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Jan Václav Voříšek

1791 - 1825

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Jan Václav Hugo Voříšek (Czech pronunciation: [jan ˈvaːtslaf ˈɦuɡo ˈvor̝iːʃɛk]; Johann Hugo Worzischek, 11 May 1791, in Vamberk, Bohemia – 19 November 1825, in Vienna, Austria) was a Czech composer, pianist, and organist. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jan Václav Voříšek is the 789th most popular composer (up from 793rd in 2019), the 377th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 378th in 2019) and the 39th most popular Czech Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Jan Václav Voříšek ranks 789 out of 1,451. Before him are Antonín Vranický, Stanley Myers, Hucbald, Gaspar Cassadó, Gottfried von Einem, and Karl Michael Ziehrer. After him are Gaetano Pugnani, Rued Langgaard, Jean-Henri d'Anglebert, Johann Melchior Molter, Vatroslav Lisinski, and Wolfgang Rihm.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1791, Jan Václav Voříšek ranks 31. Before him are William Elford Leach, Henryk Dembiński, Sergey Aksakov, Anne Lister, Friedrich von Gärtner, and Jan Svatopluk Presl. After him are Theodor Körner, Louis Visconti, Václav Hanka, Giuseppe Gioachino Belli, Odilon Barrot, and Josef Munzinger. Among people deceased in 1825, Jan Václav Voříšek ranks 24. Before him are Karl Ludwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Johann Friedrich Pfaff, Princess Louise of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Karl Mollweide, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, and Vladimir Borovikovsky. After him are Pierre Charles L'Enfant, Pierre Gaveaux, Peter Winter, Juan Martín Díez, Johann Karl Burckhardt, and Wilhelm Hemprich.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Jan Václav Voříšek ranks 377 out of 1,200. Before him are Gabriel von Max (1840), Ivan Mládek (1942), Otakar Vávra (1911), Antonín Vranický (1761), Jan Svatopluk Presl (1791), and Rudolf Beran (1887). After him are Zdeněk Burian (1905), Franz Konwitschny (1901), Franz Krommer (1759), Joseph von Sonnenfels (1732), Viktor Dyk (1877), and Jana Brejchová (1940).

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Among COMPOSERS In Czechia

Among composers born in Czechia, Jan Václav Voříšek ranks 39. Before him are Josef Bohuslav Foerster (1859), Václav Tomášek (1774), Anton Schindler (1795), Otakar Ševčík (1852), Antonio Rosetti (1746), and Antonín Vranický (1761). After him are Franz Krommer (1759), Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský (1684), Simon Sechter (1788), Anton Stamitz (1750), Vítězslava Kaprálová (1915), and Jaromír Weinberger (1896).

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