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Johann Baptist Wanhal

1739 - 1813

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Johann Baptist Wanhal (12 May 1739 – 20 August 1813) was a Czech composer of the Classical period. He was born in Nechanice, Bohemia, and died in Vienna. His music was well respected by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Joseph Haydn, Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert. He was an instrumental performer as well. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Baptist Wanhal is the 302nd most popular composer (up from 396th in 2019), the 147th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 192nd in 2019) and the 14th most popular Czech Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Johann Baptist Wanhal ranks 302 out of 1,451. Before him are Gioseffo Zarlino, Antonio Soler, Louis-Claude Daquin, Johann Jakob Froberger, Francesco Geminiani, and Martin Agricola. After him are Stephen Schwartz, Dimitri Tiomkin, Gustave Charpentier, Pierre De Geyter, Max Steiner, and Niccolò Jommelli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1739, Johann Baptist Wanhal ranks 7. Before him are Grigory Potemkin, Maria Josepha of Bavaria, Charles-Henri Sanson, Charles François Dumouriez, Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber, and Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf. After him are George Clinton, Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Charles-François Lebrun, Jean Chalgrin, François Claude Amour, marquis de Bouillé, and Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart. Among people deceased in 1813, Johann Baptist Wanhal ranks 16. Before him are Christoph Martin Wieland, Jean-Andoche Junot, Sophia Magdalena of Denmark, Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Antoine-Augustin Parmentier, and Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger. After him are Tecumseh, Anders Gustaf Ekeberg, Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia, Anton Graff, Rose Bertin, and Giambattista Bodoni.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Johann Baptist Wanhal ranks 147 out of 1,200. Before him are Alfred Kubin (1877), Franz Benda (1709), Michael Czerny (1946), Barbara Bouchet (1943), Antonín Zápotocký (1884), and Bedřich Hrozný (1879). After him are Jan Kubiš (1913), František Plánička (1904), Prince Ernst of Hohenberg (1904), Cosmas of Prague (1045), Wenceslaus I, Duke of Luxembourg (1337), and Elizabeth of Bohemia (1292).

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Among COMPOSERS In Czechia

Among composers born in Czechia, Johann Baptist Wanhal ranks 14. Before him are Josef Mysliveček (1737), Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897), Josef Suk (1874), Anton Reicha (1770), Eduard Hanslick (1825), and Franz Benda (1709). After him are Julius Fučík (1872), Georg Benda (1722), Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760), Ignaz Moscheles (1794), Zdeněk Fibich (1850), and Leopold Koželuch (1747).

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