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Johann Friedrich Agricola

1720 - 1774

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Johann Friedrich Agricola (4 January 1720 – 2 December 1774) was a German composer, organist, singer, pedagogue, and writer on music. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Friedrich Agricola has received more than 59,461 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Johann Friedrich Agricola is the 661st most popular composer (up from 755th in 2019), the 2,634th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,861st in 2019) and the 105th most popular German Composer.

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  • 59k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.54

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.19

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.58

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Johann Friedrich Agricola ranks 661 out of 1,451. Before him are Heinz Holliger, Péter Eötvös, Sun Ra, Anton Schindler, Pietro Filippo Scarlatti, and Oskar Merikanto. After him are Jacob van Eyck, Johann Schobert, Johann Strauss III, Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli, William Boyce, and Antoine François Marmontel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1720, Johann Friedrich Agricola ranks 18. Before him are Vilna Gaon, Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, Emmanuel-Armand de Richelieu, duc d'Aiguillon, Hyder Ali, and Honoré III, Prince of Monaco. After him are Johann Schobert, Maximilian Hell, Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini, Charles De Geer, Balaji Baji Rao, and Justus Möser. Among people deceased in 1774, Johann Friedrich Agricola ranks 12. Before him are Niccolò Jommelli, Countess Palatine Caroline of Zweibrücken, Jacques-François Blondel, Duke Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick, Countess Caroline of Nassau-Saarbrücken, and Oliver Goldsmith. After him are Florian Leopold Gassmann, Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin, Wilhelm Reinhard von Neipperg, Anna Morandi Manzolini, Johan Peter Falk, and Otto von Münchhausen.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Friedrich Agricola ranks 2,634 out of 7,253. Before him are Leo Löwenthal (1900), Maximilian Henry of Bavaria (1621), Wilhelm Marschall (1886), Wilhelm Raabe (1831), Prince Charles of Hesse and by Rhine (1809), and John Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (1627). After him are Oskar von Hutier (1857), Princess Maria Anna of Saxony (1799), Stephen I, Duke of Bavaria (1271), Heinrich Ehrler (1917), Erwin Jaenecke (1890), and John II, Count Palatine of Simmern (1492).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Johann Friedrich Agricola ranks 105. Before him are Johann Nikolaus Forkel (1749), Adolf von Henselt (1814), Max Richter (1966), Karl Amadeus Hartmann (1905), Herms Niel (1888), and Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877). After him are Ferdinand David (1810), Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg (1718), Andreas Werckmeister (1645), Johann Andreas Stein (1728), Conradin Kreutzer (1780), and Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow (1663).

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