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Johann Gottlieb Graun

1703 - 1771

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Johann Gottlieb Graun (1702/1703 – 27 October 1771) was a German Baroque/Classical era composer and violinist, born in Wahrenbrück. His brother Carl Heinrich was a singer and also a composer, and is the better known of the two. Johann Gottlieb studied with J.G. Pisendel in Dresden and Giuseppe Tartini in Padua. Appointed Konzertmeister in Merseburg in 1726, he taught the violin to J.S. Bach's son Wilhelm Friedemann. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Gottlieb Graun is the 796th most popular composer (down from 778th in 2019). (down from 2,347th in 2019)

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Among composers, Johann Gottlieb Graun ranks 796 out of 1,451. Before him are Gaetano Pugnani, Rued Langgaard, Jean-Henri d'Anglebert, Johann Melchior Molter, Vatroslav Lisinski, and Wolfgang Rihm. After him are Matvey Blanter, Luis de Narváez, Nikolai Tcherepnin, Franz Krommer, Moritz Hauptmann, and Luzzasco Luzzaschi.

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Among people born in 1703, Johann Gottlieb Graun ranks 12. Before him are Shah Waliullah Dehlawi, Jonathan Edwards, Anton Wilhelm Amo, Johann Theodor of Bavaria, Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Baden-Durlach, and Aleksei Chirikov. After him are Jean-François Séguier, Vasily Trediakovsky, Mary Toft, Jack Broughton, and Kashibai. Among people deceased in 1771, Johann Gottlieb Graun ranks 17. Before him are Thomas Gray, Tobias Smollett, Dmitry Laptev, Frederick William, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt, Alexei Razumovsky, and Infanta Maria Doroteia of Portugal. After him are Konrad Ernst Ackermann, William Fermor, Augustus George, Margrave of Baden-Baden, Jan Klemens Branicki, Sydney Parkinson, and Christopher Smart.

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