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Georg Böhm

1661 - 1733

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Georg Böhm (2 September 1661 – 18 May 1733) was a German Baroque organist and composer. He is notable for his development of the chorale partita and for his influence on the young J. S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Georg Böhm has received more than 97,823 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Georg Böhm is the 294th most popular composer (up from 302nd in 2019), the 1,187th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,188th in 2019) and the 46th most popular German Composer.

Georg Böhm is most famous for being a composer of operas.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Georg Böhm ranks 294 out of 1,451. Before him are Hugo Alfvén, Friedrich Kuhlau, Keith Emerson, Alberto Ginastera, Jaufre Rudel, and Miklós Rózsa. After him are Eugen d'Albert, François-Adrien Boieldieu, Eduard Hanslick, Joseph Lanner, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, and Josef Mysliveček.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1661, Georg Böhm ranks 7. Before him are Charles II of Spain, Louis, Grand Dauphin, Sukjong of Joseon, Feodor III of Russia, Guillaume de l'Hôpital, and Marie Angélique de Scorailles. After him are Antonio I, Prince of Monaco, Charles III Philip, Elector Palatine, Jahandar Shah, Christopher Polhem, Princess Dorothea Charlotte of Brandenburg-Ansbach, and Louis Armand I, Prince of Conti. Among people deceased in 1733, Georg Böhm ranks 5. Before him are Augustus II the Strong, François Couperin, Bernard Mandeville, and Pieter van der Aa. After him are Tsarevna Catherine Ivanovna of Russia, Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri, Robert de Visée, Nicolas Coustou, Princess Sibylle of Saxe-Lauenburg, Eberhard Louis, Duke of Württemberg, and Johann Jakob Scheuchzer.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Georg Böhm ranks 1,187 out of 7,253. Before him are Paul Natorp (1854), Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1785), August Landmesser (1910), Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge (1833), Marianne Bachmeier (1950), and Vasily Radlov (1837). After him are Oskar Lafontaine (1943), Amalia of Oldenburg (1818), Erich Heckel (1883), Alfred von Waldersee (1832), Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Germany (1227), and Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach (1907).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Georg Böhm ranks 46. Before him are Engelbert Humperdinck (1854), Carl Reinecke (1824), Carl Stamitz (1745), Johann Jakob Froberger (1616), Johann van Beethoven (1740), and Friedrich Kuhlau (1786). After him are Klaus Schulze (1947), Christian Gottlob Neefe (1748), Johann Schein (1586), Hans Leo Hassler (1564), Johann Kuhnau (1660), and Karl Richter (1926).

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