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Michael Haydn

1737 - 1806

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Johann Michael Haydn (German: [ˈhaɪdn̩] ; 14 September 1737 – 10 August 1806) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period, the younger brother of Joseph Haydn. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Michael Haydn is the 183rd most popular composer (down from 157th in 2019), the 182nd most popular biography from Austria (down from 144th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Austrian Composer.

Michael Haydn was a composer of the Classical period. He is most famous for his symphonies, string quartets, and operas.

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Among composers, Michael Haydn ranks 183 out of 1,451. Before him are Giuseppe Torelli, Francesco Cavalli, Siegfried Wagner, Gustav Holst, Philip Glass, and François-Adrien Boieldieu. After him are Baldassare Galuppi, Vincenzo Galilei, Reinhold Glière, Louis Spohr, Ferruccio Busoni, and Amilcare Ponchielli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1737, Michael Haydn ranks 5. Before him are Luigi Galvani, Edward Gibbon, Thomas Paine, and Johann Friedrich Struensee. After him are Josef Mysliveček, 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 1806, Michael Haydn ranks 10. Before him are Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick, William Pitt the Younger, Charles-Henri Sanson, William V, Prince of Orange, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, and Carlo Gozzi. After him are Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, Johann Christoph Adelung, Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, Utamaro, and Nicolas Leblanc.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Michael Haydn ranks 182 out of 1,424. Before him are Victor Weisskopf (1908), Paul Ehrenfest (1880), Helmut Marko (1943), Karl Polanyi (1886), Anne of Austria, Queen of Poland (1573), and Alfred Schütz (1899). After him are Georg Joachim Rheticus (1514), Aribert Heim (1914), Archduchess Maria Johanna Gabriela of Austria (1750), Angela Hitler (1883), Albert IV, Duke of Austria (1377), and Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach (1656).

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Among COMPOSERS In Austria

Among composers born in Austria, Michael Haydn ranks 16. Before him are Carl Czerny (1791), Alma Mahler (1879), Josef Strauss (1827), Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart (1791), Eduard Strauss (1835), and Émile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865). After 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).

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