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Francesco Geminiani

1687 - 1762

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Francesco Xaverio Geminiani (baptised 5 December 1687 – 17 September 1762) was an Italian violinist, composer, and music theorist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Francesco Geminiani has received more than 165,290 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia. Francesco Geminiani is the 253rd most popular composer (down from 239th in 2019), the 1,147th most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,073rd in 2019) and the 56th most popular Italian Composer.

Francesco Geminiani is most famous for being a violinist and composer. He also wrote a violin method, which is still in use today.

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  • 170k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 61.63

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Francesco Geminiani ranks 253 out of 1,451. Before him are Otto Nicolai, Pierre Schaeffer, Jacques Ibert, Ambroise Thomas, Clemens Krauss, and Emmanuel Chabrier. After him are Marcel Dupré, Anton Reicha, Franz Xaver Gruber, Irving Berlin, Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, and Antonia Brico.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1687, Francesco Geminiani ranks 4. Before him are Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, John William Friso, Prince of Orange, and Balthasar Neumann. After him are Giambattista Pittoni, Sylvius Leopold Weiss, Johann Georg Pisendel, Anton Ulrich, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Johann Heinrich Schulze, Nicolaus I Bernoulli, Robert Simson, and William Stukeley. Among people deceased in 1762, Francesco Geminiani ranks 9. Before him are Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, Archduchess Maria Johanna Gabriela of Austria, Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille, Crown Prince Sado, James Bradley, and Emperor Momozono. After him are Princess Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Shah Waliullah Dehlawi, Jean Calas, Tobias Mayer, and Françoise-Louise de Warens.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Francesco Geminiani ranks 1,147 out of 5,161. Before him are Vladimir Bartol (1903), Ivanoe Bonomi (1873), Carlo Ginzburg (1939), Gillo Pontecorvo (1919), Carlo Rubbia (1934), and Constantina (325). After him are Constantius Gallus (325), Erasmo of Narni (1370), Bianca Cappello (1548), Saint Maurus (512), Gaius Claudius Glaber (-200), and Giampiero Boniperti (1928).

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Among COMPOSERS In Italy

Among composers born in Italy, Francesco Geminiani ranks 56. Before him are Gaspare Spontini (1774), Giacomo Carissimi (1605), Luigi Nono (1924), Antonio Caldara (1670), Benedetto Marcello (1686), and Francesco Durante (1684). After him are Gioseffo Zarlino (1517), Riccardo Broschi (1698), Antonio Lotti (1667), Giovanni Battista Sammartini (1700), Alessandro Stradella (1643), and Franco Alfano (1875).

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