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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 59,886 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Melchior Molter is the 665th most popular composer (down from 656th in 2019), the 2,562nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,426th in 2019) and the 100th most popular German Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Johann Melchior Molter ranks 665 out of 1,216Before him are Ludwig Senfl, Louis Andriessen, Jean-Joseph de Mondonville, Bartolomeo Tromboncino, Adalbert Gyrowetz, and Ildebrando Pizzetti. After him are Hans Rott, Joseph Canteloube, Vittoria Aleotti, Thomas Newman, Johann Crüger, and Franchinus Gaffurius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1696, Johann Melchior Molter ranks 10Before him are Alphonsus Liguori, Abram Petrovich Gannibal, Maurice de Saxe, Princess Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, and Joseph Wenzel I, Prince of Liechtenstein. After him are Marco Foscarini, Christian August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, Francesca Cuzzoni, Shah Jahan II, Henry Home, Lord Kames, and Maurice Greene. Among people deceased in 1765, Johann Melchior Molter ranks 14Before him are Axel Fredrik Cronstedt, Charles-André van Loo, Prince William, Duke of Cumberland, Princess Sophia Dorothea of Prussia, Landgravine Marie Louise of Hesse-Kassel, and Edward Young. After him are Mir Jafar, Johan Agrell, Carl Alexander Clerck, William Stukeley, Prince Frederick of Great Britain, and Richard Pococke.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Melchior Molter ranks 2,562 out of 6,142Before him are Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1794), Gisela of Burgundy (950), Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1772), Adam Müller (1779), Arno Peters (1916), and Walter Frentz (1907). After him are Gertrude of Süpplingenburg (1115), Princess Henriëtte Amalia of Anhalt-Dessau (1666), Henry E. Steinway (1797), Richard Hildebrandt (1897), Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia (1865), and Duke George of Oldenburg (1784).

Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Johann Melchior Molter ranks 100Before him are Andreas Werckmeister (1645), Johann Kirnberger (1721), Franz Abt (1819), Johann Baptist Cramer (1771), Hermann Levi (1839), and Matthias Weckmann (1619). After him are Johann Crüger (1598), Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877), Christian Cannabich (1731), Franz Lachner (1803), Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow (1663), and Johann Caspar Kerll (1627).