COMPOSER

Johann Adam Hiller

1728 - 1804

Photo of Johann Adam Hiller

Icon of person Johann Adam Hiller

Johann Adam Hiller (25 December 1728 – 16 June 1804) was a German composer, conductor and writer on music, regarded as the creator of the Singspiel, an early form of German opera. In many of these operas he collaborated with the poet Christian Felix Weiße. Hiller was a teacher who encouraged musical education for women, his pupils including Elisabeth Mara and Corona Schröter. He was Kapellmeister of Abel Seyler's theatrical company, and became the first Kapellmeister of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Adam Hiller is the 541st most popular composer (down from 492nd in 2019), the 421st most popular biography from Poland (down from 403rd in 2019) and the 15th most popular Polish Composer.

Memorability Metrics

Loading...

Page views of Johann Adam Hiller by language

Loading...

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Johann Adam Hiller ranks 541 out of 1,451. Before him are Albert Ketèlbey, Michael Kamen, Vasily Kalinnikov, Gara Garayev, Henri Duparc, and R. D. Burman. After him are Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach, Hans Swarowsky, Philippe Herreweghe, John Adams, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, and Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger.

Most Popular Composers in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1728, Johann Adam Hiller ranks 18. Before him are Étienne-Louis Boullée, Charles Eugene, Duke of Württemberg, Robert Adam, Ali Bey al-Kabir, Oliver Goldsmith, and Hiraga Gennai. After him are John Hunter, Matthew Boulton, Johann Andreas Stein, Carlo Allioni, Kirill Razumovski, and Ferdinando Galiani. Among people deceased in 1804, Johann Adam Hiller ranks 17. Before him are Jean-Charles Pichegru, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Jazzar Pasha, Antoine Baumé, and Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie. After him are Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, 8th Dalai Lama, Martin Vahl, Georges Cadoudal, Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre, Aagje Deken, and Carlo Allioni.

Others Born in 1728

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1804

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Johann Adam Hiller ranks 421 out of 1,694. Before him are Wilhelm Kube (1887), Hyacinth of Poland (1185), John Cantius (1390), Hellmuth Stieff (1901), Gustav Freytag (1816), and Friedrich Ernst Dorn (1848). After him are Jan Jesenius (1566), Zbigniew Religa (1938), Daniel Chodowiecki (1726), Hans Bellmer (1902), Josef Hofmann (1876), and Sendivogius (1566).

Others born in Poland

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among COMPOSERS In Poland

Among composers born in Poland, Johann Adam Hiller ranks 15. Before him are Maria Szymanowska (1789), Mieczysław Weinberg (1919), Grażyna Bacewicz (1909), Viktor Ullmann (1898), Józef Elsner (1769), and Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska (1834). After him are Alexandre Tansman (1897), Johann Schobert (1720), Franz Waxman (1906), Wolfgang Schmieder (1901), Karol Lipiński (1790), and Andrzej Panufnik (1914).

Polish born Composers

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous