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Johann Kirnberger

1721 - 1783

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Johann Philipp Kirnberger (also Kernberg; 24 April 1721, Saalfeld – 27 July 1783, Berlin) was a musician, composer (primarily of fugues), and music theorist. He studied the organ with Johann Peter Kellner and Heinrich Nicolaus Gerber, and starting in 1738 he studied with the violinist Meil in Sondershausen, but most significant is the time he spent from 1739 until 1741 (with breaks) studying performance and composition with Johann Sebastian Bach.Between 1741 and 1751 Kirnberger lived and worked in Poland for powerful magnates including Lubomirski, Poninski, and Rzewuski before ending up at the Benedictine Cloister in Lviv (then part of Poland). He spent much time collecting Polish national dances and compiled them in his treatise Die Charaktere der Tänze.: 211  Kirnberger played a significant role in the intellectual and cultural exchange between Germany and Poland in the mid-18th century.Kirnberger became a violinist at the court of Frederick the Great in 1751. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Kirnberger has received more than 61,769 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Johann Kirnberger is the 613th most popular composer (down from 582nd in 2019), the 2,362nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,190th in 2019) and the 95th most popular German Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Johann Kirnberger ranks 613 out of 1,216Before him are Kurt Atterberg, Tikhon Khrennikov, Alois Hába, Antoine François Marmontel, Basil Poledouris, and Andreas Werckmeister. After him are Franz Abt, Pasquale Anfossi, William Boyce, Felip Pedrell, Francesco Canova da Milano, and Luzzasco Luzzaschi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1721, Johann Kirnberger ranks 12Before him are Louis Victor, Prince of Carignano, Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Countess Palatine Elisabeth Auguste of Sulzbach, Tobias Smollett, and Samuel von Brukenthal. After him are Abdulaziz bin Muhammad Al Saud, Frederick Christian I, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, Joseph de Guignes, Anna Dorothea Therbusch, Francesco Sabatini, and Roger Sherman. Among people deceased in 1783, Johann Kirnberger ranks 14Before him are Carl Linnaeus the Younger, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, Benedict Joseph Labre, Nikita Ivanovich Panin, Princess Caroline Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt, and Johann Jakob Bodmer. After him are Christian Mayer, Ignaz Holzbauer, Gerhard Friedrich Müller, William Hunter, and Capability Brown.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Kirnberger ranks 2,362 out of 6,142Before him are Andreas Werckmeister (1645), Johann Karl August Musäus (1735), Honoratus (365), Wieland Wagner (1917), Christoph I, Margrave of Baden-Baden (1453), and Konstantin Hierl (1875). After him are Peter Högl (1897), Philipp Mainländer (1841), Oskar Fischinger (1900), Günter Wallraff (1942), Wilhelm Filchner (1877), and Otto von Knobelsdorff (1886).

Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Johann Kirnberger ranks 95Before him are Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918), Tielman Susato (1500), Hermann Abendroth (1883), Adolf von Henselt (1814), Hermann Scherchen (1891), and Andreas Werckmeister (1645). After him are Franz Abt (1819), Johann Baptist Cramer (1771), Hermann Levi (1839), Matthias Weckmann (1619), Johann Melchior Molter (1696), and Johann Crüger (1598).