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Friedrich Silcher

1789 - 1860

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Philipp Friedrich Silcher (27 June 1789 in Schnait (today part of Weinstadt) – 26 August 1860 in Tübingen), was a German composer, mainly known for his lieder (songs), and an important Volkslied collector. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Friedrich Silcher has received more than 55,691 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Friedrich Silcher is the 963rd most popular composer (down from 882nd in 2019), the 3,489th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,159th in 2019) and the 144th most popular German Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Friedrich Silcher ranks 963 out of 1,216Before him are Walter Braunfels, Maximilian Steinberg, Nicola Vicentino, Patrick Doyle, Pietro Filippo Scarlatti, and Toshi Ichiyanagi. After him are Peter Benoit, Harry Gregson-Williams, Alexander Goldenweiser, Jāzeps Vītols, Ruperto Chapí, and Federico Moreno Torroba.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1789, Friedrich Silcher ranks 31Before him are Silvio Pellico, Auguste Couder, Bernhard Severin Ingemann, Gamzat-bek, Henry Pottinger, and Menachem Mendel Schneersohn. After him are Leona Vicario, Franz Xaver Gabelsberger, Richard Bright, Martín Javier Mina y Larrea, Thaddeus Bulgarin, and Carlos María de Alvear. Among people deceased in 1860, Friedrich Silcher ranks 39Before him are Élie, duc Decazes, James Braid, Honoré Charles Reille, Tokugawa Nariaki, Johan Ludvig Heiberg, and Martin Rathke. After him are Sergei Petrovich Trubetskoy, Anders Sandøe Ørsted, Eduard Friedrich Eversmann, Johann Georg Christian Lehmann, Andreas Metaxas, and Konstantin Aksakov.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Friedrich Silcher ranks 3,489 out of 6,142Before him are Klaus Fichtel (1944), Walter von Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt (1887), Dankmar Adler (1844), Hans-Jörg Butt (1974), Paul Warburg (1868), and Udo Voigt (1952). After him are Josef Pieper (1904), Friedrich Theodor Vischer (1807), Karl Friedrich von Gaertner (1772), Johann Friedrich Meckel (1781), Konrad Wolf (1925), and Ingo Schwichtenberg (1965).

Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Friedrich Silcher ranks 144Before him are Franz Tunder (1614), Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch (1736), Ramin Djawadi (1974), Gottfried August Homilius (1714), Nannette Streicher (1769), and Walter Braunfels (1882). After him are Johann Adolf Scheibe (1708), Friedrich Gernsheim (1839), Emil von Sauer (1862), Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse (1774), Wolfgang Rihm (1952), and Julius Reubke (1834).