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Jan Ladislav Dussek

1760 - 1812

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Jan Ladislav Dussek (baptized Jan Václav Dusík, with surname also written as Duschek or Düssek; 12 February 1760 – 20 March 1812) was a Czech classical period composer and virtuoso pianist. He was an important representative of Czech music abroad in the second half of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century. Some of his more forward-looking piano works have traits often associated with Romanticism. Dussek was one of the first piano virtuosos to travel widely throughout Europe. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jan Ladislav Dussek is the 354th most popular composer (up from 364th in 2019), the 166th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 178th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Czech Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Jan Ladislav Dussek ranks 354 out of 1,451. Before him are Riccardo Broschi, Michel Richard Delalande, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Hugo Alfvén, Mieczysław Weinberg, and Samuel Scheidt. After him are Rodolphe Kreutzer, Willem Mengelberg, Hans Richter, Anatoly Lyadov, Hans Werner Henze, and Bernardo Pasquini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1760, Jan Ladislav Dussek ranks 16. Before him are Alexandre de Beauharnais, Johan Gadolin, Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, William Beckford, Oliver Wolcott Jr., and August Neidhardt von Gneisenau. After him are Jean-François Le Sueur, John Breckinridge, Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen, Aloysia Weber, Olof Swartz, and Johann Peter Hebel. Among people deceased in 1812, Jan Ladislav Dussek ranks 8. Before him are Pyotr Bagration, Emanuel Schikaneder, Étienne-Louis Malus, George Clinton, Sacagawea, and Carl Ludwig Willdenow. After him are Shneur Zalman of Liadi, Hieronymus von Colloredo, Spencer Perceval, Isaac Titsingh, Gunning Bedford Jr., and Christian Gottlob Heyne.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Jan Ladislav Dussek ranks 166 out of 1,200. Before him are Georg Benda (1722), Josef Čapek (1887), Rafael Kubelík (1914), Franz Reichelt (1879), František Palacký (1798), and Victor Adler (1852). After him are Věra Chytilová (1929), Karel Schwarzenberg (1937), Bretislav I (1005), Blanche of Valois (1316), Balthasar Neumann (1687), and Vladislaus II, Duke of Bohemia (1110).

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Among COMPOSERS In Czechia

Among composers born in Czechia, Jan Ladislav Dussek ranks 17. Before him are Anton Reicha (1770), Eduard Hanslick (1825), Franz Benda (1709), Johann Baptist Wanhal (1739), Julius Fučík (1872), and Georg Benda (1722). After him are Ignaz Moscheles (1794), Zdeněk Fibich (1850), Leopold Koželuch (1747), Vítězslav Novák (1870), Franz Xaver Richter (1709), and Erwin Schulhoff (1894).

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