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Franz Xaver Süssmayr

1766 - 1803

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Franz Xaver Süssmayr ([fʁant͡s ˈksaː.vɐ ˈsyːs.maɪ̯ɐ]; also Süßmayr, or Suessmayr in English; 1766 – September 17, 1803) was an Austrian composer and conductor. Popular in his day, he is now known primarily as the composer who completed Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's unfinished Requiem. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Franz Xaver Süssmayr has received more than 241,075 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. Franz Xaver Süssmayr is the 229th most popular composer (down from 210th in 2019), the 229th most popular biography from Austria (down from 205th in 2019) and the 20th most popular Austrian Composer.

Franz Xaver Süssmayr is most famous for finishing Mozart's Requiem.

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  • 61.72

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.07

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Franz Xaver Süssmayr ranks 229 out of 1,216. Before him are Pietro Locatelli, Alfred Schnittke, Anton Reicha, Lili Boulanger, Riccardo Broschi, and Alexander von Zemlinsky. After him are Pierre Schaeffer, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Engelbert Humperdinck, Uzeyir Hajibeyov, Otto Nicolai, and Duchess Maria Antonia of Bavaria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1766, Franz Xaver Süssmayr ranks 7. Before him are John Dalton, Thomas Robert Malthus, Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Germaine de Staël, Emmanuel de Grouchy, marquis de Grouchy, and Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu. After him are Nikolay Karamzin, Maine de Biran, Dominique Jean Larrey, Rodolphe Kreutzer, Charlotte, Princess Royal, and William Hyde Wollaston. Among people deceased in 1803, Franz Xaver Süssmayr ranks 7. Before him are Johann Gottfried Herder, Toussaint Louverture, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Cardinal de Rohan, Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, and Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia. After him are Louis I of Etruria, Samuel Adams, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Vittorio Alfieri, Louis Claude de Saint-Martin, and Ercole III d'Este, Duke of Modena.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Franz Xaver Süssmayr ranks 229 out of 1,237. Before him are Max Reinhardt (1873), Catherine of Austria, Queen of Poland (1533), Joseph Ferdinand of Bavaria (1692), Otto Bauer (1881), Leopold V, Archduke of Austria (1586), and Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick (1887). After him are Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma (1893), Otto Rank (1884), Roland Ratzenberger (1960), Falco (1957), Klaus Ebner (1964), and Alexander Wienerberger (1891).

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Among COMPOSERS In Austria

Among composers born in Austria, Franz Xaver Süssmayr ranks 20. Before him are Émile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865), Anna Maria Mozart (1720), Eduard Strauss (1835), Michael Haydn (1737), Ludwig Minkus (1826), and Alexander von Zemlinsky (1871). After him are Franz Xaver Gruber (1787), Johann Georg Albrechtsberger (1736), Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739), Ludwig Ritter von Köchel (1800), Max Steiner (1888), and Joseph Lanner (1801).

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