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Jan Václav Voříšek

1791 - 1825

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Jan Václav Hugo Voříšek (Czech pronunciation: [jan ˈvaːtslaf ˈɦuɡo ˈvor̝iːʃɛk]; Johann Hugo Worzischek, 11 May 1791, in Vamberk, Bohemia – 19 November 1825, in Vienna, Austria) was a Czech composer, pianist, and organist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jan Václav Voříšek has received more than 110,762 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Jan Václav Voříšek is the 793rd most popular composer (up from 815th in 2019), the 378th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 365th in 2019) and the 38th most popular Czech Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Jan Václav Voříšek ranks 793 out of 1,451. Before him are Nicola Fago, Wim Mertens, Thomas Newman, Koichi Sugiyama, Carlos Chávez, and Johann Rosenmüller. After him are Lodovico Grossi da Viadana, Alexander Spendiaryan, Emil Paur, Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger, Koji Kondo, and Johann Caspar Kerll.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1791, Jan Václav Voříšek ranks 26. Before him are Friedrich Parrot, Anne Lister, Friedrich von Gärtner, Ferdinand Hérold, Sergey Aksakov, and Henryk Dembiński. After him are Ángel de Saavedra, 3rd Duke of Rivas, Louis Visconti, Theodor Körner, Václav Hanka, Johan Ludvig Heiberg, and Giuseppe Gioachino Belli. Among people deceased in 1825, Jan Václav Voříšek ranks 24. Before him are Karl Ludwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Vladimir Borovikovsky, Juan Martín Díez, Princess Louise of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Daniel D. Tompkins, and Utagawa Toyokuni. After him are Karl Mollweide, Pierre Gaveaux, Pierre Charles L'Enfant, Peter Winter, Maria Angela Ardinghelli, and Maha Bandula.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Jan Václav Voříšek ranks 378 out of 1,200. Before him are Joseph von Sonnenfels (1732), Karel Havlíček Borovský (1821), Ladislav Adamec (1926), Ferenc Wesselényi (1605), Georg Flegel (1566), and Vlastimil Hort (1944). After him are Heinrich Wilhelm Schott (1794), Alfred Neubauer (1891), Aleš Hrdlička (1869), Jan Zajíc (1950), Saul Friedländer (1932), and Theodor Gomperz (1832).

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Among COMPOSERS In Czechia

Among composers born in Czechia, Jan Václav Voříšek ranks 38. Before him are Antonio Rosetti (1746), František Brixi (1732), Paul Wranitzky (1756), Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer (1656), Franz Krommer (1759), and Oskar Nedbal (1874). After him are Adalbert Gyrowetz (1763), Simon Sechter (1788), Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský (1684), Vítězslava Kaprálová (1915), Antonín Vranický (1761), and Leo Fall (1873).

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