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Johann Nicolaus Bach

1669 - 1753

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Johann Nicolaus Bach (or Johann Nikolaus Bach) (20 October [O.S. 10 October] 1669 – 4 November 1753) was a German composer of the Baroque period. Johann Nicolaus was the eldest son of Johann Christoph Bach and the second cousin of Johann Sebastian Bach. He was educated at the University of Jena, where he later became organist. He was probably born at Eisenach, where his father was employed as a musician, attended the Eisenach Latin school until 1689, and was a student of the Jena city organist J.M. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Nicolaus Bach has received more than 39,591 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Johann Nicolaus Bach is the 1,085th most popular composer (down from 1,035th in 2019), the 4,295th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,783rd in 2019) and the 161st most popular German Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Johann Nicolaus Bach ranks 1,085 out of 1,451. Before him are Jean Langlais, Ignaz Schuppanzigh, Henri Pousseur, Toivo Kuula, Semen Hulak-Artemovsky, and Carter Burwell. After him are Raymond Scott, Julius Rietz, Jaromír Weinberger, Heinrich Schenker, Shivkumar Sharma, and Emil Hartmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1669, Johann Nicolaus Bach ranks 13. Before him are Maria Antonia of Austria, Davit Bek, Prince George of Hesse-Darmstadt, Philip William, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt, Sébastien Vaillant, and Jacob Bruce. After him is Kanhoji Angre. Among people deceased in 1753, Johann Nicolaus Bach ranks 11. Before him are Gottfried Silbermann, Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon, Charles August, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg, Franciszka Urszula Radziwiłłowa, and Nicolas Fatio de Duillier. After him is Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Nicolaus Bach ranks 4,295 out of 7,253. Before him are Theo Waigel (1939), Elisabeth of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Duchess of Saxe-Altenburg (1593), Oliver Masucci (1968), Albrecht von Graefe (1828), Kornelia Ender (1958), and Nicolaus Michael Oppel (1782). After him are John II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (1584), Alfred Keller (1882), Felix Graf von Bothmer (1852), Brigitte Fassbaender (1939), Joachim Fuchsberger (1927), and Gustav Mie (1868).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Johann Nicolaus Bach ranks 161. Before him are Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse (1774), Otto Jahn (1813), Gustav Lange (1830), Hugo Distler (1908), Frederick Loewe (1901), and Jean Gilbert (1879). After him are Julius Rietz (1812), Karl Klindworth (1830), Klaus Badelt (1967), Robert Franz (1815), Ludwig Abeille (1761), and Boris Papandopulo (1906).

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