COMPOSER

Johann Baptist Wanhal

1739 - 1813

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Johann Baptist Wanhal (12 May 1739 – 20 August 1813) was a Czech classical music composer. He was born in Nechanice, Bohemia, and died in Vienna. His music was well respected by Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven and Schubert. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Baptist Wanhal has received more than 152,313 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Baptist Wanhal is the 396th most popular composer (down from 392nd in 2019), the 192nd most popular biography from Czechia (down from 181st in 2019) and the 18th most popular Czech Composer.

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  • 22

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Johann Baptist Wanhal ranks 396 out of 1,451. Before him are Francesco Gasparini, Bernardo Pasquini, Johann Georg Pisendel, Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska, Vittoria Aleotti, and Riz Ortolani. After him are Nicolaus Bruhns, Anatoly Lyadov, Ariel Ramírez, Jakov Gotovac, Carl Loewe, and Alfred Einstein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1739, Johann Baptist Wanhal ranks 9. Before him are Maria Josepha of Bavaria, Charles François Dumouriez, Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber, George Clinton, and Charles-François Lebrun. After him are Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Jean Chalgrin, François Claude Amour, marquis de Bouillé, Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart, Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, and Jean-François de La Harpe. Among people deceased in 1813, Johann Baptist Wanhal ranks 14. Before him are Sophia Magdalena of Denmark, Christoph Martin Wieland, Antoine-Augustin Parmentier, Tecumseh, Rose Bertin, and George Shaw. After him are Jean-Andoche Junot, Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia, Jean-Baptiste Bessières, Giambattista Bodoni, Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger, and Géraud Duroc.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Johann Baptist Wanhal ranks 192 out of 1,200. Before him are Margaret of Bohemia, Queen of Hungary (1335), Guido Adler (1855), Prince Felix of Schwarzenberg (1800), Antonín Puč (1907), Jindřich Matyáš Thurn (1567), and Petr Fiala (1964). After him are Prince Rupert of the Rhine (1619), Jerzy Buzek (1940), Jan Železný (1966), Boleslaus III, Duke of Bohemia (950), Wenceslaus Hollar (1607), and Sigfried Held (1942).

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Among COMPOSERS In Czechia

Among composers born in Czechia, Johann Baptist Wanhal ranks 18. Before him are Josef Mysliveček (1737), Franz Benda (1709), Julius Fučík (1872), Georg Benda (1722), Ignaz Moscheles (1794), and Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760). After him are Vítězslav Novák (1870), Zdeněk Fibich (1850), Karel Svoboda (1938), Erwin Schulhoff (1894), Pavel Haas (1899), and Leopold Koželuch (1747).

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