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Joachim Raff

1822 - 1882

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Joseph Joachim Raff (27 May 1822 – 24 or 25 June 1882) was a Swiss composer, pedagogue and pianist. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joachim Raff is the 495th most popular composer (up from 510th in 2019), the 194th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 188th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Swiss Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Joachim Raff ranks 495 out of 1,451. Before him are Rikard Nordraak, Thomas Arne, Gian Francesco Malipiero, Princess Cecilia of Sweden, Riz Ortolani, and Franz Schreker. After him are Jehan Alain, Ferdinando Paer, John Koukouzelis, James Newton Howard, Neville Marriner, and Christian Sinding.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1822, Joachim Raff ranks 32. Before him are Prince Ferdinando, Duke of Genoa, Red Cloud, Juan, Count of Montizón, Henri Murger, John Pope, and Charles Friedel. After him are Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Henri d'Orléans, Duke of Aumale, Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe, Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Fritz Müller, and Jacob Moleschott. Among people deceased in 1882, Joachim Raff ranks 32. Before him are Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play, Ewelina Hańska, Jørgen Moe, Henry Draper, Mikhail Skobelev, and Henri Giffard. After him are Anthony Trollope, Henry Cole, János Arany, Princess Marie of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Berthold Auerbach, and Estanislao Figueras.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Joachim Raff ranks 194 out of 1,015. Before him are Michel Simon (1895), Rudolf I, Duke of Bavaria (1274), Matthias Zurbriggen (1856), Johann Jakob von Tschudi (1818), Jo Siffert (1936), and Charles Bally (1865). After him are Yann Sommer (1988), Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza (1945), Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1825), Ueli Maurer (1950), Frithjof Schuon (1907), and Köbi Kuhn (1943).

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Among COMPOSERS In Switzerland

Among composers born in Switzerland, Joachim Raff ranks 7. Before him are Siegfried Wagner (1869), Ernest Bloch (1880), Sigismond Thalberg (1812), Frank Martin (1890), Ernest Ansermet (1883), and Grock (1880). After him are Pancho Vladigerov (1899), Ludwig Senfl (1486), Heinz Holliger (1939), Heinrich Sutermeister (1910), Gottfried von Einem (1918), and Louis Niedermeyer (1802).

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