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Carl Friedrich Abel

1723 - 1787

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Carl Friedrich Abel (22 December 1723: 3  – 20 June 1787) was a German composer of the Classical era. He was a renowned player of the viola da gamba, and produced significant compositions for that instrument. He was director of music at the Dresden court from 1743, and moved to London in 1759, becoming chamber-musician to Queen Charlotte in 1764. He founded a subscription concert series there with Johann Christian Bach. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Carl Friedrich Abel is the 248th most popular composer (up from 264th in 2019), the 915th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,053rd in 2019) and the 35th most popular German Composer.

Carl Friedrich Abel was a German composer and violinist. He was most famous for his violin concertos.

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Among composers, Carl Friedrich Abel ranks 248 out of 1,451. Before him are Otto Nicolai, Pietro Locatelli, Alessandro Marcello, Jacques Arcadelt, Gaspare Spontini, and Jerry Goldsmith. After him are Alexander von Zemlinsky, Maurizio Pollini, Ambroise Thomas, Cécile Chaminade, Eugen d'Albert, and Francis Lai.

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Among people born in 1723, Carl Friedrich Abel ranks 6. Before him are Adam Smith, Baron d'Holbach, Frederick V of Denmark, Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, and Joshua Reynolds. After him are Mathurin Jacques Brisson, Jean-François Marmontel, Princess Caroline Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt, Adam Ferguson, Prithvi Narayan Shah, and Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg. Among people deceased in 1787, Carl Friedrich Abel ranks 5. Before him are Christoph Willibald Gluck, Leopold Mozart, Roger Joseph Boscovich, and Alphonsus Liguori. After him are Pompeo Batoni, Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg, Louise of France, Şahin Giray, Johann Karl August Musäus, William Watson, and Princess Carolina of Orange-Nassau.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Friedrich Abel ranks 915 out of 7,253. Before him are Hugo Junkers (1859), Elizabeth of Carinthia, Queen of Germany (1262), John George I, Elector of Saxony (1585), Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche (1846), Isdal Woman (1940), and Luise Rainer (1910). After him are Elizabeth Alexeievna (1779), Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters (1813), Kurt Eisner (1867), Karlheinz Böhm (1928), Joseph Pilates (1883), and Emanuel Schikaneder (1751).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Carl Friedrich Abel ranks 35. Before him are Johann Adolph Hasse (1699), Michael Praetorius (1571), Johann Ambrosius Bach (1645), Johann Joachim Quantz (1697), Carl Reinecke (1824), and Engelbert Humperdinck (1854). After him are Carl Stamitz (1745), Duchess Maria Antonia of Bavaria (1724), Johann Christoph Bach (1671), Johann Christoph Bach (1642), Friedrich Kuhlau (1786), and Hanns Eisler (1898).

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