COMPOSER

Antonio Salieri

1750 - 1825

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Antonio Salieri (18 August 1750 – 7 May 1825) was an Italian composer and teacher of the classical period. He was born in Legnago, south of Verona, in the Republic of Venice, and spent his adult life and career as a subject of the Habsburg monarchy. Salieri was a pivotal figure in the development of late 18th-century opera. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Antonio Salieri has received more than 3,795,316 page views. His biography is available in 65 different languages on Wikipedia. Antonio Salieri is the 53rd most popular composer (down from 27th in 2019), the 212th most popular biography from Italy (down from 84th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Italian Composer.

Antonio Salieri is most famous for being the composer of many operas and symphonies, including "The Marriage of Figaro."

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  • 3.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 74.06

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 65

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.91

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Antonio Salieri ranks 53 out of 1,451. Before him are Vincenzo Bellini, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Aram Khachaturian, Tomaso Albinoni, Domenico Scarlatti, and Camille Saint-Saëns. After him are Orlande de Lassus, Carl Orff, Erik Satie, Georg Philipp Telemann, Arnold Schoenberg, and Vangelis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1750, Antonio Salieri ranks 1. After him are Letizia Ramolino, Ali Pasha of Ioannina, Tipu Sultan, Caroline Herschel, Frederick Augustus I of Saxony, Archduchess Maria Johanna Gabriela of Austria, Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Francisco de Miranda, Heshen, Murad Bey, and Maria Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Massa. Among people deceased in 1825, Antonio Salieri ranks 3. Before him are Alexander I of Russia, and Jacques-Louis David. After him are Henri de Saint-Simon, Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria, Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies, Eli Whitney, Pauline Bonaparte, Jean Paul, Henry Fuseli, Dmitry Bortniansky, and Laskarina Bouboulina.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Antonio Salieri ranks 212 out of 5,161. Before him are Livia (-58), Boethius (480), Pompey (-106), Servius Tullius (-600), Pope Clement IX (1600), and Pope Celestine I (400). After him are Pope Urban III (1200), Pope Gregory VIII (1100), Pope Benedict XIV (1675), Pope Martin V (1369), Gerolamo Cardano (1501), and Pope Clement XIII (1693).

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Among COMPOSERS In Italy

Among composers born in Italy, Antonio Salieri ranks 13. Before him are Guido of Arezzo (991), Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632), Gaetano Donizetti (1797), Vincenzo Bellini (1801), Tomaso Albinoni (1671), and Domenico Scarlatti (1685). After him are Alessandro Scarlatti (1660), Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710), Nino Rota (1911), Luigi Cherubini (1760), Luigi Boccherini (1743), and Pietro Mascagni (1863).

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