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John Stanley

1712 - 1786

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Charles John Stanley (17 January 1712 Old Style – 19 May 1786) was an English composer and organist. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Stanley is the 733rd most popular composer (up from 1,335th in 2019), the 2,299th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,910th in 2019) and the 31st most popular British Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, John Stanley ranks 733 out of 1,451. Before him are Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, Heinrich Sutermeister, Antonio Rosetti, Ferdinand David, Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, and Andreas Werckmeister. After him are Lodovico Grossi da Viadana, Emil von Reznicek, Gabriel Yared, Joseph Jongen, Sun Ra, and Stephen Sondheim.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1712, John Stanley ranks 16. Before him are Pauline Félicité de Mailly-Nesle, George Grenville, Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, Francesco Algarotti, Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay, and Toriyama Sekien. After him are James Steuart, Karl Friedrich, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Johann Samuel König, Konrad Ernst Ackermann, Charles, Prince of Nassau-Usingen, and Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff. Among people deceased in 1786, John Stanley ranks 14. Before him are John Goodricke, Eva Ekeblad, Gaspar de Portolá, Tokugawa Ieharu, Princess Ernestine of Saxe-Weimar, and Antonio Sacchini. After him are Hans Joachim von Zieten, Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, Pierre Poivre, John Byron, Princess Amelia of Great Britain, and Thomas Wright.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Stanley ranks 2,299 out of 8,785. Before him are William Sealy Gosset (1876), Peter Hammill (1948), Miranda Richardson (1958), Howard Jones (1955), Ernest Bevin (1881), and Tom Courtenay (1937). After him are Mike Rutherford (1950), Leonard Woolf (1880), Abhisit Vejjajiva (1964), John Morley (1838), Bob Wilson (1941), and Roger Hunt (1938).

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Among COMPOSERS In United Kingdom

Among composers born in United Kingdom, John Stanley ranks 31. Before him are Pasquale Anfossi (1727), John Bull (1562), John Taverner (1490), Malcolm Arnold (1921), Arthur Sullivan (1842), and Jeremiah Clarke (1674). After him are Thomas Morley (1557), Stanley Myers (1930), Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (1892), York Bowen (1884), Michael Tippett (1905), and Rebecca Clarke (1886).

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