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Franz Benda

1709 - 1786

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Franz Benda (Czech: František Benda; baptised 22 November 1709 – 7 March 1786) was a Bohemian violinist and composer, who worked for much of his life at the court of Frederick the Great. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Franz Benda has received more than 81,488 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Franz Benda is the 322nd most popular composer (down from 321st in 2019), the 142nd most popular biography from Czechia (down from 138th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Czech Composer.

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  • 81k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.33

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Franz Benda ranks 322 out of 1,216. Before him are John Dunstaple, Cécile Chaminade, Sigismond Thalberg, Angelo Badalamenti, Franco Alfano, and Jacobus Gallus. After him are Louis-Claude Daquin, Sergei Taneyev, Vincent d'Indy, François-Adrien Boieldieu, Antonio Lotti, and Pierre De Geyter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1709, Franz Benda ranks 9. Before him are Samuel Johnson, Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans, Jacques de Vaucanson, Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Georg Wilhelm Steller, and Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange. After him are Gabriel Bonnot de Mably, Andreas Sigismund Marggraf, Franz Xaver Richter, Johann Georg Gmelin, Tokugawa Ietsugu, and Alexei Razumovsky. Among people deceased in 1786, Franz Benda ranks 6. Before him are Frederick the Great, Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Moses Mendelssohn, Maurice Benyovszky, and Peter III of Portugal. After him are Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, Antonio Sacchini, Eva Ekeblad, Tokugawa Ieharu, John Goodricke, and Giovanni Battista Guadagnini.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Franz Benda ranks 142 out of 973. Before him are Rudolf Slánský (1901), Balthasar Neumann (1687), Karel Schwarzenberg (1937), Johann II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1840), Wenceslaus I, Duke of Luxembourg (1337), and Ottokar Czernin (1872). After him are Rafael Kubelík (1914), Jarmila Kratochvílová (1951), Emilie Schindler (1907), Bořivoj I, Duke of Bohemia (852), Karl I, Prince of Liechtenstein (1569), and Ignaz Moscheles (1794).

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Among COMPOSERS In Czechia

Among composers born in Czechia, Franz Benda ranks 14. Before him are Josef Suk (1874), Anton Reicha (1770), Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897), Josef Mysliveček (1737), Eduard Hanslick (1825), and Julius Fučík (1872). After him are Ignaz Moscheles (1794), Viktor Ullmann (1898), Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760), Georg Benda (1722), Zdeněk Fibich (1850), and Johann Baptist Wanhal (1739).

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