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Johann Gottfried Walther

1684 - 1748

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Johann Gottfried Walther (18 September 1684 – 23 March 1748) was a German music theorist, organist, composer, and lexicographer of the Baroque era. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Gottfried Walther has received more than 84,130 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Johann Gottfried Walther is the 457th most popular composer (down from 454th in 2019), the 1,810th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,745th in 2019) and the 70th most popular German Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Johann Gottfried Walther ranks 457 out of 1,451Before him are Pierre de la Rue, Moritz Moszkowski, Bernhard Crusell, Emilio de' Cavalieri, Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, and Christoph Graupner. After him are Franck Pourcel, Georgy Sviridov, Hans Pfitzner, Mélanie Bonis, Gaspar Sanz, and Giovanni Pacini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1684, Johann Gottfried Walther ranks 8Before him are Jean-Antoine Watteau, Ludvig Holberg, Maria Barbara Bach, Francesco Durante, Tokugawa Yoshimune, and Charles Alexander, Duke of Württemberg. After him are Jean-Baptiste van Loo, Robert Maynard, Kimpa Vita, Edward Vernon, Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, and Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isle. Among people deceased in 1748, Johann Gottfried Walther ranks 6Before him are Johann Bernoulli, Nizam-ul-Mulk, Asaf Jah I, Countess Palatine Dorothea Sophie of Neuburg, Ewald Georg von Kleist, and Abul Khair Khan. After him are Johann Nepomuk Karl, Prince of Liechtenstein, Ernest Augustus I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Ebrahim Afshar, Muhammad Shah, Margravine Elisabeth Sophie of Brandenburg, and William Kent.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Gottfried Walther ranks 1,810 out of 7,253Before him are George II, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1605), Christoph Graupner (1683), Michael Schenker (1955), Herbert Kappler (1907), Adolf Bastian (1826), and Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1818). After him are William III, Landgrave of Thuringia (1425), Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia (1772), Robert Enke (1977), Miguel, Duke of Braganza (1853), Johann Arndt (1555), and Kathrine Switzer (1947).

Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Johann Gottfried Walther ranks 70Before him are Heinrich Marschner (1795), Friedrich von Flotow (1812), Ferdinand Hiller (1811), Joseph Martin Kraus (1756), Johann Ludwig Bach (1677), and Christoph Graupner (1683). After him are Johann Christoph Pepusch (1667), Albert Lortzing (1801), Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach (1759), Johann Kirnberger (1721), Simon Mayr (1763), and Franz Abt (1819).