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Gottfried August Homilius

1714 - 1785

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Gottfried August Homilius (2 February 1714 – 2 June 1785) was a German composer, cantor and organist. He is considered one of the most important church composers of the generation following Bach's, and was the main representative of the empfindsamer style. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gottfried August Homilius is the 1,109th most popular composer (down from 1,008th in 2019), the 4,381st most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,942nd in 2019) and the 161st most popular German Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Gottfried August Homilius ranks 1,109 out of 1,451. Before him are Leo Ornstein, Walter Braunfels, Harald Sæverud, Jean Guillou, Boris Papandopulo, and Renzo Rossellini. After him are Emil Paur, Johanna Kinkel, Koji Kondo, Einar Englund, Jacopo da Bologna, and Aulis Sallinen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1714, Gottfried August Homilius ranks 29. Before him are René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, Suleiman II of Persia, Ranieri de' Calzabigi, Philippine Élisabeth d'Orléans, Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch, and Kosmas the Aetolian. After him are Mikhail Illarionovich Vorontsov, and Marc René, marquis de Montalembert. Among people deceased in 1785, Gottfried August Homilius ranks 20. Before him are Princess Charlotte of Hesse-Darmstadt, Frederick II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Duchess Frederica of Württemberg, Johan Herman Wessel, Johann Gerhard König, and Ali-Morad Khan Zand. After him are János Sajnovics, Stephen Hopkins, Ventura Rodríguez, John Belchier, and George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Gottfried August Homilius ranks 4,383 out of 7,253. Before him are Sven Väth (1964), Theodor Benfey (1809), Eberhard Diepgen (1941), Adolph Strecker (1822), Boris Papandopulo (1906), and Martin Mutschmann (1879). After him are Peter Dietrich (1944), Walther Müller (1905), Hans-Jürgen Dörner (1951), Johanna Kinkel (1810), Ludwig von Brenner (1833), and Sonja Graf (1908).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Gottfried August Homilius ranks 161. Before him are Eduard Künneke (1885), Hugo Distler (1908), Johann Nicolaus Bach (1669), Karl Klindworth (1830), Walter Braunfels (1882), and Boris Papandopulo (1906). After him are Johanna Kinkel (1810), Adolf Bernhard Marx (1795), Otto Jahn (1813), Oskar Sala (1910), Julius Benedict (1804), and Jean Gilbert (1879).

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