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Johann Melchior Molter

1696 - 1765

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Johann Melchior Molter (10 February 1696 – 12 January 1765) was a German composer and violinist of the late Baroque period. He was born at Tiefenort, near Eisenach, and was educated at the Gymnasium in Eisenach. By autumn 1717 he had left Eisenach and was working as a violinist in Karlsruhe. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Melchior Molter has received more than 62,361 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Melchior Molter is the 759th most popular composer (down from 665th in 2019), the 3,030th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,559th in 2019) and the 122nd most popular German Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Johann Melchior Molter ranks 759 out of 1,451. Before him are Johann Baptist Cramer, Gabriel Yared, Luis de Narváez, Boris Asafyev, Giacomo Antonio Perti, and Norbert Burgmüller. After him are Giovanni Animuccia, Arnold Bax, Maurice Emmanuel, Heinrich Sutermeister, Francesco Manfredini, and La Monte Young.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1696, Johann Melchior Molter ranks 10. Before him are Alphonsus Liguori, Abram Petrovich Gannibal, Maurice de Saxe, Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, Princess Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, and Joseph Wenzel I, Prince of Liechtenstein. After him are Vakhushti of Kartli, Francesca Cuzzoni, Christian August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, Marco Foscarini, Eleonore Wilhelmine of Anhalt-Köthen, and Shah Jahan II. Among people deceased in 1765, Johann Melchior Molter ranks 16. Before him are Princess Sophia Dorothea of Prussia, Landgravine Marie Louise of Hesse-Kassel, Prince William, Duke of Cumberland, Mir Jafar, Edward Young, and Johan Agrell. After him are Carl Alexander Clerck, Prokop Diviš, Richard Pococke, William Stukeley, and Prince Frederick of Great Britain.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Melchior Molter ranks 3,030 out of 7,253. Before him are Salomea of Berg (1093), Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck (1776), Johann Theodor of Bavaria (1703), Ulf Kirsten (1965), Oliver Hirschbiegel (1957), and Princess Anna of Saxony (1836). After him are John VII, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1558), Theodoric of Freiberg (1250), Karl-Heinz Riedle (1965), Heinrich von Brentano (1904), Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1772), and Marcel Ophüls (1927).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Johann Melchior Molter ranks 122. Before him are Matthias Weckmann (1619), Paul Ben-Haim (1897), Johann Gottlieb Naumann (1741), Christian Cannabich (1731), Johann Baptist Cramer (1771), and Norbert Burgmüller (1810). After him are Heinrich Scheidemann (1596), Moritz Hauptmann (1792), Johann Rosenmüller (1619), Johann Caspar Kerll (1627), Julius Röntgen (1855), and Cornelius Gurlitt (1820).

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