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Franz Abt

1819 - 1885

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Franz Wilhelm Abt (22 December 1819 – 31 March 1885) was a German composer and choral conductor. He composed roughly 3,000 individual works mostly in the area of vocal music. Several of his songs were at one time universally sung, and have obtained a more or less permanent place in the popular repertory. Abt was a renowned choral conductor, and he spent much of the last three decades of his life working as a guest conductor with choirs throughout Europe and in the United States. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Franz Abt is the 607th most popular composer (down from 496th in 2019), the 2,407th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,933rd in 2019) and the 95th most popular German Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Franz Abt ranks 607 out of 1,451. Before him are Helmut Lachenmann, Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini, Ernest Guiraud, Hans Christian Lumbye, Pietro Nardini, and Aleksandra Pakhmutova. After him are Manuel Ponce, Alexander Gretchaninov, František Brixi, Jean-Joseph de Mondonville, Eduardo di Capua, and Antoine François Marmontel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1819, Franz Abt ranks 41. Before him are Christopher Latham Sholes, Felice Orsini, William A. Wheeler, Roger Fenton, Wilhelm Marr, and Thomas A. Hendricks. After him are Eunice Newton Foote, Estanislao Figueras, Alfred Escher, Clément Juglar, Milan Obrenović II, Prince of Serbia, and Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann. Among people deceased in 1885, Franz Abt ranks 34. Before him are Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, Maximilian Maria, 7th Prince of Thurn and Taxis, Edwin Freiherr von Manteuffel, Thomas A. Hendricks, George B. McClellan, and Pierre Edmond Boissier. After him are Karamchand Gandhi, Nikolai Severtzov, Nikolay Danilevsky, Henri Dupuy de Lôme, Henri Tresca, and Charles Rogier.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Franz Abt ranks 2,408 out of 7,253. Before him are Prince Albert of Prussia (1837), Conrad Böcker (1870), Wolfgang Reitherman (1909), Duchess Elisabeth Sophie of Mecklenburg (1613), John Casimir of the Palatinate-Simmern (1543), and Guido Buchwald (1961). After him are Jens Böhrnsen (1949), Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1528), Joseph Weizenbaum (1923), Joseph Dietzgen (1828), Otto Kuntze (1843), and Rahel Varnhagen (1771).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Franz Abt ranks 95. Before him are Johann Nikolaus Forkel (1749), Aloysia Weber (1760), Johann Christoph Pepusch (1667), Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877), Johann Andreas Stein (1728), and Helmut Lachenmann (1935). After him are Gershon Kingsley (1922), Johann Ludwig Krebs (1713), Johann Caspar Kerll (1627), Johann Friedrich Agricola (1720), Hermann Levi (1839), and Herms Niel (1888).

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