COMPOSER

Giacomo Puccini

1858 - 1924

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Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (22 December 1858 – 29 November 1924) was an Italian composer known primarily for his operas. Regarded as the greatest and most successful proponent of Italian opera after Verdi, he was descended from a long line of composers, stemming from the late Baroque era. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giacomo Puccini has received more than 3,356,967 page views. His biography is available in 121 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 116 in 2019). Giacomo Puccini is the 16th most popular composer (down from 13th in 2019), the 34th most popular biography from Italy (up from 35th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Italian Composer.

Giacomo Puccini is most famous for composing operas, such as "La Boheme" and "Tosca."

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 81.39

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 121

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 14.59

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.72

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Giacomo Puccini ranks 16 out of 1,451. Before him are George Frideric Handel, Robert Schumann, Antonín Dvořák, Gustav Mahler, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and Johannes Brahms. After him are Edvard Grieg, Gioachino Rossini, Felix Mendelssohn, Georges Bizet, Claudio Monteverdi, and Igor Stravinsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1858, Giacomo Puccini ranks 3. Before him are Max Planck, and Émile Durkheim. After him are Selma Lagerlöf, Theodore Roosevelt, Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, Gustaf V of Sweden, Rudolf Diesel, Georg Simmel, Omar Mukhtar, Emmeline Pankhurst, and Giuseppe Peano. Among people deceased in 1924, Giacomo Puccini ranks 3. Before him are Vladimir Lenin, and Franz Kafka. After him are Anatole France, Woodrow Wilson, Joseph Conrad, Louis Sullivan, Alfred Marshall, Gabriel Fauré, Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria, Carl Spitteler, and Frances Hodgson Burnett.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giacomo Puccini ranks 34 out of 5,161. Before him are Sandro Botticelli (1445), Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor (1768), Caligula (12), Alessandro Volta (1745), Horace (-65), and Parmenides (-501). After him are Niccolò Paganini (1782), Maria Montessori (1870), Titian (1488), Lorenzo de' Medici (1449), Silvio Berlusconi (1936), and Pontius Pilate (-12).

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Among COMPOSERS In Italy

Among composers born in Italy, Giacomo Puccini ranks 3. Before him are Antonio Vivaldi (1678), and Giuseppe Verdi (1813). After him are Gioachino Rossini (1792), Claudio Monteverdi (1567), 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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