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Johann Kirnberger

1721 - 1783

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Johann Philipp Kirnberger (also Kernberg; 24 April 1721, Saalfeld – 27 July 1783, Berlin) was a musician, composer (primarily of fugues) and music theorist. He studied the organ with Johann Peter Kellner and Heinrich Nicolaus Gerber, and starting in 1738 he studied with the violinist Meil in Sondershausen, but most significant is the time he spent from 1739 until 1741 (with breaks) studying performance and composition with Johann Sebastian Bach. Between 1741 and 1751 Kirnberger lived and worked in Poland for powerful magnates including Lubomirski, Poninski, and Rzewuski before ending up at the Benedictine Cloister in Lviv (then part of Poland). He spent much time collecting Polish national dances and compiled them in his treatise Die Charaktere der Tänze.: 211  Kirnberger played a significant role in the intellectual and cultural exchange between Germany and Poland in the mid-18th century. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Kirnberger is the 432nd most popular composer (up from 479th in 2019), the 1,735th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,900th in 2019) and the 63rd most popular German Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Johann Kirnberger ranks 432 out of 1,451. Before him are Domenico Zipoli, Francesco Cilea, Franz Schmidt, Federico Mompou, Carl Friedrich Zelter, and Albert Lortzing. After him are Johann Schein, Yo-Yo Ma, Ethel Smyth, Ferdinand Ries, William Walton, and Leopold Koželuch.

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Among people born in 1721, Johann Kirnberger ranks 6. Before him are Madame de Pompadour, Bernardo Bellotto, Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, and Countess Palatine Caroline of Zweibrücken. After him are Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, Countess Palatine Elisabeth Auguste of Sulzbach, Louis Victor, Prince of Carignano, Prince William, Duke of Cumberland, Tobias Smollett, and Samuel von Brukenthal. Among people deceased in 1783, Johann Kirnberger ranks 11. Before him are Étienne Bézout, Yosa Buson, Antonio Soler, Carl Linnaeus the Younger, Princess Caroline Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt, and Grigory Orlov. After him are Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, Johann Jakob Bodmer, Benedict Joseph Labre, Christian Mayer, Gerhard Friedrich Müller, and Nikita Ivanovich Panin.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Kirnberger ranks 1,735 out of 7,253. Before him are Joschka Fischer (1948), Charles of Saxony, Duke of Courland (1733), Ottmar Walter (1924), William I, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg (1487), Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord (1878), and Oswald Achenbach (1827). After him are Werner Jaeger (1888), Elisabeth of Hesse, Electress Palatine (1539), August Ludwig von Schlözer (1735), Louis I, Grand Duke of Baden (1763), Adolf Hurwitz (1859), and Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Johann Kirnberger ranks 63. Before him are Nicolaus Bruhns (1665), Ferdinand Hiller (1811), Wolfgang Wagner (1919), Hermann Abendroth (1883), Carl Friedrich Zelter (1758), and Albert Lortzing (1801). After him are Johann Schein (1586), Ferdinand Ries (1784), Princess Philippine Charlotte of Prussia (1716), Hugo Riemann (1849), Carl Loewe (1796), and Christoph Graupner (1683).

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