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Johann Kuhnau

1660 - 1722

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Johann Kuhnau (German: [ˈkuːnaʊ]; 6 April 1660 – 5 June 1722) was a German polymath, known primarily as a composer today. He was also active as a novelist, translator, lawyer, and music theorist, and was able to combine these activities with his duties in his official post as Thomaskantor in Leipzig, which he occupied for 21 years. Much of his music, including operas, masses, and other large-scale vocal works, is lost. His reputation today rests on his Biblical Sonatas, a set of programmatic keyboard sonatas published in 1700, in which each sonata depicted in detail a particular story from the Bible. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Kuhnau is the 313th most popular composer (up from 349th in 2019), the 1,179th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,421st in 2019) and the 46th most popular German Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Johann Kuhnau ranks 313 out of 1,451. Before him are Max Steiner, Niccolò Jommelli, Gustav Leonhardt, Antonio Lotti, Johann Mattheson, and Cipriano de Rore. After him are Charles Ives, Thomas Tallis, Pietro Della Valle, Georges Auric, Johann Georg Pisendel, and Moritz Moszkowski.

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Among people born in 1660, Johann Kuhnau ranks 7. Before him are Daniel Defoe, George I of Great Britain, Alessandro Scarlatti, Maria Anna Victoria of Bavaria, Johann Joseph Fux, and Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough. After him are André Campra, Veronica Giuliani, Hans Sloane, Andreas Schlüter, Francesco II d'Este, Duke of Modena, and Johann Patkul. Among people deceased in 1722, Johann Kuhnau ranks 6. Before him are Kangxi Emperor, Elizabeth Charlotte, Madame Palatine, John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, Bartholomew Roberts, and John Toland. After him are Pierre Varignon, Johann Adam Reincken, Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld, Adriaen van der Werff, Marie Anne de La Trémoille, princesse des Ursins, and Claude Gillot.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Kuhnau ranks 1,179 out of 7,253. Before him are Levin August von Bennigsen (1745), Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué (1777), Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Germany (1227), Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (1658), Henry Suso (1295), and August von Wassermann (1866). After him are Prince George William of Hanover (1915), Princess Friederike of Hesse-Darmstadt (1752), Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern (1835), Countess Palatine Dorothea Sophie of Neuburg (1670), John, Elector of Saxony (1468), and Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach (1775).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Johann Kuhnau ranks 46. Before him are Friedrich Kuhlau (1786), Hanns Eisler (1898), Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1709), Georg Böhm (1661), Johann Jakob Froberger (1616), and Johann Mattheson (1681). After him are Johann Georg Pisendel (1687), Johann van Beethoven (1740), Klaus Schulze (1947), Samuel Scheidt (1587), Hans Werner Henze (1926), and Hans Leo Hassler (1564).

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