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Jan Dismas Zelenka

1679 - 1745

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Jan Dismas Zelenka (16 October 1679 – 23 December 1745), baptised Jan Lukáš Zelenka was a Czech composer and musician of the Baroque period. His music is admired for its harmonic inventiveness and mastery of counterpoint. Zelenka was raised in Central Bohemia, educated in Prague and Vienna, and spent his professional life in Dresden. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jan Dismas Zelenka has received more than 253,113 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia. Jan Dismas Zelenka is the 170th most popular composer (up from 176th in 2019), the 77th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 75th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Czech Composer.

Jan Dismas Zelenka was a Czech composer and organist. He was most famous for his opera, "The Devil's Trill."

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  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.01

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Jan Dismas Zelenka ranks 170 out of 1,451. Before him are Bohuslav Martinů, Vittorio Monti, Reinhold Glière, Léonin, Pietro Locatelli, and Baldassare Galuppi. After him are Henry Mancini, Hugo Wolf, Amilcare Ponchielli, Jordi Savall, Dmitry Kabalevsky, and Gustav Holst.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1679, Jan Dismas Zelenka ranks 3. Before him are Christian Wolff, and Leopold, Duke of Lorraine. After him are Woodes Rogers, Antonio Farnese, Duke of Parma, Charles III William, Margrave of Baden-Durlach, Jean François de Troy, Princess Magdalena Augusta of Anhalt-Zerbst, Pietro Filippo Scarlatti, Pierre Fauchard, Firmin Abauzit, and Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen. Among people deceased in 1745, Jan Dismas Zelenka ranks 4. Before him are Jonathan Swift, Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor, and Robert Walpole. After him are Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt, Jean-Baptiste van Loo, Ibrahim Muteferrika, Tomaso Antonio Vitali, Antoine Forqueray, Nicola Fago, Christian Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, and Ernest Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Jan Dismas Zelenka ranks 77 out of 1,200. Before him are Bohuslav Martinů (1890), Max Wertheimer (1880), Karl Hermann Frank (1898), Karel Schwarzenberg (1937), Matthias Sindelar (1903), and František Kupka (1871). After him are Josef Hoffmann (1870), Bonne of Luxembourg (1315), Wenceslaus I of Bohemia (1205), Věra Čáslavská (1942), Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644), and Ottokar I of Bohemia (1155).

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Among COMPOSERS In Czechia

Among composers born in Czechia, Jan Dismas Zelenka ranks 6. Before him are Antonín Dvořák (1841), Gustav Mahler (1860), Bedřich Smetana (1824), Leoš Janáček (1854), and Bohuslav Martinů (1890). After him are Johann Stamitz (1717), Josef Suk (1874), Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897), Anton Reicha (1770), Eduard Hanslick (1825), and Josef Mysliveček (1737).

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