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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 46,528 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Johann Gottlieb Graun is the 780th most popular composer (up from 790th in 2019).

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  • 16

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Johann Gottlieb Graun ranks 780 out of 1,216Before him are Sylvano Bussotti, Giuseppe Gazzaniga, Antoine Brumel, Václav Tomášek, Claude Balbastre, and André Caplet. After him are Nie Er, Paul Ben-Haim, Jan Kalivoda, Johann Schobert, Edward MacDowell, and Alexander Tcherepnin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1703, Johann Gottlieb Graun ranks 10Before him are John Wesley, Louis, Duke of Orléans, Shah Waliullah Dehlawi, Jonathan Edwards, Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Baden-Durlach, and Anton Wilhelm Amo. After him are Johann Theodor of Bavaria, Aleksei Chirikov, Vasily Trediakovsky, and Mary Toft. Among people deceased in 1771, Johann Gottlieb Graun ranks 15Before him are Alexei Razumovsky, Thomas Gray, John Bevis, Tobias Smollett, František Brixi, and Frederick William, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt. After him are Dmitry Laptev, Infanta Maria Doroteia of Portugal, William Fermor, Augustus George, Margrave of Baden-Baden, Konrad Ernst Ackermann, and Jan Klemens Branicki.

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