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Heinrich Scheidemann

1596 - 1663

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Heinrich Scheidemann (ca. 1595 – 1663) was a German organist and composer. He was the best-known composer for the organ in north Germany in the early to mid-17th century, and was an important forerunner of Dieterich Buxtehude and J.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Heinrich Scheidemann has received more than 53,768 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Heinrich Scheidemann is the 769th most popular composer (down from 740th in 2019), the 3,062nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,808th in 2019) and the 123rd most popular German Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Heinrich Scheidemann ranks 769 out of 1,451. Before him are Heinrich Sutermeister, Francesco Manfredini, La Monte Young, Temistocle Solera, Ludwig Senfl, and Oskar Nedbal. After him are Egidio Duni, Tyagaraja, Joseph Weigl, Claudin de Sermisy, Gaetano Pugnani, and Felip Pedrell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1596, Heinrich Scheidemann ranks 22. Before him are Thomas Francis, Prince of Carignano, Andreas Cellarius, Jean Bolland, Leonaert Bramer, Ebba Brahe, and Thomas de Keyser. After him are Abraham van Diepenbeeck, John Casimir, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Bertuccio Valier, and Jacobus Golius. Among people deceased in 1663, Heinrich Scheidemann ranks 8. Before him are Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Christine of France, Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba, William VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, Princess Margaret Yolande of Savoy, and Edward, Count Palatine of Simmern. After him are Giancarlo de' Medici, and Philip, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Heinrich Scheidemann ranks 3,062 out of 7,253. Before him are Paul Levi (1883), Otto Nerz (1892), Charlotte Bühler (1893), Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (1884), Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg (1826), and Albert of Aix (1060). After him are Eberhard IV, Count of Württemberg (1388), John Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (1594), Ricarda Huch (1864), Magdalena Sibylla of Saxe-Weissenfels (1648), Gustav Fröhlich (1902), and Ottmar Mergenthaler (1854).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Heinrich Scheidemann ranks 123. Before him are Paul Ben-Haim (1897), Johann Gottlieb Naumann (1741), Christian Cannabich (1731), Johann Baptist Cramer (1771), Norbert Burgmüller (1810), and Johann Melchior Molter (1696). After him are Moritz Hauptmann (1792), Johann Rosenmüller (1619), Johann Caspar Kerll (1627), Julius Röntgen (1855), Cornelius Gurlitt (1820), and Nannette Streicher (1769).

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