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Francesco Maria Veracini

1690 - 1768

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Francesco Maria Veracini (1 February 1690 – 31 October 1768) was an Italian composer and violinist, perhaps best known for his sets of violin sonatas. As a composer, according to Manfred Bukofzer, "His individual, if not subjective, style has no precedent in baroque music and clearly heralds the end of the entire era", while Luigi Torchi maintained that "he rescued the imperiled music of the eighteenth century", His contemporary, Charles Burney, held that "he had certainly a great share of whim and caprice, but he built his freaks on a good foundation, being an excellent contrapuntist". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Francesco Maria Veracini has received more than 119,365 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Francesco Maria Veracini is the 519th most popular composer (down from 438th in 2019), the 1,952nd most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,690th in 2019) and the 99th most popular Italian Composer.

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  • 120k

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  • 56.54

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.09

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.88

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Francesco Maria Veracini ranks 519 out of 1,451. Before him are Alexandre Guilmant, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Carmine Coppola, Carl Friedrich Zelter, Danny Elfman, and Jacob Clemens non Papa. After him are Curt Sachs, Sebastián Iradier, Manos Hatzidakis, Fredrik Pacius, Jean-Féry Rebel, and Hans Swarowsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1690, Francesco Maria Veracini ranks 7. Before him are Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia, Christian Goldbach, Leonardo Vinci, Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, Ernst Johann von Biron, and Nicolas Lancret. After him are Victor Amadeus I, Prince of Carignano, Joseph Johann Adam, Prince of Liechtenstein, Patrona Halil, Edward Low, Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, and Peter Tordenskjold. Among people deceased in 1768, Francesco Maria Veracini ranks 9. Before him are Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Laurence Sterne, Nicola Porpora, Georg Brandt, Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, and Hermann Samuel Reimarus. After him are Louis Alexandre, Prince of Lamballe, Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, François de Cuvilliés, Michel Blavet, and Alexey Bestuzhev-Ryumin.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Francesco Maria Veracini ranks 1,952 out of 5,161. Before him are Mia Martini (1947), Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro (1853), Carlo Maria Martini (1927), Isa Miranda (1909), Renato Martino (1932), and Bonanno Pisano (1150). After him are Andrew Avellino (1521), Daniele De Rossi (1983), Saint Fabiola (400), Leopoldo de' Medici (1617), Piero Taruffi (1906), and Marco Minghetti (1818).

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Among COMPOSERS In Italy

Among composers born in Italy, Francesco Maria Veracini ranks 99. Before him are Antonio Sacchini (1730), Giuseppe Sarti (1729), Gian Francesco Malipiero (1882), Agostino Steffani (1654), Maddalena Casulana (1544), and Giuseppe Gazzaniga (1743). After him are Luigi Rossi (1597), Pietro Nardini (1722), Riccardo Drigo (1846), Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895), Ferdinando Paer (1771), and Tommaso Traetta (1727).

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