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Johann Schobert

1720 - 1767

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Johann Schobert (c. 1720, 1735 or 1740 – 28 August 1767) was a composer and harpsichordist. His date of birth is given variously as about 1720, about 1735, or about 1740, his place of birth as Silesia, Alsace, or Nuremberg. He died after eating poisonous mushrooms that he insisted were edible. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Schobert is the 598th most popular composer (up from 663rd in 2019), the 483rd most popular biography from Poland (up from 551st in 2019) and the 17th most popular Polish Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Johann Schobert ranks 598 out of 1,451. Before him are Tommaso Traetta, Sigfrid Karg-Elert, Claude Goudimel, Antonia Brico, Ivan Zajc, and François Devienne. After him are John Bull, Johann Andreas Stein, Helmut Lachenmann, Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini, Ernest Guiraud, and Hans Christian Lumbye.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1720, Johann Schobert ranks 18. Before him are Vilna Gaon, James Hargreaves, Heraclius II of Georgia, William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, Balaji Baji Rao, and Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel. After him are Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini, Johann Friedrich Agricola, Maximilian Hell, Emmanuel-Armand de Richelieu, duc d'Aiguillon, Charles De Geer, and Justus Möser. Among people deceased in 1767, Johann Schobert ranks 8. Before him are Maria Josepha of Saxony, Dauphine of France, Maria Josepha of Bavaria, Archduchess Maria Josepha of Austria, Giambattista Pittoni, Frederick Michael, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, and Emer de Vattel. After him are Burkhard Christoph von Münnich, Étienne de Silhouette, Ekkathat, Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, Firmin Abauzit, and Princess Luise Dorothea of Saxe-Meiningen.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Johann Schobert ranks 483 out of 1,694. Before him are Myer Prinstein (1878), Włodzimierz Lubański (1947), Leon Pinsker (1821), Fritz von Below (1853), Julian Tuwim (1894), and Fritz Freitag (1894). After him are Lidia Zamenhof (1904), Izabella Scorupco (1970), Olga Boznańska (1865), Peter Lindbergh (1944), Elisabeth Hevelius (1647), and Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (1812).

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Among COMPOSERS In Poland

Among composers born in Poland, Johann Schobert ranks 17. Before him are Grażyna Bacewicz (1909), Viktor Ullmann (1898), Józef Elsner (1769), Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska (1834), Johann Adam Hiller (1728), and Alexandre Tansman (1897). After him are Franz Waxman (1906), Wolfgang Schmieder (1901), Karol Lipiński (1790), Andrzej Panufnik (1914), Zbigniew Preisner (1955), and Johann Gottlieb Goldberg (1727).

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