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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). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Kirnberger has received more than 66,917 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Johann Kirnberger is the 479th most popular composer (up from 613th in 2019), the 1,900th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,359th in 2019) and the 74th most popular German Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Johann Kirnberger ranks 479 out of 1,451. Before him are Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Maurice Duruflé, Zdeněk Fibich, Terry Riley, Remo Giazotto, and Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach. After him are Oscar Straus, Igor Markevitch, Charles Auguste de Bériot, Hans Christian Lumbye, Florent Schmitt, and Antonio Sacchini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1721, Johann Kirnberger ranks 8. Before him are Bernardo Bellotto, Countess Palatine Caroline of Zweibrücken, Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Louis Victor, Prince of Carignano, and Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes. After him are Countess Palatine Elisabeth Auguste of Sulzbach, Prince William, Duke of Cumberland, Anna Dorothea Therbusch, Abdulaziz bin Muhammad Al Saud, Samuel von Brukenthal, and Tobias Smollett. Among people deceased in 1783, Johann Kirnberger ranks 10. Before him are Johann Adolph Hasse, Grigory Orlov, Carl Linnaeus the Younger, Yosa Buson, Antonio Soler, and Franz Xaver Messerschmidt. After him are Princess Caroline Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt, Benedict Joseph Labre, Nikita Ivanovich Panin, Johann Jakob Bodmer, Christian Mayer, and William Hunter.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Kirnberger ranks 1,900 out of 7,253. Before him are Ernst Busch (1900), Heinrich Göbel (1818), Henry XIII, Duke of Bavaria (1235), Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann (1870), Lorenz Oken (1779), and Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach (1759). After him are Walter Stennes (1895), Princess Elisabeth of Thurn and Taxis (1860), Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1633), Friedrich Krupp (1787), Willi Hennig (1913), and Ernst Engel (1821).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Johann Kirnberger ranks 74. Before him are Johann Ludwig Bach (1677), Christoph Graupner (1683), Johann Gottfried Walther (1684), Johann Christoph Pepusch (1667), Albert Lortzing (1801), and Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach (1759). After him are Simon Mayr (1763), Franz Abt (1819), Peter Cornelius (1824), Carl Friedrich Zelter (1758), Curt Sachs (1881), and Fredrik Pacius (1809).

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