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Johann Andreas Stein

1728 - 1792

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Johann (Georg) Andreas Stein (16 May 1728 – 29 February 1792) was an outstanding German maker of keyboard instruments, a central figure in the history of the piano. He was primarily responsible for the design of the so-called German hammer action. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Andreas Stein has received more than 73,744 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Andreas Stein is the 691st most popular composer (up from 787th in 2019), the 2,765th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,944th in 2019) and the 109th most popular German Composer.

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  • 54.11

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  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.21

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Johann Andreas Stein ranks 691 out of 1,451. Before him are Krzysztof Komeda, Marc'Antonio Ingegneri, Alexander Tcherepnin, Hucbald, Andreas Werckmeister, and Xavier Cugat. After him are Conradin Kreutzer, Johan Agrell, Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, Antoine Brumel, Josef Bohuslav Foerster, and Nicolas-Charles Bochsa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1728, Johann Andreas Stein ranks 23. Before him are Shah Alam II, Kirill Razumovski, Matthew Boulton, Oliver Goldsmith, Samuel Wallis, and Carlo Allioni. After him are Hiraga Gennai, Franz Xaver von Wulfen, Ferdinando Galiani, Maria Angela Ardinghelli, José Moñino, 1st Count of Floridablanca, and Johann Gerhard König. Among people deceased in 1792, Johann Andreas Stein ranks 22. Before him are John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz, Legall de Kermeur, Denis Fonvizin, Antoine Louis, and George Mason. After him are Maximilian Hell, Antonio Rosetti, Guillaume Le Gentil, Yazid of Morocco, John Smeaton, and John Burgoyne.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Andreas Stein ranks 2,765 out of 7,253. Before him are Paul Freiherr von Eltz-Rübenach (1875), Max Pauly (1907), Princess Alexandra Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1887), Karl Koch (1809), Justinus Kerner (1786), and Carl Ludwig Siegel (1896). After him are Thomas Fincke (1561), Georg, Crown Prince of Saxony (1893), John, Count Palatine of Neumarkt (1383), Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (1962), Tom Tykwer (1965), and Alexander, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (1462).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Johann Andreas Stein ranks 109. Before him are Herms Niel (1888), Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877), Johann Friedrich Agricola (1720), Ferdinand David (1810), Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg (1718), and Andreas Werckmeister (1645). After him are Conradin Kreutzer (1780), Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow (1663), Franz Lachner (1803), Aloysia Weber (1760), Anton Walter (1752), and Johann Krieger (1651).

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