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Johann Adolf Scheibe

1708 - 1776

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Johann Adolph Scheibe (5 May 1708 – 22 April 1776) was a German-Danish composer and significant critic and theorist of music. Though much of his theoretical work survives, most of his compositions are lost, though the extant ones demonstrate a style between the Baroque and Classical periods. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Adolf Scheibe is the 1,042nd most popular composer (down from 957th in 2019), the 4,153rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,735th in 2019) and the 152nd most popular German Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Johann Adolf Scheibe ranks 1,042 out of 1,451. Before him are Magnus Lindberg, Slavko Avsenik, Marco da Gagliano, Emil Młynarski, William Sterndale Bennett, and Carlos Guastavino. After him are Michele Carafa, Frederic Rzewski, Alexander Moyzes, Harry Gregson-Williams, Rudolf Tobias, and Akira Ifukube.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1708, Johann Adolf Scheibe ranks 13. Before him are 7th Dalai Lama, Safdar Jang, Antiochus Kantemir, Egidio Duni, Georg Dionysius Ehret, and Olof von Dalin. After him are Paul Egede, and Friedrich von Hagedorn. Among people deceased in 1776, Johann Adolf Scheibe ranks 11. Before him are Louis François, Prince of Conti, Natalia Alexeievna, James Ferguson, Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse, Sabah I bin Jaber, and Duchess Maria Anna Josepha of Bavaria. After him are John Ellis, Johann Jakob Breitinger, Giuseppe Asclepi, and Nathan Hale.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Adolf Scheibe ranks 4,155 out of 7,253. Before him are Ken Adam (1921), Georg Schrimpf (1889), Christian Albrecht Jensen (1792), Herbert Wehner (1906), Peter Joseph Lenné (1789), and Georg Buschner (1925). After him are Christian Rohlfs (1849), Monika Zehrt (1952), Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1756), Barbara Krause (1959), Carl Tanzler (1877), and Conny Plank (1940).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Johann Adolf Scheibe ranks 152. Before him are Friedrich Gernsheim (1839), Princess Amalie of Saxony (1794), Friedrich Silcher (1789), Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg (1718), Gustav Lange (1830), and Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse (1774). After him are Johann Theile (1646), Frederick Loewe (1901), Eduard Künneke (1885), Hugo Distler (1908), Johann Nicolaus Bach (1669), and Karl Klindworth (1830).

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