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Georg Benda

1722 - 1795

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Georg Anton Benda (Czech: Jiří Antonín Benda; 30 June 1722 – 6 November 1795) was a Bohemian composer, violinist and Kapellmeister of the classical period. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Georg Benda is the 339th most popular composer, the 160th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 167th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Czech Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Georg Benda ranks 339 out of 1,451. Before him are Keith Emerson, Luca Marenzio, Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov, Johann van Beethoven, Irving Berlin, and Klaus Schulze. After him are Clément Janequin, Ignaz Pleyel, Michael Nyman, Francesco Gasparini, Sergei Taneyev, and Francesco Durante.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1722, Georg Benda ranks 5. Before him are Ahmad Shah Durrani, Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony, Prince Augustus William of Prussia, and Gregory Skovoroda. After him are Axel Fredrik Cronstedt, Jazzar Pasha, Paisius of Hilendar, Samuel Adams, Duchess Luise of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Leopold Auenbrugger, and Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz. Among people deceased in 1795, Georg Benda ranks 9. Before him are François-André Danican Philidor, Sayat-Nova, Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, Henry Clinton, Ahilyabai Holkar, and Honoré III, Prince of Monaco. After him are Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart, Carl Michael Bellman, Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville, Pieter Boddaert, Samuel Wallis, and Josiah Wedgwood.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Georg Benda ranks 160 out of 1,200. Before him are Julius Fučík (1872), Jan Koller (1973), Karl I, Prince of Liechtenstein (1569), Jan Kodeš (1946), Jarmila Kratochvílová (1951), and Carl von Rokitansky (1804). After him are Josef Čapek (1887), Rafael Kubelík (1914), Franz Reichelt (1879), František Palacký (1798), Victor Adler (1852), and Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760).

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Among COMPOSERS In Czechia

Among composers born in Czechia, Georg Benda ranks 16. Before him are Josef Suk (1874), Anton Reicha (1770), Eduard Hanslick (1825), Franz Benda (1709), Johann Baptist Wanhal (1739), and Julius Fučík (1872). After him are Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760), Ignaz Moscheles (1794), Zdeněk Fibich (1850), Leopold Koželuch (1747), Vítězslav Novák (1870), and Franz Xaver Richter (1709).

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