Which Happened First?

Reinhard Keiser

Reinhard Keiser
Image: Keiser, Reinhard ; Hoë, Johann Joachim ; Königsmarck, Maria Aurora · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source

Reinhard Keiser was a German opera composer based in Hamburg. He wrote over a hundred operas. Johann Adolf Scheibe considered him an equal to Johann Kuhnau, George Frideric Handel and Georg Philipp Telemann, but his work was largely forgotten for many decades.

Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Dates from Wikidata (CC0)

Who was born first?

Timeline

  1. Antoine Houdar de La MotteJanuary 17, 1672 – December 26, 1731
  2. Jacques Hotteterre le RomainSeptember 29, 1673 – July 16, 1763
  3. Jeremiah Clarkecirca 1674 – December 1, 1707
  4. Reinhard Keiser (this page)January 9, 1674 – September 12, 1739
  5. Evaristo Felice Dall'AbacoJuly 12, 1675 – July 12, 1742
  6. Louis-Nicolas ClérambaultDecember 19, 1676 – October 26, 1749

Related

Play a round with Music · Early modern
Reinhard Keiser (January 9, 1674 – September 12, 1739) · Which Happened First?