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Johann van Beethoven

1740 - 1792

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Johann van Beethoven (c. 1739 or 1740 – 18 December 1792) was a German musician, teacher, and singer who sang in the chapel of the Archbishop of Cologne, whose court was at Bonn. He is best known as the father of the celebrated composer Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827). Johann became an alcoholic later in his life and was at times an abusive father to Ludwig. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johann van Beethoven is the 336th most popular composer (down from 287th in 2019), the 1,271st most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,160th in 2019) and the 48th most popular German Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Johann van Beethoven ranks 336 out of 1,451. Before him are Maria Szymanowska, Julius Fučík, Bernard Herrmann, Keith Emerson, Luca Marenzio, and Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov. After him are Irving Berlin, Klaus Schulze, Georg Benda, Clément Janequin, Ignaz Pleyel, and Michael Nyman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1740, Johann van Beethoven ranks 8. Before him are Ivan VI of Russia, Isabelle de Charrière, Giovanni Paisiello, Empress Go-Sakuramachi, Horace Bénédict de Saussure, and Jeanne Baret. After him are Carl Michael Bellman, Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein, Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay, Louis-Sébastien Mercier, John Sullivan, and Giambattista Bodoni. Among people deceased in 1792, Johann van Beethoven ranks 9. Before him are Gustav III of Sweden, Maria Luisa of Spain, Frederick North, Lord North, Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe, Joshua Reynolds, and Richard Arkwright. After him are Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Tiradentes, and Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann van Beethoven ranks 1,271 out of 7,253. Before him are Alexander Gauland (1941), Tilman Riemenschneider (1460), Franz Oppenheimer (1864), Karl Theodor Anton Maria von Dalberg (1744), Alfred Weber (1868), and Henry the Middle, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1468). After him are Clemens August Graf von Galen (1878), Christian Wulff (1959), Gertrude of Merania (1185), Horst Schumann (1906), Hans Driesch (1867), and Joachim I Nestor, Elector of Brandenburg (1484).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Johann van Beethoven ranks 48. Before him are Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1709), Georg Böhm (1661), Johann Jakob Froberger (1616), Johann Mattheson (1681), Johann Kuhnau (1660), and Johann Georg Pisendel (1687). After him are Klaus Schulze (1947), Samuel Scheidt (1587), Hans Werner Henze (1926), Hans Leo Hassler (1564), Christian Gottlob Neefe (1748), and Karl Richter (1926).

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