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Václav Tomášek

1774 - 1850

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Václav Jan Křtitel Tomášek (in German: Wenzel Johann Tomaschek; 17 April 1774, Skuteč, Bohemia – 3 April 1850, Prague) was an Austrian-Bohemian, by other accounts a Czech composer and music teacher. He was known as the Musical Pope of Prague. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Václav Tomášek is the 719th most popular composer (up from 898th in 2019), the 340th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 431st in 2019) and the 34th most popular Czech Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Václav Tomášek ranks 719 out of 1,451. Before him are Michel Corrette, Benjamin Godard, Eduard Tubin, Adalbert Gyrowetz, Josef Bohuslav Foerster, and Diego Ortiz. After him are Nannette Streicher, Alberto Iglesias, Anton Schindler, Giaches de Wert, Mieczysław Karłowicz, and Bartolomeo Tromboncino.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1774, Václav Tomášek ranks 23. Before him are Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall, André Marie Constant Duméril, Matthew Flinders, Robert Southey, Francis Baily, and Lord William Bentinck. After him are Pierre Rode, Karl Mollweide, Marie-Denise Villers, Johann Jakob Bernhardi, Georg von Langsdorff, and Meriwether Lewis. Among people deceased in 1850, Václav Tomášek ranks 39. Before him are Gustav Schwab, Heinrich Christian Schumacher, Johann Gottfried Schadow, Lorenzo Bartolini, Margaret Fuller, and Adalbert Gyrowetz. After him are Lodewijk van Heiden, Johann Jakob Bernhardi, Karl Friedrich von Gaertner, Bernt Michael Holmboe, Bashir Shihab II, and Charles Rivière-Hérard.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Václav Tomášek ranks 340 out of 1,200. Before him are Svatopluk Pluskal (1930), Józef Czapski (1896), Adalbert Gyrowetz (1763), Josef Bohuslav Foerster (1859), Princess Bathildis of Schaumburg-Lippe (1873), and Zdeněk Nehoda (1952). After him are Josef Jungmann (1773), Milan Baroš (1981), Anton Schindler (1795), Karel Jaromír Erben (1811), Jiří Raška (1941), and Josef Suk (1929).

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Among COMPOSERS In Czechia

Among composers born in Czechia, Václav Tomášek ranks 34. Before him are František Brixi (1732), Oskar Nedbal (1874), Paul Wranitzky (1756), Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer (1656), Adalbert Gyrowetz (1763), and Josef Bohuslav Foerster (1859). After him are Anton Schindler (1795), Otakar Ševčík (1852), Antonio Rosetti (1746), Antonín Vranický (1761), Jan Václav Voříšek (1791), and Franz Krommer (1759).

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