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Sylvius Leopold Weiss

1687 - 1750

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Sylvius Leopold Weiss (12 October 1687 – 16 October 1750) was a German composer and lutenist. Born in Grottkau near Breslau, the son of Johann Jacob Weiss, also a lutenist, Weiss was one of the most important and most prolific composers of lute music in history and one of the best-known and most technically accomplished lutenists of his day. In later life, Weiss became a friend of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach and met J.S. Bach through him. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sylvius Leopold Weiss has received more than 140,746 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Sylvius Leopold Weiss is the 324th most popular composer (down from 301st in 2019), the 279th most popular biography from Poland (down from 245th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Polish Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Sylvius Leopold Weiss ranks 324 out of 1,451. Before him are Vincent d'Indy, Giovanni Bononcini, Paul Abraham, Saverio Mercadante, Pierre De Geyter, and Charles Ives. After him are Johann Adam Reincken, Ignaz Pleyel, John Dunstaple, Gustav Leonhardt, Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, and Gustave Charpentier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1687, Sylvius Leopold Weiss ranks 6. Before him are Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, John William Friso, Prince of Orange, Balthasar Neumann, Francesco Geminiani, and Giambattista Pittoni. After him are Johann Georg Pisendel, Anton Ulrich, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Johann Heinrich Schulze, Nicolaus I Bernoulli, Robert Simson, and William Stukeley. Among people deceased in 1750, Sylvius Leopold Weiss ranks 6. Before him are Johann Sebastian Bach, Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, John V of Portugal, Maurice de Saxe, and Emperor Sakuramachi. After him are Rachel Ruysch, Giuseppe Sammartini, Vasily Tatishchev, Pietro Filippo Scarlatti, Ludovico Antonio Muratori, and Apostolo Zeno.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Sylvius Leopold Weiss ranks 279 out of 1,694. Before him are Casimir II the Just (1138), Edward Gierek (1913), Hermann Schwarz (1843), Johannes Zukertort (1842), Leszek the White (1186), and Ryszard Kaczorowski (1919). After him are Kazimierz Kuratowski (1896), Lilli Palmer (1914), Dieter Wisliceny (1911), Stanisława Walasiewicz (1911), Henry the Bearded (1163), and Moïse Kisling (1891).

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Among COMPOSERS In Poland

Among composers born in Poland, Sylvius Leopold Weiss ranks 7. Before him are Frédéric Chopin (1810), Krzysztof Penderecki (1933), Witold Lutosławski (1913), Henryk Górecki (1933), Martin Agricola (1486), and Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881). After him are Viktor Ullmann (1898), Grażyna Bacewicz (1909), Mieczysław Weinberg (1919), Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska (1834), Maria Szymanowska (1789), and Józef Elsner (1769).

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