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Carl Heinrich Graun

1704 - 1759

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Carl Heinrich Graun (7 May 1704 – 8 August 1759) was a German composer and tenor. Along with Johann Adolph Hasse, he is considered to be the most important German composer of Italian opera of his time. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Carl Heinrich Graun is the 399th most popular composer (down from 377th in 2019), the 1,550th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,535th in 2019) and the 55th most popular German Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Carl Heinrich Graun ranks 399 out of 1,451. Before him are Karl Richter, Henri Dutilleux, Hans Pfitzner, Viktor Ullmann, Mauricio Kagel, and Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco. After him are Charles Auguste de Bériot, Ernst Krenek, Józef Elsner, Eugen Doga, Karl Goldmark, and Peter Cornelius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1704, Carl Heinrich Graun ranks 7. Before him are Gabriel Cramer, Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Tahmasp II, Margravine Johanna of Baden-Baden, Countess Caroline of Nassau-Saarbrücken, and Anne Christine of Sulzbach, Princess of Piedmont. After him are John Kay, Hans Hermann von Katte, Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, Johann Andreas Segner, Louis de Jaucourt, and Carlos Seixas. Among people deceased in 1759, Carl Heinrich Graun ranks 8. Before him are Louise Élisabeth of France, Ferdinand VI of Spain, Pierre Louis Maupertuis, Louise Henriette de Bourbon, Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, and Prince Karl Anton August of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck. After him are Anton Wilhelm Amo, Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay, Sedjefakare, James Wolfe, and Nicolaus I Bernoulli.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Heinrich Graun ranks 1,550 out of 7,253. Before him are Princess Charlotte of Prussia (1831), Rudolf Diels (1900), William I, Duke of Bavaria (1330), Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg (1875), Theodor Escherich (1857), and Willi Herold (1925). After him are Rudolf Caracciola (1901), Amschel Mayer Rothschild (1773), Henry III, Margrave of Meissen (1218), Alexander von Kluck (1846), Ernst-Robert Grawitz (1899), and Albert of Saxony (1316).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Carl Heinrich Graun ranks 55. Before him are Klaus Schulze (1947), Samuel Scheidt (1587), Hans Werner Henze (1926), Hans Leo Hassler (1564), Christian Gottlob Neefe (1748), and Karl Richter (1926). After him are Peter Cornelius (1824), Nicolaus Bruhns (1665), Ferdinand Hiller (1811), Wolfgang Wagner (1919), Hermann Abendroth (1883), and Carl Friedrich Zelter (1758).

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