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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 103,872 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Jan Václav Voříšek is the 816th most popular composer (up from 926th in 2019), the 365th most popular biography from Czechia and the 44th most popular Czech Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Jan Václav Voříšek ranks 816 out of 1,216Before him are Nicolas Isouard, Cesare Pugni, Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély, Aimeric de Peguilhan, Nicola Fago, and Charles Villiers Stanford. After him are Heino Eller, Andrzej Panufnik, Frank Bridge, Johann Jacob Bach, Claude Le Jeune, and Henri Tomasi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1791, Jan Václav Voříšek ranks 25Before him are Alexandros Mavrokordatos, Ferdinand Hérold, Anne Lister, Sergey Aksakov, Louis Visconti, and Henryk Dembiński. After him are Theodor Körner, Friedrich von Gärtner, Ángel de Saavedra, 3rd Duke of Rivas, Jan Svatopluk Presl, Giuseppe Gioachino Belli, and Johan Ludvig Heiberg. Among people deceased in 1825, Jan Václav Voříšek ranks 22Before him are Vladimir Borovikovsky, Eli Whitney, Karl Mollweide, Princess Louise of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Pierre Charles L'Enfant, and Daniel D. Tompkins. After him are Peter Winter, Johann Friedrich Pfaff, Utagawa Toyokuni, Maria Angela Ardinghelli, Karl Ludwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, and Frederick IV, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Jan Václav Voříšek ranks 365 out of 973Before him are Luděk Pachman (1924), Bohuslav Balbín (1621), Josef Beran (1888), Josef Škvorecký (1924), Saul Friedländer (1932), and Theodor von Oppolzer (1841). After him are Karel Poborský (1972), Josef Jungmann (1773), Jan Santini Aichel (1677), Tomáš Halík (1948), Viktor Dyk (1877), and Anton Stamitz (1750).

Among COMPOSERS In Czechia

Among composers born in Czechia, Jan Václav Voříšek ranks 44Before him are František Brixi (1732), Leo Fall (1873), Franz Krommer (1759), Václav Tomášek (1774), Jan Kalivoda (1801), and Simon Sechter (1788). After him are Anton Stamitz (1750), Antonín Vranický (1761), Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský (1684), Ralph Benatzky (1884), Vítězslava Kaprálová (1915), and Johann Joseph Abert (1832).