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Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst

1812 - 1865

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Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst (8 June 1812 – 8 October 1865) was a Moravian-Jewish violinist, violist and composer. He was seen as the outstanding violinist of his time and one of Niccolò Paganini's greatest successors. He contributed to polyphonic playing and discovered new ways to compose polyphonic violin music. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst has received more than 102,109 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst is the 697th most popular musician (down from 609th in 2019), the 344th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 297th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Czech Musician.

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Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst ranks 697 out of 3,175. Before him are Richard Galliano, Ricardo Viñes, Âşık Veysel, Lee Morgan, Rufus Wainwright, and Steve Lukather. After him are Louis Prima, Hide, Rick Davies, Jerry Garcia, Jeff Buckley, and Eric Dolphy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1812, Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst ranks 41. Before him are Filippo Pacini, Melchora Aquino, Augustus Pugin, Hermann von Fehling, Duke Peter of Oldenburg, and Samuel Smiles. After him are Robert Fortune, Ignacio Comonfort, Luigi Carlo Farini, Rudolf von Alt, Ercole Dembowski, and Charles Duclerc. Among people deceased in 1865, Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst ranks 43. Before him are Fredrika Bremer, Rafael Carrera, William Jackson Hooker, Friedrich August Stüler, Adolph Kolping, and Robert Remak. After him are Heinrich Wilhelm Schott, Evangelos Zappas, Robert Hermann Schomburgk, Princess Anna of Hesse and by Rhine, Alexander Dukhnovych, and Richard Cobden.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst ranks 344 out of 1,200. Before him are Paul Wranitzky (1756), Josef Škvorecký (1924), Vlastimil Brodský (1920), Michael Czerny (1946), Petr Chelčický (1390), and Wenceslaus II, Duke of Bohemia (1137). After him are František Čáp (1913), Julius Francis, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (1641), Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer (1656), Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer (1689), Svatopluk Pluskal (1930), and Zdeněk Burian (1905).

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Among MUSICIANS In Czechia

Among musicians born in Czechia, Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst ranks 10. Before him are Jan Kubelík (1880), Rudolf Serkin (1903), Jan Hammer (1948), Alice Herz-Sommer (1903), Wojciech Żywny (1756), and Josef Suk (1929). After him are Ivan Mládek (1942), Eduard Nápravník (1839), Miroslav Vitouš (1947), Franz Konwitschny (1901), Ignaz Brüll (1846), and Jakub Jan Ryba (1765).

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