COMPOSER

Julius Rietz

1812 - 1877

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August Wilhelm Julius Rietz (28 December 1812 – 12 September 1877) was a German composer, conductor, cellist, and teacher. His students included Woldemar Bargiel, Salomon Jadassohn, Arthur O'Leary, and (by far the most celebrated) Sir Arthur Sullivan. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Julius Rietz has received more than 38,509 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Julius Rietz is the 1,087th most popular composer (down from 1,032nd in 2019), the 4,307th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,780th in 2019) and the 162nd most popular German Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Julius Rietz ranks 1,087 out of 1,451Before him are Henri Pousseur, Toivo Kuula, Semen Hulak-Artemovsky, Carter Burwell, Johann Nicolaus Bach, and Raymond Scott. After him are Jaromír Weinberger, Heinrich Schenker, Shivkumar Sharma, Emil Hartmann, František Škroup, and Karl Klindworth.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1812, Julius Rietz ranks 60Before him are Juraj Dobrila, Franz Felix Adalbert Kuhn, Johanne Luise Heiberg, Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning, Izmail Sreznevsky, and Francisco Coll Guitart. After him are Carl Christoffer Georg Andræ, Buenaventura Báez, Samo Chalupka, Knud Knudsen, Auguste Duméril, and Bertalan Szemere. Among people deceased in 1877, Julius Rietz ranks 52Before him are Fernán Caballero, Duke Eugen of Württemberg, Jung Bahadur Rana, Georg Adolf Erman, Janko Matúška, and Alexander Bain. After him are Robert Swinhoe, Juan Bautista Gill, Johann Carl Fuhlrott, Alexander Brullov, Ramón Cabrera, 1st Duke of Maestrazgo, and Rómulo Díaz de la Vega.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Julius Rietz ranks 4,307 out of 7,253Before him are Gustav Mie (1868), Ernst Zündel (1939), Princess Leopoldine of Baden (1837), Josef Gauchel (1916), Brigitte Horney (1911), and Eberhard Diepgen (1941). After him are Hermann Wilhelm Vogel (1834), Heinz Kubsch (1930), Ernst Hartwig (1851), Karl Ferdinand Sohn (1805), Johann Beckmann (1739), and Felix Jacoby (1876).

Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Julius Rietz ranks 162Before him are Otto Jahn (1813), Gustav Lange (1830), Hugo Distler (1908), Frederick Loewe (1901), Jean Gilbert (1879), and Johann Nicolaus Bach (1669). After him are Karl Klindworth (1830), Klaus Badelt (1967), Robert Franz (1815), Ludwig Abeille (1761), Boris Papandopulo (1906), and Walter Braunfels (1882).