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Johann Andreas Stein

1728 - 1792

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Johann (Georg) Andreas Stein (16 May 1728 – 29 February 1792) was an outstanding German maker of keyboard instruments, a central figure in the history of the piano. He was primarily responsible for the design of the so-called German hammer action. Pianos with this hammer action, or its more developed form known as the Viennese action, may be said to be appropriate for the performance of the piano music of Haydn, Mozart, and the early works of Beethoven and Schubert. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Andreas Stein is the 600th most popular composer (up from 691st in 2019), the 2,369th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,765th in 2019) and the 93rd most popular German Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Johann Andreas Stein ranks 600 out of 1,451. Before him are Claude Goudimel, Antonia Brico, Ivan Zajc, François Devienne, Johann Schobert, and John Bull. After him are Helmut Lachenmann, Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini, Ernest Guiraud, Hans Christian Lumbye, Pietro Nardini, and Aleksandra Pakhmutova.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1728, Johann Andreas Stein ranks 21. Before him are Ali Bey al-Kabir, Oliver Goldsmith, Hiraga Gennai, Johann Adam Hiller, John Hunter, and Matthew Boulton. After him are Carlo Allioni, Kirill Razumovski, Ferdinando Galiani, Shah Alam II, Franz Xaver von Wulfen, and José Moñino, 1st Count of Floridablanca. Among people deceased in 1792, Johann Andreas Stein ranks 21. Before him are Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz, Joseph Martin Kraus, Denis Fonvizin, Robert Adam, Jacques Cazotte, and Nguyễn Huệ. After him are Legall de Kermeur, Maximilian Hell, Antonio Rosetti, Antoine Louis, John Smeaton, and Yazid of Morocco.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Andreas Stein ranks 2,370 out of 7,253. Before him are John Sutter (1803), Magdalene of Bavaria (1587), Hermann-Bernhard Ramcke (1889), Sigismund, Duke of Bavaria (1439), Leopold II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (1700), and Princess Helena Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1888). After him are Sigmund Rascher (1909), Friedrich Hossbach (1894), Astrid Kirchherr (1938), Charlotte Bühler (1893), Wilhelm Boger (1906), and Ruth Fuchs (1946).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Johann Andreas Stein ranks 93. Before him are Johann Gottlieb Naumann (1741), Max Richter (1966), Johann Nikolaus Forkel (1749), Aloysia Weber (1760), Johann Christoph Pepusch (1667), and Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877). After him are Helmut Lachenmann (1935), Franz Abt (1819), Gershon Kingsley (1922), Johann Ludwig Krebs (1713), Johann Caspar Kerll (1627), and Johann Friedrich Agricola (1720).

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