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Johan Helmich Roman

1694 - 1758

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Johan Helmich Roman (26 October 1694 – 20 November 1758) was a Swedish Baroque composer. He has been called "the father of Swedish music" or "the Swedish Handel." He was the leader of the Swedish Royal Orchestra during the first decades of Sweden's Age of Liberty. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johan Helmich Roman is the 635th most popular composer (up from 722nd in 2019), the 355th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 387th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Swedish Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Johan Helmich Roman ranks 635 out of 1,451. Before him are Franz Waxman, Stephen Foster, Jean-Féry Rebel, Ludwig Senfl, Felip Pedrell, and Alex North. After him are Wolfgang Schmieder, John Taverner, Georgy Sviridov, Pierre Henry, Malcolm Arnold, and Arthur Sullivan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1694, Johan Helmich Roman ranks 15. Before him are Hermann Samuel Reimarus, Henry Pelham, Count Palatine Joseph Charles of Sulzbach, Theodore of Corsica, Charlotte Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, and Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen. After him are Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Augustine Washington, Charles-Antoine Coypel, Daniel Gran, René Louis de Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson, and Hans Adolph Brorson. Among people deceased in 1758, Johan Helmich Roman ranks 9. Before him are Prince Augustus William of Prussia, Barbara of Portugal, Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Pierre Bouguer, Jonathan Edwards, and Senesino. After him are Ernest Augustus II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Johann Friedrich Fasch, Antoine de Jussieu, Johann Baptist Zimmermann, Lorenz Heister, and Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Johan Helmich Roman ranks 355 out of 1,879. Before him are Ulf Stark (1944), Carl Jakob Sundevall (1801), Lill-Babs (1938), Håkan the Red (1040), Kiki Håkansson (1929), and Viktor Gyökeres (1998). After him are Louis Gerhard De Geer (1818), Eric Lemming (1880), Svante Nilsson (1460), Oscar Swahn (1847), Karl Staaf (1881), and Carl Milles (1875).

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Among COMPOSERS In Sweden

Among composers born in Sweden, Johan Helmich Roman ranks 5. Before him are Dieterich Buxtehude (1637), Hugo Alfvén (1872), Princess Cecilia of Sweden (1807), and Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871). After him are Kurt Atterberg (1887), Wilhelm Peterson-Berger (1867), Allan Pettersson (1911), Lars-Erik Larsson (1908), Einar Englund (1916), Ture Rangström (1884), and Ludvig Norman (1831).

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