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Ignaz Pleyel

1757 - 1831

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Ignaz (Ignace) Joseph Pleyel (French: [plɛjɛl]; German: [ˈplaɪl̩]; 18 June 1757 – 14 November 1831) was an Austrian composer, music publisher and piano builder of the Classical period. He grew up in Austria (then part of the Holy Roman Empire), and was educated there; in his mid-twenties he moved to France, and was based in France for the rest of his life. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ignaz Pleyel is the 341st most popular composer (down from 326th in 2019). (down from 666th in 2019)

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Among composers, Ignaz Pleyel ranks 341 out of 1,451. Before him are Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov, Johann van Beethoven, Irving Berlin, Klaus Schulze, Georg Benda, and Clément Janequin. After him are Michael Nyman, Francesco Gasparini, Sergei Taneyev, Francesco Durante, Luigi Dallapiccola, and Germaine Tailleferre.

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Among people born in 1757, Ignaz Pleyel ranks 15. Before him are Jacques Hébert, Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf, Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Rigas Feraios, Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, and George Vancouver. After him are Johann Matthäus Bechstein, Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis, Ercole Consalvi, Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt, and Maria Anna of Savoy, Duchess of Chablais. Among people deceased in 1831, Ignaz Pleyel ranks 19. Before him are Charles Felix of Sardinia, Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich of Russia, August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf, Barthold Georg Niebuhr, and Maria Szymanowska. After him are Vicente Guerrero, Rodolphe Kreutzer, Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, Thomas Johann Seebeck, Henri Grégoire, and Hans Karl von Diebitsch.

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