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Johann Adolph Hasse

1699 - 1783

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Johann Adolph Hasse (baptised 25 March 1699 – 16 December 1783) was an 18th-century German composer, singer and teacher of music. Immensely popular in his time, Hasse was best known for his prolific operatic output, though he also composed a considerable quantity of sacred music. Married to soprano Faustina Bordoni and a friend of librettist Pietro Metastasio, whose libretti he frequently set, Hasse was a pivotal figure in the development of opera seria and 18th-century music. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Adolph Hasse is the 190th most popular composer (up from 240th in 2019), the 737th most popular biography from Germany (up from 948th in 2019) and the 29th most popular German Composer.

Johann Adolf Hasse was a German composer of Italian opera. He is best known for his operas, which were written in the style of the Neapolitan School.

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Among composers, Johann Adolph Hasse ranks 190 out of 1,451. Before him are Baldassare Galuppi, Vincenzo Galilei, Reinhold Glière, Louis Spohr, Ferruccio Busoni, and Amilcare Ponchielli. After him are Giovanni Bononcini, Dmitry Kabalevsky, Stanisław Moniuszko, Samuel Barber, Michael Praetorius, and Niccolò Piccinni.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1699, Johann Adolph Hasse ranks 6. Before him are Christian VI of Denmark, Osman III, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, Maria Josepha of Austria, and Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal. After him are Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin, Anna Leszczyńska, Françoise-Louise de Warens, Hans Joachim von Zieten, and Bernard de Jussieu. Among people deceased in 1783, Johann Adolph Hasse ranks 4. Before him are Leonhard Euler, Jean le Rond d'Alembert, and Capability Brown. After him are Étienne Bézout, Yosa Buson, Antonio Soler, Carl Linnaeus the Younger, Princess Caroline Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt, Grigory Orlov, Johann Kirnberger, and Franz Xaver Messerschmidt.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Adolph Hasse ranks 737 out of 7,253. Before him are Ludwig Stumpfegger (1910), Johann Deisenhofer (1943), Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim (1771), Manfred Gerlach (1928), Elisabeth of Wied (1843), and Nikolaus Harnoncourt (1929). After him are Jürgen Stroop (1895), Thomas Bach (1953), John Ernest IV, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1658), Magda Schneider (1909), Hugo Ball (1886), and Reinhard Gehlen (1902).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Johann Adolph Hasse ranks 29. Before him are Fanny Mendelssohn (1805), Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710), Kurt Weill (1900), Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732), Max Reger (1873), and Louis Spohr (1784). After him are Michael Praetorius (1571), Johann Ambrosius Bach (1645), Johann Joachim Quantz (1697), Carl Reinecke (1824), Engelbert Humperdinck (1854), and Carl Friedrich Abel (1723).

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