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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 62,378 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Caspar Kerll is the 799th most popular composer (down from 715th in 2019), the 3,163rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,720th in 2019) and the 126th most popular German Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Johann Caspar Kerll ranks 799 out of 1,451. Before him are Jan Václav Voříšek, Lodovico Grossi da Viadana, Alexander Spendiaryan, Emil Paur, Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger, and Koji Kondo. After him are Julius Röntgen, Aimeric de Peguilhan, Isaak Dunayevsky, Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, Jean Guillou, and Cornelius Gurlitt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1627, Johann Caspar Kerll ranks 18. Before him are Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi, Landgravine Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel, John George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Murad Giray, John Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, and Georg Eberhard Rumphius. After him are Jan de Bray, Rudolph Augustus, Duke of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, and Anna Maria of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Among people deceased in 1693, Johann Caspar Kerll ranks 15. Before him are Johann Weikhard von Valvasor, John George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Elisabeth Hevelius, John de Britto, Laurent Cassegrain, and Maria van Oosterwijck. After him are Willem van de Velde the Elder, Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, Flavio Chigi, Claudio Coello, and Jan Andrzej Morsztyn.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Caspar Kerll ranks 3,163 out of 7,253. Before him are Arthur Oncken Lovejoy (1873), Philipp von Boeselager (1917), Hans Erich Nossack (1901), Friedrich Kirchner (1885), Johann Samuel König (1712), and Guido Westerwelle (1961). After him are Gertrude of Sulzbach (1114), John Christian, Count Palatine of Sulzbach (1700), Prince Sigismund of Prussia (1896), Julius Röntgen (1855), Johannes Agricola (1494), and Juan José Linz (1926).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Johann Caspar Kerll ranks 126. Before him are Johann Baptist Cramer (1771), Norbert Burgmüller (1810), Johann Melchior Molter (1696), Heinrich Scheidemann (1596), Moritz Hauptmann (1792), and Johann Rosenmüller (1619). After him are Julius Röntgen (1855), Cornelius Gurlitt (1820), Nannette Streicher (1769), Vincent Lübeck (1654), Princess Amalie of Saxony (1794), and Ramin Djawadi (1974).

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