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Friedrich Wieck

1785 - 1873

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Johann Gottlob Friedrich Wieck (18 August 1785 – 6 October 1873) was a noted German piano teacher, voice teacher, owner of a piano store, and author of essays and music reviews. He is remembered as the teacher of his daughter, Clara, a child prodigy who was undertaking international concert tours by age eleven and who later married her father's pupil Robert Schumann, in defiance of her father's extreme objections. As Clara Schumann, she became one of the most famous pianists of her time. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Friedrich Wieck has received more than 122,362 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Friedrich Wieck is the 561st most popular composer (down from 511th in 2019), the 2,214th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,963rd in 2019) and the 86th most popular German Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Friedrich Wieck ranks 561 out of 1,451. Before him are Henri Duparc, Stevan Mokranjac, Eleni Karaindrou, Riccardo Drigo, Helmut Walcha, and John Blow. After him are Philippe Herreweghe, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Pavel Haas, and Ferdinando Paer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1785, Friedrich Wieck ranks 22. Before him are Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Diponegoro, Carl Adolph Agardh, William Prout, Isabella Colbran, and Princess Maria Anna of Hesse-Homburg. After him are Prince Paul of Württemberg, Charles Xavier Thomas, Nicholas Aylward Vigors, Adam Wilhelm Moltke, Adam Sedgwick, and William Jackson Hooker. Among people deceased in 1873, Friedrich Wieck ranks 28. Before him are Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Princess Charlotte of Württemberg, Rifa'a al-Tahtawi, Viktor Hartmann, José Antonio Páez, and Jean Chacornac. After him are Wilhelm Marstrand, Charles II, Duke of Brunswick, Prince August, Duke of Dalarna, Adam Sedgwick, Ferdinand David, and Prince Adolf zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Friedrich Wieck ranks 2,214 out of 7,253. Before him are Fredrik Barth (1928), Karl Ludwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1762), Claude Dornier (1884), Heinz Hoffmann (1910), Walter Ruttmann (1887), and Elisabeth of Bavaria, Electress of Brandenburg (1383). After him are Jérôme Boateng (1988), Sigmund Rascher (1909), John George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (1627), Fritz Pfeffer (1889), Louis VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1630), and Princess Mathilde Caroline of Bavaria (1813).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Friedrich Wieck ranks 86. Before him are Fredrik Pacius (1809), Johann Christoph Bach (1671), Gershon Kingsley (1922), Hermann Abendroth (1883), Johann Crüger (1598), and Helmut Walcha (1907). After him are Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918), Hermann Levi (1839), Georg Joseph Vogler (1749), Julius Benedict (1804), Tielman Susato (1500), and Paul Lincke (1866).

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