1721 - 1783
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, Johann Kirnberger ranks 613 out of 1,216. Before 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.
1887 - 1974
HPI: 54.29
Rank: 607
1913 - 2007
HPI: 54.25
Rank: 608
1893 - 1973
HPI: 54.25
Rank: 609
1816 - 1898
HPI: 54.24
Rank: 610
1945 - 2006
HPI: 54.21
Rank: 611
1645 - 1706
HPI: 54.16
Rank: 612
1721 - 1783
HPI: 54.13
Rank: 613
1819 - 1885
HPI: 54.12
Rank: 614
1727 - 1797
HPI: 54.12
Rank: 615
1711 - 1779
HPI: 54.12
Rank: 616
1841 - 1922
HPI: 54.09
Rank: 617
1497 - 1543
HPI: 54.09
Rank: 618
1545 - 1607
HPI: 54.06
Rank: 619
Among people born in 1721, Johann Kirnberger ranks 12. Before 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 14. Before 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.
1721 - 1778
HPI: 56.74
Rank: 6
1721 - 1794
HPI: 56.49
Rank: 7
1721 - 1792
HPI: 56.47
Rank: 8
1721 - 1794
HPI: 54.54
Rank: 9
1721 - 1771
HPI: 54.25
Rank: 10
1721 - 1803
HPI: 54.18
Rank: 11
1721 - 1783
HPI: 54.13
Rank: 12
1721 - 1803
HPI: 53.86
Rank: 13
1721 - 1794
HPI: 53.04
Rank: 14
1721 - 1800
HPI: 51.74
Rank: 15
1721 - 1782
HPI: 50.54
Rank: 16
1721 - 1797
HPI: 49.19
Rank: 17
1721 - 1793
HPI: 48.53
Rank: 18
1741 - 1783
HPI: 57.80
Rank: 8
1736 - 1783
HPI: 57.49
Rank: 9
1748 - 1783
HPI: 56.13
Rank: 10
1718 - 1783
HPI: 56.10
Rank: 11
1723 - 1783
HPI: 55.11
Rank: 12
1698 - 1783
HPI: 54.69
Rank: 13
1721 - 1783
HPI: 54.13
Rank: 14
1719 - 1783
HPI: 50.41
Rank: 15
1711 - 1783
HPI: 50.21
Rank: 16
1705 - 1783
HPI: 49.70
Rank: 17
1718 - 1783
HPI: 49.25
Rank: 18
1716 - 1783
HPI: 48.45
Rank: 19
Among people born in Germany, Johann Kirnberger ranks 2,362 out of 6,142. Before 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).
1645 - 1706
HPI: 54.16
Rank: 2,356
1735 - 1787
HPI: 54.15
Rank: 2,357
365 - 430
HPI: 54.15
Rank: 2,358
1917 - 1966
HPI: 54.15
Rank: 2,359
1453 - 1527
HPI: 54.14
Rank: 2,360
1875 - 1955
HPI: 54.14
Rank: 2,361
1721 - 1783
HPI: 54.13
Rank: 2,362
1897 - 1945
HPI: 54.13
Rank: 2,363
1841 - 1876
HPI: 54.13
Rank: 2,364
1900 - 1967
HPI: 54.13
Rank: 2,365
1942 - Present
HPI: 54.13
Rank: 2,366
1877 - 1957
HPI: 54.12
Rank: 2,367
1886 - 1966
HPI: 54.12
Rank: 2,368
Among composers born in Germany, Johann Kirnberger ranks 95. Before 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).
1918 - 1970
HPI: 54.80
Rank: 89
1500 - 1570
HPI: 54.73
Rank: 90
1883 - 1956
HPI: 54.40
Rank: 91
1814 - 1889
HPI: 54.35
Rank: 92
1891 - 1966
HPI: 54.33
Rank: 93
1645 - 1706
HPI: 54.16
Rank: 94
1721 - 1783
HPI: 54.13
Rank: 95
1819 - 1885
HPI: 54.12
Rank: 96
1771 - 1858
HPI: 53.97
Rank: 97
1839 - 1900
HPI: 53.90
Rank: 98
1619 - 1674
HPI: 53.69
Rank: 99
1696 - 1765
HPI: 53.47
Rank: 100
1598 - 1662
HPI: 53.43
Rank: 101