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Wolfgang Schmieder

1901 - 1990

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Wolfgang Schmieder (May 29, 1901 – November 8, 1990) was a German music librarian and musicologist. Schmieder was born in Bromberg (now Bydgoszcz, Poland). In 1950, he published the BWV, or Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis ("Bach Works Catalogue"), a catalog of musical works by Johann Sebastian Bach. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wolfgang Schmieder has received more than 43,208 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Wolfgang Schmieder is the 709th most popular composer (down from 656th in 2019), the 605th most popular biography from Poland (down from 525th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular Polish Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Wolfgang Schmieder ranks 709 out of 1,451. Before him are Karol Lipiński, Antonio Rosetti, Franz Lachner, Aloysia Weber, Edison Denisov, and Armando Trovajoli. After him are Michel Corrette, Vatroslav Lisinski, Anton Walter, Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini, Josef Tal, and Amy Beach.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Wolfgang Schmieder ranks 129. Before him are August Schmidhuber, Claude Autant-Lara, Ho Feng-Shan, Mikhail Romm, Salchak Toka, and Lee Hoi-chuen. After him are Joe Davis, Jean Guitton, Kjeld Abell, Prince Christoph of Hesse, Antal Szerb, and Stanisław Mikołajczyk. Among people deceased in 1990, Wolfgang Schmieder ranks 106. Before him are Paul Tortelier, Stefano Casiraghi, Berta Karlik, Xavier Cugat, Rashad Khalifa, and Patriarch Pimen I of Moscow. After him are Martin Ritt, Del Shannon, Matvey Blanter, Irene Dunne, Prince Andrew of Yugoslavia, and Naoto Tajima.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Wolfgang Schmieder ranks 605 out of 1,694. Before him are Hans Hellmut Kirst (1914), Bogislaw V, Duke of Pomerania (1318), Michael O. Rabin (1931), Wolfgang Weber (1944), Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Castro (1926), and Wojciech Has (1925). After him are Josef Tal (1910), Franciszek Macharski (1927), Józef Maria Bocheński (1902), Otto Lasch (1893), Michał Sopoćko (1888), and Józef Wybicki (1747).

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Among COMPOSERS In Poland

Among composers born in Poland, Wolfgang Schmieder ranks 23. Before him are Zbigniew Preisner (1955), Johann Gottlieb Goldberg (1727), Franz Waxman (1906), Johann Schobert (1720), Krzysztof Komeda (1931), and Karol Lipiński (1790). After him are Josef Tal (1910), Andrzej Panufnik (1914), Mykhailo Verbytskyi (1815), Carl Schuricht (1880), Arnold Mendelssohn (1855), and Józef Kozłowski (1757).

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