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Johann Caspar Kerll

1627 - 1693

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Johann Caspar Kerll (9 April 1627 – 13 February 1693) was a German baroque composer and organist. He is also known as Kerl, Gherl, Giovanni Gasparo Cherll and Gaspard Kerle. Born in Adorf in the Electorate of Saxony as the son of an organist, Kerll showed outstanding musical abilities at an early age, and was taught by Giovanni Valentini, court Kapellmeister at Vienna. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Caspar Kerll has received more than 57,353 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Caspar Kerll is the 716th most popular composer, the 2,723rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,645th in 2019) and the 106th most popular German Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Johann Caspar Kerll ranks 716 out of 1,216. Before him are Michel Corrette, Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi, Juan Bautista Cabanilles, Joseph Szigeti, Carl Millöcker, and Jean-François Dandrieu. After him are Leo Fall, Aristides Quintilianus, Giovanni Artusi, Franz Anton Hoffmeister, Turlough O'Carolan, and Muslim Magomayev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1627, Johann Caspar Kerll ranks 16. Before him are Countess Louise Henriette of Nassau, Petro Doroshenko, Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi, Landgravine Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel, John George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, and John Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar. After him are Murad Giray, Princess Louise of Savoy, Georg Eberhard Rumphius, Anna Maria of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Jan de Bray. Among people deceased in 1693, Johann Caspar Kerll ranks 14. Before him are Odoardo Farnese, Hereditary Prince of Parma, Johann Weikhard von Valvasor, Elisabeth Hevelius, Maria van Oosterwijck, John George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, and Willem van de Velde the Elder. After him are John de Britto, Laurent Cassegrain, Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, and Jan Andrzej Morsztyn.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Caspar Kerll ranks 2,723 out of 6,142. Before him are Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach (1823), Adolf Hühnlein (1881), Agnes Hedwig of Anhalt (1573), William, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (1598), Rudolf Jakob Camerarius (1665), and Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1792). After him are Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg (1871), Karl, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1785), Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow (1789), Christine of Hesse (1543), Duke Charles Louis Frederick of Mecklenburg (1708), and Prince Christoph of Hesse (1901).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Johann Caspar Kerll ranks 106. Before him are Johann Melchior Molter (1696), Johann Crüger (1598), Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877), Christian Cannabich (1731), Franz Lachner (1803), and Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow (1663). After him are Franz Anton Hoffmeister (1754), Norbert Burgmüller (1810), Ferdinand David (1810), Johann Ludwig Krebs (1713), Heinrich Scheidemann (1596), and Helmut Walcha (1907).

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