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Sylvius Leopold Weiss

1687 - 1750

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Sylvius Leopold Weiss (12 October 1687 – 16 October 1750) was a German composer and lutenist. Born in Grottkau near Breslau, the son of Johann Jacob Weiss, also a lutenist, Weiss was one of the most important and most prolific composers of lute music in history and one of the best-known and most technically accomplished lutenists of his day. In later life, Weiss became a friend of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach and met J.S. Bach through him. Bach and Weiss were said to have competed in improvisation. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sylvius Leopold Weiss is the 325th most popular composer (down from 324th in 2019), the 261st most popular biography from Poland (up from 279th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Polish Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Sylvius Leopold Weiss ranks 325 out of 1,451. Before him are Moritz Moszkowski, Nikolai Myaskovsky, Sigismond Thalberg, Johan Halvorsen, Alberto Ginastera, and Chevalier de Saint-Georges. After him are Alan Silvestri, André Campra, Aaron Copland, Heinrich Isaac, Maria Szymanowska, and Julius Fučík.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1687, Sylvius Leopold Weiss ranks 6. Before him are John William Friso, Prince of Orange, Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, Giambattista Pittoni, Francesco Geminiani, and Johann Georg Pisendel. After him are Balthasar Neumann, Johann Heinrich Schulze, Anton Ulrich, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Nicolaus I Bernoulli, William Stukeley, and Robert Simson. Among people deceased in 1750, Sylvius Leopold Weiss ranks 7. Before him are Johann Sebastian Bach, Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Maurice de Saxe, John V of Portugal, Emperor Sakuramachi, and Rachel Ruysch. After him are Vasily Tatishchev, Giuseppe Sammartini, Ludovico Antonio Muratori, Apostolo Zeno, Pietro Filippo Scarlatti, and Princess Johanna Charlotte of Anhalt-Dessau.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Sylvius Leopold Weiss ranks 261 out of 1,694. Before him are Johannes Zukertort (1842), Hagen Kleinert (1941), Moritz Moszkowski (1854), Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881), Agnieszka Holland (1948), and Hermann Schwarz (1843). After him are Hugo Münsterberg (1863), Jan Długosz (1415), Jerzy Kukuczka (1948), Aleksander Kwaśniewski (1954), Martin Kutta (1867), and Hans-Jürgen Stumpff (1889).

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Among COMPOSERS In Poland

Among composers born in Poland, Sylvius Leopold Weiss ranks 8. Before him are Krzysztof Penderecki (1933), Witold Lutosławski (1913), Henryk Górecki (1933), Martin Agricola (1486), Moritz Moszkowski (1854), and Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881). After him are Maria Szymanowska (1789), Mieczysław Weinberg (1919), Grażyna Bacewicz (1909), Viktor Ullmann (1898), Józef Elsner (1769), and Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska (1834).

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