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Johann van Beethoven

1740 - 1792

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Johann van Beethoven (c. 1739 or 1740 – 18 December 1792) was a German musician, teacher, and singer who sang in the chapel of the Archbishop of Cologne, whose court was at Bonn. He is best known as the father of the celebrated composer Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann van Beethoven has received more than 581,612 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Johann van Beethoven is the 408th most popular composer (up from 426th in 2019), the 1,612th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,595th in 2019) and the 60th most popular German Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Johann van Beethoven ranks 408 out of 1,216. Before him are Józef Elsner, Terry Riley, Jacob Clemens non Papa, Wolfgang Wagner, Charles Koechlin, and André Jolivet. After him are Maria Szymanowska, Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Joaquín Turina, Giovanni Pacini, Oscar Straus, and Koichi Sugiyama.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1740, Johann van Beethoven ranks 11. Before him are Isabelle de Charrière, Jeanne Baret, Horace Bénédict de Saussure, Carl Michael Bellman, Johann Jacob Schweppe, and Giambattista Bodoni. After him are Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay, Louis-Sébastien Mercier, Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein, Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine, James Boswell, and Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau. Among people deceased in 1792, Johann van Beethoven ranks 13. Before him are Richard Arkwright, John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, Joseph Martin Kraus, Nguyễn Huệ, Tiradentes, and Robert Adam. After him are Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz, Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Legall de Kermeur, Jacques Cazotte, Denis Fonvizin, and Antonio Rosetti.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann van Beethoven ranks 1,612 out of 6,142. Before him are Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (1783), Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia (1772), Louis IV, Landgrave of Thuringia (1200), Florian Schneider (1947), Albert, 8th Prince of Thurn and Taxis (1867), and Eugen Jochum (1902). After him are Matthias Sammer (1967), Horst Seehofer (1949), Joschka Fischer (1948), Albert Bierstadt (1830), Princess Margaret of Prussia (1872), and Ludwig Büchner (1824).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Johann van Beethoven ranks 60. Before him are Johann Schein (1586), Carl Heinrich Graun (1704), Klaus Schulze (1947), Ferdinand Ries (1784), Hans Werner Henze (1926), and Wolfgang Wagner (1919). After him are Hugo Riemann (1849), Albert Lortzing (1801), Heinrich Marschner (1795), Johann Christoph Bach (1671), Hans Leo Hassler (1564), and Ferdinand Hiller (1811).

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