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Johann Adolf Scheibe

1708 - 1776

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Johann Adolph Scheibe (5 May 1708 – 22 April 1776) was a German-Danish composer and significant critic and theorist of music. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Adolf Scheibe has received more than 46,773 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Adolf Scheibe is the 957th most popular composer (up from 982nd in 2019), the 3,735th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,530th in 2019) and the 145th most popular German Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Johann Adolf Scheibe ranks 957 out of 1,451Before him are Italo Montemezzi, Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély, Guy Ropartz, Josip Runjanin, R. Murray Schafer, and Felix Draeseke. After him are Adolf Bernhard Marx, Juhan Aavik, Alexei Lvov, Joseph Marx, Nicola Vicentino, and Henri Sauguet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1708, Johann Adolf Scheibe ranks 11Before him are Duke Charles Louis Frederick of Mecklenburg, 7th Dalai Lama, William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, Antiochus Kantemir, Egidio Duni, and Olof von Dalin. After him are Georg Dionysius Ehret, Friedrich von Hagedorn, Paul Egede, and Safdar Jang. Among people deceased in 1776, Johann Adolf Scheibe ranks 10Before him are Natalia Alexeievna, Louis François, Prince of Conti, Sabah I bin Jaber, Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller, Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse, and Duchess Maria Anna Josepha of Bavaria. After him are John Ellis, Giuseppe Asclepi, Johann Jakob Breitinger, Nathan Hale, and James Ferguson.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Adolf Scheibe ranks 3,735 out of 7,253Before him are Robert Jungk (1913), Karl Arnold (1901), Peter Brötzmann (1941), Adolf Martens (1850), Theodore Levitt (1925), and Felix Draeseke (1835). After him are Holger Meins (1941), Leonhard Graf von Blumenthal (1810), Christine Kirch (1697), Theo Adam (1926), Joseph Helffrich (1890), and Rosi Mittermaier (1950).

Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Johann Adolf Scheibe ranks 145Before him are Paul Dessau (1894), Hans von Koessler (1853), Johann Jacob Bach (1682), Johann Walter (1496), Heinrich Albert (1604), and Felix Draeseke (1835). After him are Adolf Bernhard Marx (1795), Friedrich Silcher (1789), Friedrich Gernsheim (1839), Johann Theile (1646), Gottfried August Homilius (1714), and Emil von Sauer (1862).