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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 37,459 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Weigl is the 923rd most popular composer (down from 782nd in 2019), the 653rd most popular biography from Austria (down from 583rd in 2019) and the 48th most popular Austrian Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Joseph Weigl ranks 923 out of 1,216Before him are Ramin Djawadi, Attilio Ariosti, Matthew Locke, Leopold Hofmann, Juhan Aavik, and Christopher Hogwood. After him are Gottfried August Homilius, August Enna, Vissarion Shebalin, Johann von Herbeck, Valentino Fioravanti, and Friedrich Kiel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1766, Joseph Weigl ranks 26Before him are Slimane of Morocco, Emmanuel, comte de Las Cases, Samuel Wilson, Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel, Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, and John Leslie. After him are Samuel Frederick Gray, Joseph Franz von Jacquin, Benjamin Smith Barton, John Farey Sr., Wilhelm Hisinger, and William Townsend Aiton. Among people deceased in 1846, Joseph Weigl ranks 20Before him are Joseph Leopold Eybler, Esaias Tegnér, Étienne Pivert de Senancour, Grand Duchess Maria Mikhailovna of Russia, Giuseppe Acerbi, and Bagyidaw. After him are Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent, Princess Amalie of Hesse-Homburg, Wilhelm Küchelbecker, W. J. Coffee, Charles Alexandre Lesueur, and Jan Frans Willems.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Joseph Weigl ranks 653 out of 1,237Before him are Franz Josef Popp (1886), Leopold Hofmann (1738), Maurice Loewy (1833), Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg (1899), Eugen Wüster (1898), and Franz Defregger (1835). After him are Herma Szabo (1902), Thomas Muster (1967), Johann von Herbeck (1831), Ignaz Holzbauer (1711), Walter Berry (1929), and Karl von Blaas (1815).

Among COMPOSERS In Austria

Among composers born in Austria, Joseph Weigl ranks 48Before him are Carl Millöcker (1842), Sigismund von Neukomm (1778), Joseph Marx (1882), Emil von Reznicek (1860), Ernst Toch (1887), and Leopold Hofmann (1738). After him are Johann von Herbeck (1831), Ignaz Holzbauer (1711), Wilhelm Kienzl (1857), Joseph Hellmesberger Sr. (1828), Egon Wellesz (1885), and Siegmund von Hausegger (1872).