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Ferdinand David

1810 - 1873

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Ferdinand Ernst Victor Carl David (German: [ˈdaːvɪt]; 19 June 1810 – 18 July 1873) was a German virtuoso violinist, composer and conductor. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ferdinand David is the 730th most popular composer (down from 676th in 2019), the 2,941st most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,682nd in 2019) and the 111th most popular German Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Ferdinand David ranks 730 out of 1,451. Before him are Mieczysław Karłowicz, Bartolomeo Tromboncino, Otakar Ševčík, Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, Heinrich Sutermeister, and Antonio Rosetti. After him are Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, Andreas Werckmeister, John Stanley, Lodovico Grossi da Viadana, Emil von Reznicek, and Gabriel Yared.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1810, Ferdinand David ranks 49. Before him are Christen Købke, Alexandre Calame, Norbert Burgmüller, Stanko Vraz, Louise Colet, and Margaret Fuller. After him are Alexandre Herculano, Maurice de Guérin, Francis de Laporte de Castelnau, Johann Löwenthal, Giovanni Lanza, and Eliza McCardle Johnson. Among people deceased in 1873, Ferdinand David ranks 41. Before him are Wilhelm Marstrand, Tekle Giyorgis II, Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Prince August, Duke of Dalarna, Charles II, Duke of Brunswick, and Auguste von Harrach. After him are Hermann Hankel, Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann, Caterina Scarpellini, Malek Jahan Khanom, Bénédict Morel, and Spyridon Trikoupis.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ferdinand David ranks 2,943 out of 7,253. Before him are Christian II, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg (1599), Guido Westerwelle (1961), Johann Lukas Schönlein (1793), Sebastian Koch (1962), Marie of Baden-Sponheim (1507), and Stefan Effenberg (1968). After him are Franz Pforr (1788), Karl Friedrich Burdach (1776), Hermann Hankel (1839), Otto Rühle (1874), Erich Ribbeck (1937), and Alexander, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (1462).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Ferdinand David ranks 111. Before him are Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow (1663), Tielman Susato (1500), Norbert Burgmüller (1810), Paul Ben-Haim (1897), Robert Volkmann (1815), and Nannette Streicher (1769). After him are Andreas Werckmeister (1645), Aribert Reimann (1936), Matthias Weckmann (1619), Franz Lachner (1803), Johann Rosenmüller (1619), and Johann Baptist Cramer (1771).

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