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Gioachino Rossini

1792 - 1868

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Gioachino Antonio Rossini (29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian composer who gained fame for his 39 operas, although he also wrote many songs, some chamber music and piano pieces and some sacred music. He set new standards for both comic and serious opera before retiring from large-scale composition while still in his thirties, at the height of his popularity. Born in Pesaro to parents who were both musicians (his father a trumpeter, his mother a singer), Rossini began to compose by the age of twelve and was educated at music school in Bologna. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gioachino Rossini has received more than 2,436,919 page views. His biography is available in 85 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 83 in 2019). Gioachino Rossini is the 18th most popular composer (down from 17th in 2019), the 46th most popular biography from Italy (down from 44th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Italian Composer.

Gioachino Rossini is most famous for his operas, which include The Barber of Seville, The Italian Girl in Algiers, and The Siege of Corinth.

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  • 79.74

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 85

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 14.36

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.04

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Gioachino Rossini ranks 18 out of 1,451. Before him are Antonín Dvořák, Gustav Mahler, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Johannes Brahms, Giacomo Puccini, and Edvard Grieg. After him are Felix Mendelssohn, Georges Bizet, Claudio Monteverdi, Igor Stravinsky, Ennio Morricone, and Sergei Rachmaninoff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1792, Gioachino Rossini ranks 1. After him are Pope Pius IX, Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, William II of the Netherlands, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Nikolai Lobachevsky, John Herschel, Karl Ernst von Baer, Caroline Augusta of Bavaria, Alexander Ypsilantis, Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, and William, Duke of Nassau. Among people deceased in 1868, Gioachino Rossini ranks 1. After him are Léon Foucault, James Buchanan, August Ferdinand Möbius, Ludwig I of Bavaria, Mongkut, August Schleicher, Alexandre Colonna-Walewski, Okita Sōji, William T. G. Morton, Mihailo Obrenović, and David Brewster.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Gioachino Rossini ranks 46 out of 5,161. Before him are Pontius Pilate (-12), Pope John Paul I (1912), Tiberius (-42), Donatello (1386), Florence Nightingale (1820), and Empedocles (-490). After him are Evangelista Torricelli (1608), Pope Pius IX (1792), Pope John XXIII (1881), Fibonacci (1170), Pope Leo XIII (1810), and Giacomo Casanova (1725).

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Among COMPOSERS In Italy

Among composers born in Italy, Gioachino Rossini ranks 4. Before him are Antonio Vivaldi (1678), Giuseppe Verdi (1813), and Giacomo Puccini (1858). After him are 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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