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Joseph Martin Kraus

1756 - 1792

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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, Holy Roman Empire. 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 119,336 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Martin Kraus is the 447th most popular composer (down from 362nd in 2019), the 1,774th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,394th in 2019) and the 67th most popular German Composer.

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  • 57.56

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.42

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.96

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Joseph Martin Kraus ranks 447 out of 1,451. Before him are Paolo Tosti, Robert Stolz, Friedrich von Flotow, Ferdinand Hiller, Miki Matsubara, and Grock. After him are Pēteris Vasks, Johann Ludwig Bach, Leroy Anderson, Pierre de la Rue, Moritz Moszkowski, and Bernhard Crusell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1756, Joseph Martin Kraus ranks 13. Before him are Aaron Burr, Bernard Germain de Lacépède, Ernst Chladni, Jean-Baptiste Carrier, Louis Henri, Prince of Condé, and Frederick Francis I, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. After him are Jacques-Nicolas Billaud-Varenne, Wojciech Żywny, Guillaume-Antoine Olivier, Duke Louis of Württemberg, Thomas Rowlandson, and Federico Gravina. Among people deceased in 1792, Joseph Martin Kraus ranks 15. Before him are John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, Jacques Cazotte, Nguyễn Huệ, Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Tiradentes, and Robert Adam. After him are John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz, Legall de Kermeur, Denis Fonvizin, Antoine Louis, and George Mason.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Joseph Martin Kraus ranks 1,774 out of 7,253. Before him are Jürgen Kohler (1965), Max Joseph von Pettenkofer (1818), Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg (1886), Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1808), Christoph Probst (1919), and Duchess Luise of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1722). After him are Martin Walser (1927), Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1835), Werner Jaeger (1888), Basil Valentine (1394), Johann Ludwig Bach (1677), and Louis VI, Elector Palatine (1539).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Joseph Martin Kraus ranks 67. Before him are Ferdinand Ries (1784), Princess Philippine Charlotte of Prussia (1716), Hans Werner Henze (1926), Heinrich Marschner (1795), Friedrich von Flotow (1812), and Ferdinand Hiller (1811). After him are Johann Ludwig Bach (1677), Christoph Graupner (1683), Johann Gottfried Walther (1684), Johann Christoph Pepusch (1667), Albert Lortzing (1801), and Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach (1759).

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