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Johann van Beethoven

1740 - 1792

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Johann van Beethoven (14 November 1749 – 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). Johann became an alcoholic later in his life and was at times an abusive father to Ludwig. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann van Beethoven has received more than 575,661 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Johann van Beethoven is the 287th most popular composer (up from 408th in 2019), the 1,160th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,612th in 2019) and the 44th most popular German Composer.

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  • 60.64

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.75

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Johann van Beethoven has had the most page views in the with 67,768 views, followed by Arabic (23,325), and Spanish (14,242). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Hindi (109.56%), Finnish (98.02%), and Arabic (96.01%)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Johann van Beethoven ranks 287 out of 1,451. Before him are Rodolphe Kreutzer, Antonio Lotti, Giovanni Battista Sammartini, Alessandro Stradella, Martin Agricola, and Johann Jakob Froberger. After him are Hugo Alfvén, Friedrich Kuhlau, Keith Emerson, Alberto Ginastera, Jaufre Rudel, and Miklós Rózsa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1740, Johann van Beethoven ranks 8. Before him are Ivan VI of Russia, Giovanni Paisiello, Empress Go-Sakuramachi, Isabelle de Charrière, Horace Bénédict de Saussure, and Jeanne Baret. After him are Johann Jacob Schweppe, Carl Michael Bellman, Giambattista Bodoni, Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay, Louis-Sébastien Mercier, and Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein. Among people deceased in 1792, Johann van Beethoven ranks 8. Before him are Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, Gustav III of Sweden, Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe, Joshua Reynolds, Maria Luisa of Spain, and Richard Arkwright. After him are John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, Jacques Cazotte, Nguyễn Huệ, Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Tiradentes, and Robert Adam.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann van Beethoven ranks 1,160 out of 7,253. Before him are Adam Elsheimer (1578), Theodelinda (570), Franz Karl Achard (1753), Carl Clauberg (1898), Infanta Maria Theresa of Portugal (1855), and Johann Jakob Froberger (1616). After him are Sigmund Jähn (1937), James Mayer de Rothschild (1792), Pascual Jordan (1902), Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden (1826), Hans Magnus Enzensberger (1929), and Gottfried Benn (1886).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Johann van Beethoven ranks 44. Before him are Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1709), Hanns Eisler (1898), Engelbert Humperdinck (1854), Carl Reinecke (1824), Carl Stamitz (1745), and Johann Jakob Froberger (1616). After him are Friedrich Kuhlau (1786), Georg Böhm (1661), Klaus Schulze (1947), Christian Gottlob Neefe (1748), Johann Schein (1586), and Hans Leo Hassler (1564).

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