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Johann Nikolaus Forkel

1749 - 1818

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Johann Nikolaus Forkel (22 February 1749 – 20 March 1818) was a German musicologist and music theorist, generally regarded as among the founders of modern musicology. His publications include the two-volume Allgemeine Geschichte der Musik (General History of Music), among the first attempts at a history of Western music and the "ground-breaking music bibliography" Allgemeine Litteratur der Musik. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Nikolaus Forkel has received more than 63,966 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Nikolaus Forkel is the 622nd most popular composer (down from 566th in 2019), the 2,430th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,192nd in 2019) and the 99th most popular German Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Johann Nikolaus Forkel ranks 622 out of 1,451. Before him are Robert Fuchs, Morton Feldman, Alois Hába, Francesco Canova da Milano, Jeremiah Clarke, and Léon Boëllmann. After him are Pancho Vladigerov, Tomaso Antonio Vitali, Adolf von Henselt, Andrea Falconieri, Claude Goudimel, and Riccardo Zandonai.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1749, Johann Nikolaus Forkel ranks 20. Before him are Abraham Gottlob Werner, Vittorio Alfieri, Alexander Radishchev, Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois, Martin Vahl, and Georg Joseph Vogler. After him are Charles James Fox, Christian August Lorentzen, Princess Louisa of Great Britain, John Sims, Charles Wilkins, and Gertrud Elisabeth Mara. Among people deceased in 1818, Johann Nikolaus Forkel ranks 24. Before him are Frederick Louis, Prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen, Marcello Bacciarelli, Giuseppe Gazzaniga, Leopold Koželuch, Duchess Charlotte Georgine of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and Marie-Gabrielle Capet. After him are Caspar Wessel, Countess Maria Louise Albertine of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg, Herman Willem Daendels, Anne Vallayer-Coster, Matvei Platov, and Inō Tadataka.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Nikolaus Forkel ranks 2,430 out of 7,253. Before him are Winfried Schäfer (1950), Oskar Barnack (1879), Wieland Wagner (1917), Lujo Brentano (1844), Princess Hilda of Nassau (1864), and Friedrich Hoffmann (1660). After him are Heinz-Harald Frentzen (1967), Solomon Perel (1925), Eugen Ritter von Schobert (1883), Christine of Hesse (1543), Frederick I, Duke of Anhalt (1831), and Paul de Lagarde (1827).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Johann Nikolaus Forkel ranks 99. Before him are Hermann Scherchen (1891), Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch (1736), Johann Ludwig Krebs (1713), Johann David Heinichen (1683), Reinhard Keiser (1674), and Helmut Lachenmann (1935). After him are Adolf von Henselt (1814), Max Richter (1966), Karl Amadeus Hartmann (1905), Herms Niel (1888), Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877), and Johann Friedrich Agricola (1720).

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