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Johann Joachim Quantz

1697 - 1773

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Johann Joachim Quantz (German: [kvants]; 30 January 1697 – 12 July 1773) was a German composer, flutist and flute maker of the late Baroque period. Much of his professional career was spent in the court of Frederick the Great. Quantz composed hundreds of flute sonatas and concertos, and wrote On Playing the Flute, an influential treatise on flute performance. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Joachim Quantz has received more than 182,762 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Joachim Quantz is the 198th most popular composer (down from 191st in 2019), the 774th most popular biography from Germany (down from 700th in 2019) and the 29th most popular German Composer.

Johann Joachim Quantz was a German composer and flutist. He is most famous for his book on the flute, Versuch einer Anweisung die Flöte traversiere zu spielen.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Johann Joachim Quantz ranks 198 out of 1,451. Before him are Witold Lutosławski, Anna Maria Mozart, Johann Stamitz, Umberto Giordano, François-Joseph Gossec, and Philippe de Vitry. After him are Ludwig Minkus, Niels Gade, Eugène Ysaÿe, André Grétry, Alexander von Zemlinsky, and Michael Praetorius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1697, Johann Joachim Quantz ranks 4. Before him are Canaletto, Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor, and William Hogarth. After him are Jean-Marie Leclair, Antoine François Prévost, Francis Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Mahmud Hotak, Louise Hippolyte, Princess of Monaco, Faustina Bordoni, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville, and Nicola Salvi. Among people deceased in 1773, Johann Joachim Quantz ranks 3. Before him are Mustafa III, and Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia. After him are Ali Bey al-Kabir, Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Luigi Vanvitelli, Paisius of Hilendar, Philibert Commerson, Princess Anne Charlotte of Lorraine, Anton Janša, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, and Johan Ernst Gunnerus.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Joachim Quantz ranks 774 out of 7,253. Before him are Markus Wolf (1923), Ralf Dahrendorf (1929), Constantin Fehrenbach (1852), Juana Bormann (1893), James Last (1929), and Therese Neumann (1898). After him are Gustav Radbruch (1878), Wilhelm Cuno (1876), Wilhelm Bittrich (1894), Franz Joseph Gall (1758), Theodor W. Hänsch (1941), and Richard von Krafft-Ebing (1840).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Johann Joachim Quantz ranks 29. Before him are Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732), Fanny Mendelssohn (1805), Max Bruch (1838), Kurt Weill (1900), Max Reger (1873), and Louis Spohr (1784). After him are Michael Praetorius (1571), Johann Ambrosius Bach (1645), Eduard Künneke (1885), Johann Adolph Hasse (1699), Duchess Maria Antonia of Bavaria (1724), and Johann Christoph Bach (1642).

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