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Johann Gottfried Walther

1684 - 1748

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Johann Gottfried Walther (18 September 1684 – 23 March 1748) was a German music theorist, organist, composer, and lexicographer of the Baroque era. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Gottfried Walther is the 472nd most popular composer (down from 457th in 2024), the 1,903rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,810th in 2019) and the 75th most popular German Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Johann Gottfried Walther ranks 472 out of 1,451. Before him are Paul Bowles, Joseph Martin Kraus, Friedrich von Flotow, Antonio Maria Abbatini, Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska, and Étienne Méhul. After him are Alfredo Catalani, Robert Stolz, Rodion Shchedrin, Vítězslav Novák, Adolf von Henselt, and Oscar Straus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1684, Johann Gottfried Walther ranks 8. Before him are Jean-Antoine Watteau, Ludvig Holberg, Maria Barbara Bach, Tokugawa Yoshimune, Francesco Durante, and Charles Alexander, Duke of Württemberg. After him are Jean Astruc, Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Jean-Baptiste van Loo, Kimpa Vita, Robert Maynard, and Wilhelm Reinhard von Neipperg. Among people deceased in 1748, Johann Gottfried Walther ranks 7. Before him are Johann Bernoulli, Muhammad Shah, Nizam-ul-Mulk, Asaf Jah I, James Thomson, Countess Palatine Dorothea Sophie of Neuburg, and Ewald Georg von Kleist. After him are Johann Nepomuk Karl, Prince of Liechtenstein, Ernest Augustus I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Ebrahim Afshar, William Kent, Abul Khair Khan, and Aleksei Chirikov.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Gottfried Walther ranks 1,903 out of 7,253. Before him are Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1808), Eduard Rüppell (1794), Therese Brandl (1902), Ralf Schumacher (1975), Kurt Gerron (1897), and Andreas Karlstadt (1486). After him are Barbara of Brandenburg (1464), Prince Henry of Prussia (1726), Otto Abetz (1903), Hans Hermann von Katte (1704), Prince Adalbert of Prussia (1884), and Eilhard Mitscherlich (1794).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Johann Gottfried Walther ranks 75. Before him are Christoph Graupner (1683), Simon Mayr (1763), Alfred Einstein (1880), Heinrich Marschner (1795), Joseph Martin Kraus (1756), and Friedrich von Flotow (1812). After him are Adolf von Henselt (1814), Johann Crüger (1598), Fredrik Pacius (1809), Johann Ludwig Bach (1677), Reinhard Keiser (1674), and Friedrich Wieck (1785).

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