1797 - 1848
Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (29 November 1797 – 8 April 1848) was an Italian composer, best known for his almost 70 operas. Along with Gioachino Rossini and Vincenzo Bellini, he was a leading composer of the bel canto opera style during the first half of the nineteenth century and a probable influence on other composers such as Giuseppe Verdi. Donizetti was born in Bergamo in Lombardy. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gaetano Donizetti has received more than 898,643 page views. His biography is available in 67 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 66 in 2019). Gaetano Donizetti is the 44th most popular composer (up from 48th in 2019), the 153rd most popular biography from Italy (down from 151st in 2019) and the 9th most popular Italian Composer.
Gaetano Donizetti was an Italian composer who is most famous for his operas.
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Among composers, Gaetano Donizetti ranks 44 out of 1,216. Before him are Modest Mussorgsky, Jean Sibelius, Béla Bartók, Camille Saint-Saëns, Guido of Arezzo, and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. After him are Tomaso Albinoni, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Carl Maria von Weber, Erik Satie, Anton Bruckner, and Carl Orff.
1839 - 1881
HPI: 76.35
Rank: 38
1865 - 1957
HPI: 76.20
Rank: 39
1881 - 1945
HPI: 76.16
Rank: 40
1835 - 1921
HPI: 76.03
Rank: 41
991 - 1050
HPI: 75.43
Rank: 42
1844 - 1908
HPI: 75.40
Rank: 43
1797 - 1848
HPI: 75.19
Rank: 44
1671 - 1751
HPI: 75.16
Rank: 45
1632 - 1687
HPI: 75.10
Rank: 46
1786 - 1826
HPI: 75.05
Rank: 47
1866 - 1925
HPI: 74.99
Rank: 48
1824 - 1896
HPI: 74.74
Rank: 49
1895 - 1982
HPI: 74.68
Rank: 50
Among people born in 1797, Gaetano Donizetti ranks 5. Before him are Franz Schubert, William I, German Emperor, Heinrich Heine, and Mary Shelley. After him are Shamil, 3rd Imam of Dagestan, Adolphe Thiers, Hiroshige, Joseph Henry, Charles Lyell, Ghalib, and Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany. Among people deceased in 1848, Gaetano Donizetti ranks 2. Before him is Jöns Jacob Berzelius. After him are George Stephenson, Emily Brontë, François-René de Chateaubriand, John Quincy Adams, Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt, Christian VIII of Denmark, Bernard Bolzano, Caroline Herschel, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, and María Isabella of Spain.
1797 - 1828
HPI: 85.86
Rank: 1
1797 - 1888
HPI: 78.55
Rank: 2
1797 - 1856
HPI: 77.71
Rank: 3
1797 - 1851
HPI: 75.95
Rank: 4
1797 - 1848
HPI: 75.19
Rank: 5
1797 - 1871
HPI: 70.10
Rank: 6
1797 - 1877
HPI: 69.05
Rank: 7
1797 - 1858
HPI: 68.16
Rank: 8
1797 - 1878
HPI: 67.88
Rank: 9
1797 - 1875
HPI: 66.60
Rank: 10
1797 - 1869
HPI: 65.21
Rank: 11
1797 - 1870
HPI: 64.28
Rank: 12
1779 - 1848
HPI: 75.59
Rank: 1
1797 - 1848
HPI: 75.19
Rank: 2
1781 - 1848
HPI: 74.92
Rank: 3
1818 - 1848
HPI: 74.27
Rank: 4
1768 - 1848
HPI: 72.88
Rank: 5
1767 - 1848
HPI: 69.92
Rank: 6
1789 - 1848
HPI: 68.64
Rank: 7
1786 - 1848
HPI: 67.97
Rank: 8
1781 - 1848
HPI: 67.00
Rank: 9
1750 - 1848
HPI: 65.97
Rank: 10
1779 - 1848
HPI: 64.45
Rank: 11
1789 - 1848
HPI: 63.92
Rank: 12
Among people born in Italy, Gaetano Donizetti ranks 153 out of 4,668. Before him are Pope Alexander VIII (1610), Pope Pius II (1405), Clare of Assisi (1193), Agnes of Rome (291), Pope Leo XII (1760), and John Bosco (1815). After him are Pope Pius VI (1717), Gina Lollobrigida (1927), Tomaso Albinoni (1671), Marcello Mastroianni (1924), Pope Leo XI (1535), and Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922).
1610 - 1691
HPI: 75.30
Rank: 147
1405 - 1464
HPI: 75.30
Rank: 148
1193 - 1253
HPI: 75.27
Rank: 149
291 - 305
HPI: 75.26
Rank: 150
1760 - 1829
HPI: 75.21
Rank: 151
1815 - 1888
HPI: 75.20
Rank: 152
1797 - 1848
HPI: 75.19
Rank: 153
1717 - 1799
HPI: 75.18
Rank: 154
1927 - 2023
HPI: 75.16
Rank: 155
1671 - 1751
HPI: 75.16
Rank: 156
1924 - 1996
HPI: 75.16
Rank: 157
1535 - 1605
HPI: 75.15
Rank: 158
1922 - 1975
HPI: 75.12
Rank: 159
Among composers born in Italy, Gaetano Donizetti ranks 9. Before him are Giacomo Puccini (1858), Gioachino Rossini (1792), Claudio Monteverdi (1567), Ennio Morricone (1928), Antonio Salieri (1750), and Guido of Arezzo (991). After him are Tomaso Albinoni (1671), Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632), Domenico Scarlatti (1685), Vincenzo Bellini (1801), Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710), and Alessandro Scarlatti (1660).
1858 - 1924
HPI: 81.74
Rank: 3
1792 - 1868
HPI: 80.22
Rank: 4
1567 - 1643
HPI: 79.43
Rank: 5
1928 - 2020
HPI: 78.13
Rank: 6
1750 - 1825
HPI: 78.00
Rank: 7
991 - 1050
HPI: 75.43
Rank: 8
1797 - 1848
HPI: 75.19
Rank: 9
1671 - 1751
HPI: 75.16
Rank: 10
1632 - 1687
HPI: 75.10
Rank: 11
1685 - 1757
HPI: 74.29
Rank: 12
1801 - 1835
HPI: 74.28
Rank: 13
1710 - 1736
HPI: 72.37
Rank: 14
1660 - 1725
HPI: 71.99
Rank: 15