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Joseph Lanner

1801 - 1843

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Joseph Lanner (12 April 1801 – 14 April 1843) was an Austrian dance music composer and dance orchestra conductor. He is best remembered as one of the earliest Viennese composers to reform the waltz from a simple peasant dance to something that even the highest society could enjoy, either as an accompaniment to the dance, or for the music's own sake. He was just as famous as his friend and musical rival Johann Strauss I, who was better known outside of Austria in their day because of his concert tours abroad, in particular, to France and England. Lanner had a lesser-known son, August Lanner, who was just as musically gifted and prodigious as his father, but whose budding career was cut short by his early death at age 20. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Lanner is the 270th most popular composer (up from 298th in 2019), the 258th most popular biography from Austria (up from 295th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular Austrian Composer.

Joseph Lanner is most famous for his waltzes.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Joseph Lanner ranks 270 out of 1,451. Before him are Niels Gade, Giovanni Battista Sammartini, Johann Christoph Bach, Andrea Luchesi, Saverio Mercadante, and Turlough O'Carolan. After him are Howard Shore, Johann Christoph Bach, Friedrich Kuhlau, Steve Reich, Miklós Rózsa, and Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1801, Joseph Lanner ranks 14. Before him are Frédéric Bastiat, Amalie Auguste of Bavaria, Mikhail Ostrogradsky, Maria Theresa of Austria, John Henry Newman, and Joseph Plateau. After him are George Biddell Airy, Antoine Augustin Cournot, Archduchess Marie Caroline of Austria, Princess Sophie of Sweden, Vladimir Dal, and Zénaïde Bonaparte. Among people deceased in 1843, Joseph Lanner ranks 7. Before him are Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, Friedrich Hölderlin, Noah Webster, William I of the Netherlands, Samuel Hahnemann, and Princess Louise Auguste of Denmark. After him are Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, Theodoros Kolokotronis, John Armstrong Jr., Marie Anne Lenormand, Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, and Robert Southey.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Joseph Lanner ranks 258 out of 1,424. Before him are Frederick II, Duke of Austria (1211), Otto Rank (1884), Archduke Maximilian Eugen of Austria (1895), Anton Florian, Prince of Liechtenstein (1656), Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg (1711), and Rudolf Kirchschläger (1915). After him are Hans Hahn (1879), Oskar Potiorek (1853), Princess Alexandra of Hanover (1882), August Kubizek (1888), Božena Němcová (1820), and Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739).

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Among COMPOSERS In Austria

Among composers born in Austria, Joseph Lanner ranks 23. Before him are Anna Maria Mozart (1720), Johann Joseph Fux (1660), Johann Georg Albrechtsberger (1736), Ludwig Minkus (1826), Franz Xaver Süssmayr (1766), and Alexander von Zemlinsky (1871). After him are Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739), Franz Xaver Gruber (1787), Clemens Krauss (1893), Ludwig Ritter von Köchel (1800), Max Steiner (1888), and Ernst Krenek (1900).

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