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Johann Gottlieb Graun

1703 - 1771

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Johann Gottlieb Graun (1702/1703 – 28 October 1771) was a German Baroque/Classical era composer and violinist, born in Wahrenbrück. His brother Carl Heinrich was a singer and also a composer, and is the better known of the two. Johann Gottlieb studied with J.G. Pisendel in Dresden and Giuseppe Tartini in Padua. Appointed Konzertmeister in Merseburg in 1726, he taught the violin to J.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Gottlieb Graun has received more than 49,842 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Johann Gottlieb Graun is the 778th most popular composer (up from 779th in 2019).

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  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 1.59

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Johann Gottlieb Graun ranks 778 out of 1,451. Before him are Joseph Weigl, Claudin de Sermisy, Gaetano Pugnani, Felip Pedrell, George Onslow, and Andrzej Panufnik. After him are Eduard Artemyev, Lee Konitz, Wilhelm Kienzl, Claude Le Jeune, Erkki Melartin, and Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1703, Johann Gottlieb Graun ranks 11. Before him are Louis, Duke of Orléans, Shah Waliullah Dehlawi, Jonathan Edwards, Anton Wilhelm Amo, Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Baden-Durlach, and Johann Theodor of Bavaria. After him are Aleksei Chirikov, Vasily Trediakovsky, Jack Broughton, Mary Toft, Jean-François Séguier, and Kashibai. Among people deceased in 1771, Johann Gottlieb Graun ranks 15. Before him are Alexei Razumovsky, John Bevis, Frederick William, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt, Tobias Smollett, František Brixi, and Thomas Gray. After him are Dmitry Laptev, William Fermor, Augustus George, Margrave of Baden-Baden, Infanta Maria Doroteia of Portugal, Konrad Ernst Ackermann, and Jan Klemens Branicki.

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