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Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber

1644 - 1704

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Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (bapt. 12 August 1644, Stráž pod Ralskem – 3 May 1704, Salzburg) was a Bohemian-Austrian composer and violinist. Biber worked in Graz and Kroměříž before he illegally left his employer, Prince-Bishop Karl Liechtenstein-Kastelkorn, and settled in Salzburg. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber has received more than 321,454 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia. Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber is the 107th most popular musician (down from 100th in 2019), the 63rd most popular biography from Czechia (down from 59th in 2019) and the most popular Czech Musician.

Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber was a Baroque composer and violinist. He is most famous for his unaccompanied violin sonatas.

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Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber ranks 107 out of 2,662Before him are Paul Mauriat, Nat King Cole, Mike Oldfield, Henryk Wieniawski, Buddy Holly, and Fernando Sor. After him are Nadia Boulanger, Lady Gaga, Don Shirley, Ravi Shankar, Andrés Segovia, and Bernard Haitink.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1644, Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber ranks 6Before him are Antonio Stradivari, Matsuo Bashō, Ole Rømer, Henrietta of England, and Louise de La Vallière. After him are Galdan Boshugtu Khan, Marie Jeanne Baptiste of Savoy-Nemours, Jakob Ammann, François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy, Louis-François de Boufflers, and Amcazade Köprülü Hüseyin Pasha. Among people deceased in 1704, Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber ranks 6Before him are John Locke, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia, Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, and Guillaume de l'Hôpital. After him are Georg Muffat, Princess Frederica Amalia of Denmark, Jean-Baptiste Denys, Selim I Giray, Charles Plumier, and Menno van Coehoorn.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber ranks 63 out of 973Before him are Lída Baarová (1914), Karl Hermann Frank (1898), Ludvík Svoboda (1895), Anton Raphael Mengs (1728), Victor Lustig (1890), and Franz Werfel (1890). After him are George of Poděbrady (1420), Peter Grünberg (1939), Karl Kraus (1874), Max Wertheimer (1880), Bonne of Luxembourg (1315), and František Kupka (1871).

Among MUSICIANS In Czechia

Among musicians born in Czechia, Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber ranks 1After him are Alfred Brendel (1931), David Popper (1843), Wojciech Żywny (1756), Alice Herz-Sommer (1903), Rudolf Serkin (1903), Jan Hammer (1948), Jan Kubelík (1880), Josef Suk (1929), Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst (1812), Ivan Mládek (1942), and Eduard Nápravník (1839).