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Alessandro Striggio

1540 - 1592

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Alessandro Striggio (c. 1536/1537 – 29 February 1592) was an Italian composer, instrumentalist and diplomat of the Renaissance. He composed numerous madrigals as well as dramatic music, and by combining the two, became the inventor of madrigal comedy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alessandro Striggio has received more than 59,013 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Alessandro Striggio is the 1,043rd most popular composer (down from 931st in 2019), the 3,304th most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,847th in 2019) and the 169th most popular Italian Composer.

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  • 59k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.82

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.95

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.88

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Alessandro Striggio ranks 1,043 out of 1,451. Before him are Siegmund von Hausegger, Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, Ludvig Norman, Adolf Wiklund, Antoine Duhamel, and Hubert Parry. After him are Jón Leifs, Kalevi Aho, Manuel Cardoso, Jāzeps Vītols, Otto Jahn, and Gustav Lange.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1540, Alessandro Striggio ranks 28. Before him are Lady Katherine Grey, Philips of Marnix, Lord of Saint-Aldegonde, Giovanni Artusi, Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser, Michael Rohoza, and Edmund Campion. After him are ʽAbd al-Qadir Badayuni, and Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone. Among people deceased in 1592, Alessandro Striggio ranks 24. Before him are Marc'Antonio Ingegneri, Moderata Fonte, John VII, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Dorothea Susanne of Simmern, Sibylle of Saxony, and Girolamo Cassar. After him are Dirck Barendsz, and Robert Greene.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Alessandro Striggio ranks 3,304 out of 5,161. Before him are Rino Gaetano (1950), Girolamo Mei (1519), Titus Didius (-200), Francesco Tamagno (1850), Tullio Pinelli (1908), and Dorian Gray (1931). After him are Aulus Postumius Albus Regillensis (-600), Fausto Gresini (1961), Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu (1963), Vittoria Farnese (1618), Luca Badoer (1971), and Claudia Muzio (1889).

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Among COMPOSERS In Italy

Among composers born in Italy, Alessandro Striggio ranks 169. Before him are Renzo Rossellini (1908), Giovanni Maria Nanino (1544), Franco Faccio (1840), Alessandro Grandi (1586), Lorenzo Perosi (1872), and Gioseffo Guami (1542). After him are Marcello Abbado (1926), Sylvano Bussotti (1931), Francesco Antonio Vallotti (1697), Dario Marianelli (1963), Detto Mariano (1937), and Cecilia Seghizzi (1908).

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