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Cornelius Gurlitt

1820 - 1901

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Gustav Cornelius Gurlitt (10 February 1820 – 17 June 1901) was a German composer. He was a classmate of Carl Reinecke, whose father was head of the Leipzig Conservatory. Gurlitt studied with Reinecke's father for six years. His first public appearance at the age of seventeen was well received, and he decided to go to Copenhagen to continue his studies. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Cornelius Gurlitt is the 894th most popular composer (down from 805th in 2019), the 3,523rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,188th in 2019) and the 133rd most popular German Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Cornelius Gurlitt ranks 894 out of 1,451. Before him are Vítězslava Kaprálová, Armando Trovajoli, Silvestre Revueltas, Yuri Antonov, Robert Planquette, and Marvin Hamlisch. After him are Meredith Monk, Jaromír Weinberger, André Gedalge, Édouard Colonne, Werner Egk, and Helmut Walcha.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1820, Cornelius Gurlitt ranks 46. Before him are Maria Severa Onofriana, Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Thuwaini bin Said, Alexandre-Émile Béguyer de Chancourtois, Gustave Le Gray, and Ghevont Alishan. After him are Pōmare III, Josef Mánes, Mkrtich Khrimian, Fanny Crosby, Concepción Arenal, and Begum Hazrat Mahal. Among people deceased in 1901, Cornelius Gurlitt ranks 59. Before him are Alfred Tysoe, Princess Louise of Prussia, Aleksander Gierymski, Wojciech Gerson, Prince Hermann of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, and Ghevont Alishan. After him are Prince Henri of Orléans, Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, Herman Grimm, Václav Brožík, Émile Fisseux, and Víctor Balaguer i Cirera.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Cornelius Gurlitt ranks 3,525 out of 7,253. Before him are Eugen Langen (1833), Gottfried Heinrich Bach (1724), Rainer Woelki (1956), Louis IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Marburg (1537), Rüdiger Safranski (1945), and Anita Augspurg (1857). After him are Johann Karl Rodbertus (1805), Eduard Friedrich Poeppig (1798), Kurt von der Chevallerie (1891), Karl Muck (1859), Heinrich Tessenow (1876), and Erich Pommer (1889).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Cornelius Gurlitt ranks 133. Before him are Karl Amadeus Hartmann (1905), Paul Lincke (1866), Vincent Lübeck (1654), Julius Reubke (1834), Daniel Gottlob Türk (1750), and Johann Jacob Bach (1682). After him are Werner Egk (1901), Helmut Walcha (1907), Paul Dessau (1894), Heinrich Albert (1604), Franz Anton Hoffmeister (1754), and Emil von Sauer (1862).

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