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Josef Mysliveček

1737 - 1781

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Josef Mysliveček (9 March 1737 – 4 February 1781) was a Czech composer who contributed to the formation of late eighteenth-century classicism in music. Mysliveček provided his younger friend Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with significant compositional models in the genres of symphony, Italian serious opera, and violin concerto; both Wolfgang and his father Leopold Mozart considered him an intimate friend from the time of their first meetings in Bologna in 1770 until he betrayed their trust over the promise of an operatic commission for Wolfgang to be arranged with the management of the Teatro San Carlo in Naples. His closeness to the Mozart family resulted in frequent references to him in the Mozart correspondence. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Josef Mysliveček is the 217th most popular composer (up from 300th in 2019), the 106th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 149th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Czech Composer.

Josef Mysliveček was a Czech composer who is most famous for his operas and symphonies.

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Among composers, Josef Mysliveček ranks 217 out of 1,451. Before him are Leonardo Vinci, Pauline Viardot, Dmitry Bortniansky, John Barry, Johann Joseph Fux, and Umberto Giordano. After him are Francesca Caccini, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Josef Suk, Eugène Ysaÿe, Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, and Andrea Gabrieli.

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Among people born in 1737, Josef Mysliveček ranks 6. Before him are Luigi Galvani, Edward Gibbon, Thomas Paine, Johann Friedrich Struensee, and Michael Haydn. After him are Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Antoine-Augustin Parmentier, Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria, Marie-Louise O'Murphy, Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov, and Louise of France. Among people deceased in 1781, Josef Mysliveček ranks 5. Before him are Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Túpac Amaru II, and Mariana Victoria of Spain. After him are Abram Petrovich Gannibal, Ablai Khan, Franz Joseph I, Prince of Liechtenstein, Johann Anton Güldenstädt, Faustina Bordoni, Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, Count of Maurepas, and John Needham.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Josef Mysliveček ranks 106 out of 1,200. Before him are Antonín Novotný (1904), Matthias Sindelar (1903), Anne of Bohemia (1366), František Kupka (1871), Agnes of Bohemia (1211), and Julius Fučík (1903). After him are Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897), Josef Suk (1874), Oldřich Nejedlý (1909), Vratislaus II of Bohemia (1035), Konrad Henlein (1898), and Jiří Menzel (1938).

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Among COMPOSERS In Czechia

Among composers born in Czechia, Josef Mysliveček ranks 8. Before him are Antonín Dvořák (1841), Bedřich Smetana (1824), Leoš Janáček (1854), Bohuslav Martinů (1890), Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679), and Johann Stamitz (1717). After him are Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897), Josef Suk (1874), Anton Reicha (1770), Eduard Hanslick (1825), Franz Benda (1709), and Johann Baptist Wanhal (1739).

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