johann Walter (1496), and Heinrich Albert (1604). After him are Johann Adolf Scheibe (1708), Adolf Bernhard Marx (1795), Friedrich Silcher (1789), Friedrich Gernsheim (1839), Johann Theile (1646), and Gottfried August Homilius (1714).