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Reinhard Keiser

1674 - 1739

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Reinhard Keiser (9 January 1674 – 12 September 1739) was a German opera composer based in Hamburg. He wrote over a hundred operas. Johann Adolf Scheibe (writing in 1745) considered him an equal to Johann Kuhnau, George Frideric Handel and Georg Philipp Telemann, but his work was largely forgotten for many decades. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Reinhard Keiser is the 516th most popular composer (up from 597th in 2019), the 2,046th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,363rd in 2019) and the 80th most popular German Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Reinhard Keiser ranks 516 out of 1,451Before him are Kaija Saariaho, Johann Ludwig Bach, Luis Bacalov, Bill Conti, Leroy Anderson, and Jean Françaix. After him are Jean Absil, Nicolas-Charles Bochsa, Franck Pourcel, Maddalena Casulana, Léon Boëllmann, and Francesco Maria Veracini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1674, Reinhard Keiser ranks 3Before him are Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, and Christian III, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken. After him are Ibrahim Muteferrika, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, Jeremiah Clarke, Jethro Tull, Marie of Lorraine, Margravine Elisabeth Sophie of Brandenburg, Jean-Baptiste Du Halde, Dorothea Marie of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, and Isaac Watts. Among people deceased in 1739, Reinhard Keiser ranks 7Before him are Charles Frederick, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, Benedetto Marcello, Marie Anne de Bourbon, Charles François de Cisternay du Fay, Saliha Sultan, and James Anderson. After him are Ernest Louis, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach, Cosmas Damian Asam, Dick Turpin, and George Lillo.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Reinhard Keiser ranks 2,047 out of 7,253Before him are Hinrich Lohse (1896), Dieter Schwarz (1939), Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge (1795), Christian the Younger of Brunswick (1599), Hieronymus Wolf (1516), and Menahem Pressler (1923). After him are Veit Harlan (1899), Johann Trollmann (1907), Princess Dorothea Charlotte of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1661), Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller (1725), Hanns Heinz Ewers (1871), and Hans Hartung (1904).

Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Reinhard Keiser ranks 80Before him are Friedrich von Flotow (1812), Johann Gottfried Walther (1684), Adolf von Henselt (1814), Johann Crüger (1598), Fredrik Pacius (1809), and Johann Ludwig Bach (1677). After him are Friedrich Wieck (1785), Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach (1759), Johann David Heinichen (1683), Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918), Conradin Kreutzer (1780), and Hermann Scherchen (1891).