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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 55,503 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Alessandro Striggio is the 932nd most popular composer, the 2,853rd most popular biography from Italy and the 151st most popular Italian Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Alessandro Striggio ranks 932 out of 1,216Before him are Vissarion Shebalin, Johann von Herbeck, Valentino Fioravanti, Friedrich Kiel, Ignaz Holzbauer, and Richard Addinsell. After him are Johann Joseph Abert, André Gedalge, Nannette Streicher, Girolamo Diruta, Sándor Végh, and Egberto Gismonti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1540, Alessandro Striggio ranks 23Before him are Ostilio Ricci, Simone Peterzano, Giovanni Artusi, Lady Katherine Grey, Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser, and Philips of Marnix, Lord of Saint-Aldegonde. After him is Edmund Campion. Among people deceased in 1592, Alessandro Striggio ranks 19Before him are Michiel Coxie, William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, Marc'Antonio Ingegneri, John Casimir of the Palatinate-Simmern, Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, and Moderata Fonte. After him are Girolamo Cassar and Robert Greene.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Alessandro Striggio ranks 2,853 out of 4,668Before him are Licia Albanese (1909), Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu (1963), Valentino Fioravanti (1764), Armando Castellazzi (1904), Giancarlo Minardi (1947), and Benedetto Cairoli (1825). After him are Davide Ghirlandaio (1452), Anna Morandi Manzolini (1714), Girolamo Diruta (1554), Nicolò Tron (1399), Giovanni della Casa (1503), and Frances Xavier Cabrini (1850).

Among COMPOSERS In Italy

Among composers born in Italy, Alessandro Striggio ranks 151Before him are Michele Carafa (1787), Franco Donatoni (1927), Francesco Araja (1709), Gian Carlo Menotti (1911), Attilio Ariosti (1666), and Valentino Fioravanti (1764). After him are Girolamo Diruta (1554), Carlo Rustichelli (1916), Nicola Vicentino (1511), Pietro Filippo Scarlatti (1679), Lorenzo Perosi (1872), and Nicola Piovani (1946).