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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, he served at courts in Breslau, Rome, and Dresden, where he died. Until recently, he was thought to have been born in 1686, but recent evidence suggests that he was in fact born the following year.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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sylvius Leopold Weiss has received more than 131,976 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Sylvius Leopold Weiss is the 301st most popular composer (up from 337th in 2019), the 245th most popular biography from Poland (up from 271st in 2019) and the 7th most popular Polish Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Sylvius Leopold Weiss ranks 301 out of 1,216. Before him are Gustave Charpentier, Georges Auric, Christian Gottlob Neefe, Rodolphe Kreutzer, Gustav Leonhardt, and Saverio Mercadante. After him are Georg Böhm, Andrea Luchesi, Joseph Lanner, Reynaldo Hahn, André Campra, and Miklós Rózsa.

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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, Francesco Geminiani, Giambattista Pittoni, and Balthasar Neumann. After him are Johann Georg Pisendel, Johann Heinrich Schulze, Anton Ulrich, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, 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, Vasily Tatishchev, Apostolo Zeno, Ludovico Antonio Muratori, Giuseppe Sammartini, and Pietro Filippo Scarlatti.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Sylvius Leopold Weiss ranks 245 out of 1,454. Before him are Władysław I Herman (1043), Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1848), Dieter Wisliceny (1911), Akiba Rubinstein (1880), Miguel Najdorf (1910), and Kurt Tank (1898). After him are Henryk Szeryng (1918), Victor Klemperer (1881), Anna von Schweidnitz (1339), Aleksander Kwaśniewski (1954), Kurt Masur (1927), and Karl Ludwig Hencke (1793).

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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), Moritz Moszkowski (1854), and Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881). After him are Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska (1834), Mieczysław Weinberg (1919), Martin Agricola (1486), Józef Elsner (1769), Maria Szymanowska (1789), and Grażyna Bacewicz (1909).

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