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Joseph Lanner

1801 - 1843

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Joseph Lanner (12 April 1801 – 14 April 1843) was an Austrian dance music composer and dance orchestra conductor. He is best remembered as one of the earliest Viennese composers to reform the waltz from a simple peasant dance to something that even the highest society could enjoy, either as an accompaniment to the dance, or for the music's own sake. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Lanner has received more than 85,033 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Joseph Lanner is the 298th most popular composer (up from 304th in 2019), the 295th most popular biography from Austria (up from 301st in 2019) and the 26th most popular Austrian Composer.

Joseph Lanner is most famous for his waltzes.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.40

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Joseph Lanner ranks 298 out of 1,451. Before him are Jaufre Rudel, Miklós Rózsa, Georg Böhm, Eugen d'Albert, François-Adrien Boieldieu, and Eduard Hanslick. After him are Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Josef Mysliveček, Klaus Schulze, Reynaldo Hahn, Nikolai Myaskovsky, and Henri Dutilleux.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1801, Joseph Lanner ranks 15. Before him are Johannes Peter Müller, Mikhail Ostrogradsky, Amalie Auguste of Bavaria, John Henry Newman, Thomas Cole, and Immanuel Nobel. After him are Antoine Augustin Cournot, Archduchess Marie Caroline of Austria, Maria Theresa of Austria, Princess Sophie of Sweden, Prince Charles of Prussia, and Moritz von Jacobi. Among people deceased in 1843, Joseph Lanner ranks 8. Before him are William I of the Netherlands, Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, Noah Webster, Samuel Hahnemann, Princess Louise Auguste of Denmark, and Theodoros Kolokotronis. After him are Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, Marie Anne Lenormand, Sequoyah, Peter Wittgenstein, Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, and Robert Southey.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Joseph Lanner ranks 295 out of 1,424. Before him are Felix Baumgartner (1969), Anne of Austria, Landgravine of Thuringia (1432), Georg von Peuerbach (1423), Katharina Schratt (1853), Hermann Buhl (1924), and Bertha Pappenheim (1859). After him are Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (1614), Clemence of Austria (1262), Maria Theresia von Paradis (1759), Friedrich von Wieser (1851), Rudolf Hilferding (1877), and Leopold Joseph von Daun (1705).

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Among COMPOSERS In Austria

Among composers born in Austria, Joseph Lanner ranks 26. Before him are Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739), Clemens Krauss (1893), Franz Xaver Gruber (1787), Johann Georg Albrechtsberger (1736), Max Steiner (1888), and Franz Xaver Süssmayr (1766). After him are Ludwig Ritter von Köchel (1800), Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (1620), Nikolaus I, Prince Esterházy (1714), Johann Joseph Fux (1660), Robert Stolz (1880), and Oscar Straus (1870).

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