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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 80,059 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Joseph Lanner is the 304th most popular composer, the 301st most popular biography from Austria (down from 292nd in 2019) and the 26th most popular Austrian Composer.

Joseph Lanner is most famous for his waltzes.

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  • 59.67

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  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.56

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Joseph Lanner ranks 304 out of 1,216. Before him are Rodolphe Kreutzer, Gustav Leonhardt, Saverio Mercadante, Sylvius Leopold Weiss, Georg Böhm, and Andrea Luchesi. After him are Reynaldo Hahn, André Campra, Miklós Rózsa, Giovanni Bottesini, Clemens Krauss, and Leonardo Leo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1801, Joseph Lanner ranks 13. Before him are Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria, Amalie Auguste of Bavaria, John Henry Newman, Johannes Peter Müller, Joseph Plateau, and Mikhail Ostrogradsky. After him are Archduchess Marie Caroline of Austria, Antoine Augustin Cournot, Princess Sophie of Sweden, Prince Charles of Prussia, George Biddell Airy, and Thomas Cole. Among people deceased in 1843, Joseph Lanner ranks 7. Before him are Friedrich Hölderlin, William I of the Netherlands, Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, Samuel Hahnemann, Princess Louise Auguste of Denmark, and Theodoros Kolokotronis. After him are Marie Anne Lenormand, Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, Sequoyah, Peter Wittgenstein, Charles Macintosh, and Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Joseph Lanner ranks 301 out of 1,237. Before him are Otto Robert Frisch (1904), Countess Georgina von Wilczek (1921), Lotte Lenya (1898), Bertha Pappenheim (1859), Adam Albert von Neipperg (1775), and Anne of Austria, Landgravine of Thuringia (1432). After him are Archduchess Marie Caroline of Austria (1801), Clemens Krauss (1893), Hans Makart (1840), Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria (1737), Clemence of Austria (1262), and Joe Zawinul (1932).

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Among COMPOSERS In Austria

Among composers born in Austria, Joseph Lanner ranks 26. Before him are Franz Xaver Süssmayr (1766), Franz Xaver Gruber (1787), Johann Georg Albrechtsberger (1736), Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739), Ludwig Ritter von Köchel (1800), and Max Steiner (1888). After him are Clemens Krauss (1893), Nikolaus I, Prince Esterházy (1714), Johann Joseph Fux (1660), Oscar Straus (1870), Robert Stolz (1880), and Georg Christoph Wagenseil (1715).

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