COMPOSER

Francesco Araja

1709 - 1770

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Francesco Domenico Araja (or Araia, Russian: Арайя) (June 25, 1709 in Naples, Kingdom of Sicily – between 1762 and 1770 in Bologna, States of the Church) was an Italian composer who spent 25 years in Russia and wrote at least 14 operas for the Russian Imperial Court including Tsefal i Prokris, the first opera in Russian. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Francesco Araja has received more than 35,435 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Francesco Araja is the 947th most popular composer (down from 909th in 2019), the 3,055th most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,800th in 2019) and the 153rd most popular Italian Composer.

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  • 35k

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  • 57.84

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.06

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.74

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Francesco Araja ranks 947 out of 1,451. Before him are Heinrich Albert, Bojan Adamič, Errico Petrella, William Christie, Mikael Tariverdiev, and Arnold Mendelssohn. After him are Felice Anerio, Napoléon Henri Reber, Chiquinha Gonzaga, Italo Montemezzi, Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély, and Guy Ropartz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1709, Francesco Araja ranks 20. Before him are Charles de Brosses, Johann Georg Gmelin, Franz Xaver Richter, Étienne de Silhouette, Giovanni Domenico Maraldi, and John Cleland. After him are Antonio Rinaldi, Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, Ernst Ludwig II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Molla Vali Vidadi, and Charles Avison. Among people deceased in 1770, Francesco Araja ranks 15. Before him are Jean-Antoine Nollet, George Grenville, Martin van Meytens, George Whitefield, James Stirling, and Carl Gustaf Tessin. After him are Georg Dionysius Ehret, Charles Avison, Christopher Middleton, Mark Akenside, and Crispus Attucks.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Francesco Araja ranks 3,055 out of 5,161. Before him are Giacomo Ceruti (1698), Giuseppe Versaldi (1943), Domitia (null), Giovanni Galli (1958), Alessandro Tassoni (1565), and Lorenzo Priuli (1489). After him are Felice Anerio (1560), Nicolò Marcello (1397), Domenico II Contarini (1585), Gaius Nymphidius Sabinus (100), Giusto de' Menabuoi (1330), and Antonio Rinaldi (1709).

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Among COMPOSERS In Italy

Among composers born in Italy, Francesco Araja ranks 153. Before him are Michele Carafa (1787), Antonio Bertali (1605), Alberto Franchetti (1860), Carlo Rustichelli (1916), Jacopo da Bologna (1340), and Errico Petrella (1813). After him are Felice Anerio (1560), Italo Montemezzi (1875), Nicola Vicentino (1511), Attilio Ariosti (1666), Ludwig Thuille (1861), and Girolamo Diruta (1554).

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