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Johann Melchior Molter

1696 - 1765

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Johann Melchior Molter (10 February 1696 – 12 January 1765) was a German composer and violinist of the late Baroque period. He was born at Tiefenort, near Eisenach, and was educated at the Gymnasium in Eisenach. By autumn 1717 he had left Eisenach and was working as a violinist in Karlsruhe. Here he married Maria Salome Rollwagen, with whom he had eight children. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Melchior Molter is the 793rd most popular composer (down from 759th in 2019), the 3,157th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,030th in 2019) and the 118th most popular German Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Johann Melchior Molter ranks 793 out of 1,451. Before him are Gottfried von Einem, Karl Michael Ziehrer, Jan Václav Voříšek, Gaetano Pugnani, Rued Langgaard, and Jean-Henri d'Anglebert. After him are Vatroslav Lisinski, Wolfgang Rihm, Johann Gottlieb Graun, Matvey Blanter, Luis de Narváez, and Nikolai Tcherepnin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1696, Johann Melchior Molter ranks 13. Before him are Shah Jahan II, Abram Petrovich Gannibal, James Oglethorpe, Princess Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, and Christian August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg. After him are Marco Foscarini, Vakhushti of Kartli, Francesca Cuzzoni, Eleonore Wilhelmine of Anhalt-Köthen, Maurice Greene, and Henry Home, Lord Kames. Among people deceased in 1765, Johann Melchior Molter ranks 16. Before him are Charles-André van Loo, Princess Sophia Dorothea of Prussia, Prince William, Duke of Cumberland, Carl Alexander Clerck, Edward Young, and Johan Agrell. After him are Mir Jafar, William Stukeley, Richard Pococke, Prince Frederick of Great Britain, and Prokop Diviš.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Melchior Molter ranks 3,159 out of 7,253. Before him are Hans Multscher (1400), Karl-Heinz Riedle (1965), Bernhard Vogel (1932), Countess Palatine Hedwig Elisabeth of Neuburg (1673), Karl Ludwig Sand (1795), and Heinrich Vogeler (1872). After him are Jacob Hübner (1761), Dragan Holcer (1945), Oliver Riedel (1971), Magnus I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (1488), Georg Herwegh (1817), and Josias von Heeringen (1850).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Johann Melchior Molter ranks 118. Before him are Andreas Werckmeister (1645), Aribert Reimann (1936), Matthias Weckmann (1619), Franz Lachner (1803), Johann Rosenmüller (1619), and Johann Baptist Cramer (1771). After him are Wolfgang Rihm (1952), Moritz Hauptmann (1792), Christian Cannabich (1731), Johann Krieger (1651), Julius Röntgen (1855), and Heinrich Scheidemann (1596).

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