COMPOSER

Claudio Monteverdi

1567 - 1643

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Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (baptized 15 May 1567 – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, choirmaster and string player. A composer of both secular and sacred music, and a pioneer in the development of opera, he is considered a crucial transitional figure between the Renaissance and Baroque periods of music history. Born in Cremona, where he undertook his first musical studies and compositions, Monteverdi developed his career first at the court of Mantua (c. 1590–1613) and then until his death in the Republic of Venice where he was maestro di cappella at the basilica of San Marco. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Claudio Monteverdi has received more than 1,802,899 page views. His biography is available in 74 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 72 in 2019). Claudio Monteverdi is the 21st most popular composer, the 67th most popular biography from Italy (down from 54th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Italian Composer.

Claudio Monteverdi is most famous for his opera "L'Orfeo" which was one of the first operas ever written.

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  • 74

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  • 14.38

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.85

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Claudio Monteverdi ranks 21 out of 1,451. Before him are Johannes Brahms, Giacomo Puccini, Edvard Grieg, Gioachino Rossini, Felix Mendelssohn, and Georges Bizet. After him are Igor Stravinsky, Ennio Morricone, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Claude Debussy, Bedřich Smetana, and Dmitri Shostakovich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1567, Claudio Monteverdi ranks 1. After him are Francis de Sales, Maurice, Prince of Orange, Date Masamune, Samuel de Champlain, Willem Schouten, Infanta Catherine Michelle of Spain, Jacques Clément, Sanada Yukimura, Eleanor de' Medici, Jindřich Matyáš Thurn, and Jacob van Heemskerck. Among people deceased in 1643, Claudio Monteverdi ranks 2. Before him is Louis XIII of France. After him are Hong Taiji, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Sophia Brahe, Paul Guldin, François Duquesnoy, Hendrik Brouwer, Giovanni Baglione, Benedetto Castelli, Jean du Vergier de Hauranne, and Herman Wrangel.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Claudio Monteverdi ranks 67 out of 5,161. Before him are Saint Valentine (226), Guglielmo Marconi (1874), Ötzi (-3345), Vespasian (9), Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (1194), and Federico Fellini (1920). After him are Pope Innocent VII (1339), Pope Julius II (1443), Sophia Loren (1934), Luciano Pavarotti (1935), Titus (41), and Lucrezia Borgia (1480).

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Among COMPOSERS In Italy

Among composers born in Italy, Claudio Monteverdi ranks 5. Before him are Antonio Vivaldi (1678), Giuseppe Verdi (1813), Giacomo Puccini (1858), and Gioachino Rossini (1792). After him are Ennio Morricone (1928), Guido of Arezzo (991), Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632), Gaetano Donizetti (1797), Vincenzo Bellini (1801), Tomaso Albinoni (1671), and Domenico Scarlatti (1685).

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