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Josef Bohuslav Foerster

1859 - 1951

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Josef Bohuslav Foerster (30 December 1859 – 29 May 1951) was a Czech composer and musicologist. He is often referred to as J. B. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Josef Bohuslav Foerster has received more than 57,571 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 20 in 2019). Josef Bohuslav Foerster is the 674th most popular composer (down from 652nd in 2019), the 303rd most popular biography from Czechia (down from 278th in 2019) and the 35th most popular Czech Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Josef Bohuslav Foerster ranks 674 out of 1,216Before him are Vittoria Aleotti, Thomas Newman, Johann Crüger, Franchinus Gaffurius, Sun Ra, and Anton Schindler. After him are Giuseppe Sammartini, Eduardo di Capua, André Messager, Isang Yun, Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, and Sergei Bortkiewicz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1859, Josef Bohuslav Foerster ranks 61Before him are Radko Dimitriev, Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield, Sen Katayama, Havelock Ellis, Kenneth Grahame, and Walther von Lüttwitz. After him are John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, Nahum Sokolow, Gustave Kahn, Christian von Ehrenfels, Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe, and Mikhail Rodzianko. Among people deceased in 1951, Josef Bohuslav Foerster ranks 69Before him are Géza Maróczy, Robert Grant Aitken, Liaquat Ali Khan, Maria Montez, Grand Duchess Maria Kirillovna of Russia, and Yoshio Nishina. After him are Warner Baxter, Louis Lavelle, Abanindranath Tagore, John Paine, Vasiliy Ulrikh, and Fritz Busch.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Josef Bohuslav Foerster ranks 303 out of 973Before him are Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst (1812), Artur London (1915), Prince Ernst of Hohenberg (1904), Károly Khuen-Héderváry (1849), Anton Schindler (1795), and Joseph von Sonnenfels (1732). After him are Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer (1656), Maria Restituta Kafka (1894), Karel Kosík (1926), Oskar Nedbal (1874), Miloslav Vlk (1932), and Adolf Scherer (1938).

Among COMPOSERS In Czechia

Among composers born in Czechia, Josef Bohuslav Foerster ranks 35Before him are Alois Hába (1893), Otakar Ševčík (1852), Paul Wranitzky (1756), Florian Leopold Gassmann (1729), Adalbert Gyrowetz (1763), and Anton Schindler (1795). After him are Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer (1656), Oskar Nedbal (1874), František Brixi (1732), Leo Fall (1873), Franz Krommer (1759), and Václav Tomášek (1774).