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Anton Walter

1752 - 1826

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Gabriel Anton Walter (5 February 1752 – 11 April 1826) was a builder of pianos. The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians describes him as "the most famous Viennese piano maker of his time". Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert all owned and played on Walter's pianos. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Anton Walter is the 660th most popular composer (up from 712th in 2019), the 2,662nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,845th in 2019) and the 102nd most popular German Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Anton Walter ranks 660 out of 1,451. Before him are Herms Niel, François Sudre, Heinz Holliger, Ildebrando Pizzetti, Boris Blacher, and Andrzej Panufnik. After him are Agustín Lara, Charles Lecocq, Georg Joseph Vogler, Stevan Mokranjac, Paul Wranitzky, and Jean-François Dandrieu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1752, Anton Walter ranks 21. Before him are Adolph Freiherr Knigge, Nguyễn Huệ, John Nash, Sébastien Érard, Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli, and Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre. After him are Betsy Ross, Torii Kiyonaga, Alexander Tormasov, Andrey Razumovsky, François Isaac de Rivaz, and Johann Friedrich Reichardt. Among people deceased in 1826, Anton Walter ranks 33. Before him are François-Joseph Talma, Johann Peter Hebel, Christian Kramp, Friedrich Krupp, John Flaxman, and Claire Lacombe. After him are Jean Lafitte, Kondraty Ryleyev, Georg Franz Hoffmann, Pavel Pestel, Jacob Hübner, and Nikolay Rumyantsev.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Anton Walter ranks 2,663 out of 7,253. Before him are George II, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1789), Hennes Weisweiler (1919), Gundula Janowitz (1937), Mats Hummels (1988), Walter Gotell (1924), and Philippine Welser (1527). After him are Peter Lely (1618), Princess Christine of Hesse-Rotenburg (1717), Albert II, Duke of Saxony (1250), Grand Duchess Maria Kirillovna of Russia (1907), Christian Otto Mohr (1835), and Ernest Casimir I, Count of Nassau-Dietz (1573).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Anton Walter ranks 102. Before him are Gershon Kingsley (1922), Johann Ludwig Krebs (1713), Johann Caspar Kerll (1627), Johann Friedrich Agricola (1720), Hermann Levi (1839), and Herms Niel (1888). After him are Georg Joseph Vogler (1749), Curt Sachs (1881), Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow (1663), Tielman Susato (1500), Norbert Burgmüller (1810), and Paul Ben-Haim (1897).

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