1766 - 1846
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, Joseph Weigl ranks 923 out of 1,216. Before 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.
1974 - Present
HPI: 50.37
Rank: 917
1666 - 1729
HPI: 50.35
Rank: 918
1621 - 1677
HPI: 50.34
Rank: 919
1738 - 1793
HPI: 50.32
Rank: 920
1884 - 1982
HPI: 50.31
Rank: 921
1941 - 2014
HPI: 50.30
Rank: 922
1766 - 1846
HPI: 50.28
Rank: 923
1714 - 1785
HPI: 50.26
Rank: 924
1859 - 1939
HPI: 50.25
Rank: 925
1902 - 1963
HPI: 50.23
Rank: 926
1831 - 1877
HPI: 50.23
Rank: 927
1764 - 1837
HPI: 50.22
Rank: 928
1821 - 1885
HPI: 50.22
Rank: 929
Among people born in 1766, Joseph Weigl ranks 26. Before 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 20. Before 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.
1766 - 1822
HPI: 53.01
Rank: 20
1766 - 1842
HPI: 52.70
Rank: 21
1766 - 1854
HPI: 52.50
Rank: 22
1766 - 1833
HPI: 52.19
Rank: 23
1766 - 1815
HPI: 51.68
Rank: 24
1766 - 1832
HPI: 51.49
Rank: 25
1766 - 1846
HPI: 50.28
Rank: 26
1766 - 1828
HPI: 49.72
Rank: 27
1766 - 1839
HPI: 47.74
Rank: 28
1766 - 1815
HPI: 47.31
Rank: 29
1766 - 1826
HPI: 47.02
Rank: 30
1766 - 1852
HPI: 46.99
Rank: 31
1766 - 1849
HPI: 46.10
Rank: 32
1765 - 1846
HPI: 53.66
Rank: 14
1782 - 1846
HPI: 52.83
Rank: 15
1770 - 1846
HPI: 52.40
Rank: 16
1825 - 1846
HPI: 52.04
Rank: 17
1773 - 1846
HPI: 51.19
Rank: 18
1784 - 1846
HPI: 50.64
Rank: 19
1766 - 1846
HPI: 50.28
Rank: 20
1778 - 1846
HPI: 49.79
Rank: 21
1774 - 1846
HPI: 49.66
Rank: 22
1797 - 1846
HPI: 49.63
Rank: 23
1774 - 1846
HPI: 47.26
Rank: 24
1778 - 1846
HPI: 46.75
Rank: 25
1793 - 1846
HPI: 44.46
Rank: 26
Among people born in Austria, Joseph Weigl ranks 653 out of 1,237. Before 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).
1886 - 1954
HPI: 50.34
Rank: 647
1738 - 1793
HPI: 50.32
Rank: 648
1833 - 1907
HPI: 50.31
Rank: 649
1899 - 1956
HPI: 50.31
Rank: 650
1898 - 1977
HPI: 50.30
Rank: 651
1835 - 1921
HPI: 50.29
Rank: 652
1766 - 1846
HPI: 50.28
Rank: 653
1902 - 1986
HPI: 50.27
Rank: 654
1967 - Present
HPI: 50.25
Rank: 655
1831 - 1877
HPI: 50.23
Rank: 656
1711 - 1783
HPI: 50.21
Rank: 657
1929 - 2000
HPI: 50.19
Rank: 658
1815 - 1894
HPI: 50.17
Rank: 659
Among composers born in Austria, Joseph Weigl ranks 48. Before 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).
1842 - 1899
HPI: 52.85
Rank: 42
1778 - 1858
HPI: 52.65
Rank: 43
1882 - 1964
HPI: 52.52
Rank: 44
1860 - 1945
HPI: 51.31
Rank: 45
1887 - 1964
HPI: 50.61
Rank: 46
1738 - 1793
HPI: 50.32
Rank: 47
1766 - 1846
HPI: 50.28
Rank: 48
1831 - 1877
HPI: 50.23
Rank: 49
1711 - 1783
HPI: 50.21
Rank: 50
1857 - 1941
HPI: 49.97
Rank: 51
1828 - 1893
HPI: 49.91
Rank: 52
1885 - 1974
HPI: 49.60
Rank: 53
1872 - 1948
HPI: 48.85
Rank: 54