COMPOSER

Joseph Weigl

1766 - 1846

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Joseph Weigl (28 March 1766 – 3 February 1846) was an Austrian composer and conductor, born in Eisenstadt, Hungary, Austrian Empire. The son of Joseph Franz Weigl (1740–1820), the principal cellist in the orchestra of the Esterházy family, he studied music under Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Weigl has received more than 40,895 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Weigl is the 772nd most popular composer (up from 922nd in 2019), the 610th most popular biography from Austria (up from 649th in 2019) and the 45th most popular Austrian Composer.

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.91

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.39

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Joseph Weigl ranks 772 out of 1,451. Before him are Temistocle Solera, Ludwig Senfl, Oskar Nedbal, Heinrich Scheidemann, Egidio Duni, and Tyagaraja. After him are Claudin de Sermisy, Gaetano Pugnani, Felip Pedrell, George Onslow, Andrzej Panufnik, and Johann Gottlieb Graun.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1766, Joseph Weigl ranks 24. Before him are Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, François-Xavier Fabre, Samuel Wilson, Robert Darwin, Samuel Frederick Gray, and Emmanuel, comte de Las Cases. After him are John Leslie, Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel, Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, Joseph Franz von Jacquin, Jacob Perkins, and Wilhelm Hisinger. Among people deceased in 1846, Joseph Weigl ranks 17. Before him are Otto von Kotzebue, Princess Maria Anna of Hesse-Homburg, Jean-Gaspard Deburau, Domenico Dragonetti, Joseph Leopold Eybler, and Maria Severa Onofriana. After him are Étienne Pivert de Senancour, Esaias Tegnér, Bagyidaw, Alexander Chavchavadze, Carlo Gaetano Gaisruck, and Grand Duchess Maria Mikhailovna of Russia.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Joseph Weigl ranks 610 out of 1,424. Before him are Carl Moll (1861), Erich Fried (1921), Rudolf Vytlačil (1912), Archduchess Margaret of Austria (1567), Inge Morath (1923), and William Berger (1928). After him are Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg (1899), Augustín Malár (1894), Wilhelm Kienzl (1857), Harald Ertl (1948), Theodor Innitzer (1875), and Ernst Stojaspal (1925).

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Among COMPOSERS In Austria

Among composers born in Austria, Joseph Weigl ranks 45. Before him are Carl Zeller (1842), Karl Michael Ziehrer (1843), Johann Strauss III (1866), Sigismund von Neukomm (1778), Carl Millöcker (1842), and Hans Rott (1858). After him are Wilhelm Kienzl (1857), Emil von Reznicek (1860), Friedrich Cerha (1926), Ernst Toch (1887), Leopold Hofmann (1738), and Joseph Hellmesberger Sr. (1828).

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