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Johann Georg Pisendel

1687 - 1755

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Johann Georg Pisendel (5 January 1688 [O.S. 26 December 1687] – 25 November 1755) was a German Baroque violinist and composer who, for many years, led the Court Orchestra in Dresden as concertmaster, then the finest instrumental ensemble in Europe. He was the leading violinist of his time, and composers such as Tomaso Albinoni, Georg Philipp Telemann and Antonio Vivaldi all dedicated violin compositions to him. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Georg Pisendel is the 318th most popular composer (up from 392nd in 2019), the 1,203rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,602nd in 2019) and the 47th most popular German Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Johann Georg Pisendel ranks 318 out of 1,451. Before him are Cipriano de Rore, Johann Kuhnau, Charles Ives, Thomas Tallis, Pietro Della Valle, and Georges Auric. After him are Moritz Moszkowski, Nikolai Myaskovsky, Sigismond Thalberg, Johan Halvorsen, Alberto Ginastera, and Chevalier de Saint-Georges.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1687, Johann Georg Pisendel ranks 5. Before him are John William Friso, Prince of Orange, Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, Giambattista Pittoni, and Francesco Geminiani. After him are Sylvius Leopold Weiss, Balthasar Neumann, Johann Heinrich Schulze, Anton Ulrich, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Nicolaus I Bernoulli, William Stukeley, and Robert Simson. Among people deceased in 1755, Johann Georg Pisendel ranks 2. Before him is Montesquieu. After him are Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve, Francesco Durante, Johann Georg Gmelin, Gerard Majella, Princess Albertina Frederica of Baden-Durlach, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, Jean-Baptiste Oudry, Johann Georg Christian, Prince of Lobkowicz, and Zhang Tingyu.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Georg Pisendel ranks 1,203 out of 7,253. Before him are Josef Harpe (1887), Carsten Niebuhr (1733), Manuel Neuer (1986), Engelbert Kaempfer (1651), Johann Philipp Reis (1834), and Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf (1757). After him are Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1757), Walter Kasper (1933), Franz Josef Strauss (1915), Hannah Höch (1889), Herbert Gille (1897), and Gotthard of Hildesheim (960).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Johann Georg Pisendel ranks 47. Before him are Hanns Eisler (1898), Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1709), Georg Böhm (1661), Johann Jakob Froberger (1616), Johann Mattheson (1681), and Johann Kuhnau (1660). After him are Johann van Beethoven (1740), Klaus Schulze (1947), Samuel Scheidt (1587), Hans Werner Henze (1926), Hans Leo Hassler (1564), and Christian Gottlob Neefe (1748).

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