COMPOSER

Adolf von Henselt

1814 - 1889

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Georg Martin Adolf von Henselt (9 May 1814 – 10 October 1889) was a German composer and virtuoso pianist. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Adolf von Henselt is the 477th most popular composer (up from 625th in 2019), the 1,918th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,450th in 2019) and the 76th most popular German Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Adolf von Henselt ranks 477 out of 1,451. Before him are Étienne Méhul, Johann Gottfried Walther, Alfredo Catalani, Robert Stolz, Rodion Shchedrin, and Vítězslav Novák. After him are Oscar Straus, Paolo Tosti, Vicente Martín y Soler, Florent Schmitt, Fikret Amirov, and Claudio Merulo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1814, Adolf von Henselt ranks 25. Before him are Heinrich Geißler, Duchess Helene of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Juan Prim, 1st Count of Reus, Sheridan Le Fanu, Pierre-Jules Hetzel, and Tatya Tope. After him are Rasoherina, Ernst Curtius, Josif Pančić, Eduard Zeller, Kamehameha III, and Alexander Cunningham. Among people deceased in 1889, Adolf von Henselt ranks 29. Before him are Robert Browning, Giovanni Bottesini, Jules Dupré, Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges, Gaston Planté, and Şevkefza Kadın. After him are Johann Jakob von Tschudi, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Ignacy Domeyko, Émile Augier, Viktor Bunyakovsky, and Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Adolf von Henselt ranks 1,918 out of 7,253. Before him are Max Immelmann (1890), Hugo Schuchardt (1842), Johann Ernst III, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (1664), Rachel Félix (1821), Bernd Hölzenbein (1946), and Henry V, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1489). After him are Adolf Frederick I, Duke of Mecklenburg (1588), Judith of Swabia (1054), Ulrich, Duke of Mecklenburg (1527), Ralf Hütter (1946), Karl Friedrich Mohr (1806), and Princess Louise Amelie of Baden (1811).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Adolf von Henselt ranks 76. Before him are Simon Mayr (1763), Alfred Einstein (1880), Heinrich Marschner (1795), Joseph Martin Kraus (1756), Friedrich von Flotow (1812), and Johann Gottfried Walther (1684). After him are Johann Crüger (1598), Fredrik Pacius (1809), Johann Ludwig Bach (1677), Reinhard Keiser (1674), Friedrich Wieck (1785), and Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach (1759).

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