1756 - 1792
Joseph Martin Kraus (20 June 1756 – 15 December 1792), was a German-Swedish composer in the Classical era who was born in Miltenberg am Main, Germany. He moved to Sweden at age 21, and died at the age of 36 in Stockholm. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Martin Kraus has received more than 111,987 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Martin Kraus is the 362nd most popular composer (down from 328th in 2019), the 1,394th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,247th in 2019) and the 52nd most popular German Composer.
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Among composers, Joseph Martin Kraus ranks 362 out of 1,216. Before him are Michel Richard Delalande, Jan Ladislav Dussek, Georg Muffat, Michael Nyman, Johann Kuhnau, and Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska. After him are Friedrich von Flotow, György Kurtág, Alfred Newman, Mieczysław Weinberg, Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, and Johann Schein.
1657 - 1726
HPI: 58.63
Rank: 356
1760 - 1812
HPI: 58.62
Rank: 357
1653 - 1704
HPI: 58.60
Rank: 358
1944 - Present
HPI: 58.58
Rank: 359
1660 - 1722
HPI: 58.58
Rank: 360
1834 - 1861
HPI: 58.56
Rank: 361
1756 - 1792
HPI: 58.54
Rank: 362
1812 - 1883
HPI: 58.51
Rank: 363
1926 - Present
HPI: 58.49
Rank: 364
1900 - 1970
HPI: 58.46
Rank: 365
1919 - 1996
HPI: 58.39
Rank: 366
1806 - 1826
HPI: 58.36
Rank: 367
1586 - 1630
HPI: 58.35
Rank: 368
Among people born in 1756, Joseph Martin Kraus ranks 10. Before him are William Godwin, Maria Theresa of Savoy, Aaron Burr, Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy, Ernst Chladni, and Frederick Francis I, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. After him are Louis Henri, Prince of Condé, Jean-Baptiste Carrier, Wojciech Żywny, Bernard Germain de Lacépède, Duke Louis of Württemberg, and Jacques-Nicolas Billaud-Varenne. Among people deceased in 1792, Joseph Martin Kraus ranks 9. Before him are Gustav III of Sweden, Maria Luisa of Spain, Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe, Joshua Reynolds, Richard Arkwright, and John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich. After him are Nguyễn Huệ, Tiradentes, Robert Adam, Johann van Beethoven, Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz, and Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel.
1756 - 1836
HPI: 64.89
Rank: 4
1756 - 1805
HPI: 61.56
Rank: 5
1756 - 1836
HPI: 60.67
Rank: 6
1756 - 1791
HPI: 60.58
Rank: 7
1756 - 1827
HPI: 59.32
Rank: 8
1756 - 1837
HPI: 58.96
Rank: 9
1756 - 1792
HPI: 58.54
Rank: 10
1756 - 1830
HPI: 58.47
Rank: 11
1756 - 1794
HPI: 57.89
Rank: 12
1756 - 1842
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 13
1756 - 1825
HPI: 56.14
Rank: 14
1756 - 1817
HPI: 55.35
Rank: 15
1756 - 1819
HPI: 55.31
Rank: 16
1746 - 1792
HPI: 70.27
Rank: 3
1745 - 1792
HPI: 66.72
Rank: 4
1749 - 1792
HPI: 65.92
Rank: 5
1723 - 1792
HPI: 65.05
Rank: 6
1732 - 1792
HPI: 63.63
Rank: 7
1718 - 1792
HPI: 58.62
Rank: 8
1756 - 1792
HPI: 58.54
Rank: 9
1752 - 1792
HPI: 57.73
Rank: 10
1746 - 1792
HPI: 57.59
Rank: 11
1728 - 1792
HPI: 57.52
Rank: 12
1740 - 1792
HPI: 57.42
Rank: 13
1751 - 1792
HPI: 57.19
Rank: 14
1721 - 1792
HPI: 56.47
Rank: 15
Among people born in Germany, Joseph Martin Kraus ranks 1,394 out of 6,142. Before him are Bert Trautmann (1923), Hugo Schmeisser (1884), Franz Seldte (1882), Boris Becker (1967), Andreas Brehme (1960), and Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (1962). After him are Louis IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1719), Marie of Hesse-Kassel (1767), Christa Ludwig (1928), Fritz Thyssen (1873), Lilli Palmer (1914), and Friedrich von Flotow (1812).
1923 - 2013
HPI: 58.56
Rank: 1,388
1884 - 1953
HPI: 58.55
Rank: 1,389
1882 - 1947
HPI: 58.55
Rank: 1,390
1967 - Present
HPI: 58.55
Rank: 1,391
1960 - 2024
HPI: 58.55
Rank: 1,392
1962 - Present
HPI: 58.55
Rank: 1,393
1756 - 1792
HPI: 58.54
Rank: 1,394
1719 - 1790
HPI: 58.54
Rank: 1,395
1767 - 1852
HPI: 58.54
Rank: 1,396
1928 - 2021
HPI: 58.54
Rank: 1,397
1873 - 1951
HPI: 58.52
Rank: 1,398
1914 - 1986
HPI: 58.51
Rank: 1,399
1812 - 1883
HPI: 58.51
Rank: 1,400
Among composers born in Germany, Joseph Martin Kraus ranks 52. Before him are Georg Böhm (1661), Samuel Scheidt (1587), Alfred Einstein (1880), Karl Richter (1926), Carl Loewe (1796), and Johann Kuhnau (1660). After him are Friedrich von Flotow (1812), Johann Schein (1586), Carl Heinrich Graun (1704), Klaus Schulze (1947), Ferdinand Ries (1784), and Hans Werner Henze (1926).
1661 - 1733
HPI: 59.69
Rank: 46
1587 - 1654
HPI: 59.14
Rank: 47
1880 - 1952
HPI: 59.03
Rank: 48
1926 - 1981
HPI: 58.82
Rank: 49
1796 - 1869
HPI: 58.77
Rank: 50
1660 - 1722
HPI: 58.58
Rank: 51
1756 - 1792
HPI: 58.54
Rank: 52
1812 - 1883
HPI: 58.51
Rank: 53
1586 - 1630
HPI: 58.35
Rank: 54
1704 - 1759
HPI: 58.09
Rank: 55
1947 - 2022
HPI: 58.07
Rank: 56
1784 - 1838
HPI: 57.84
Rank: 57
1926 - 2012
HPI: 57.76
Rank: 58