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Gioseffo Zarlino

1517 - 1590

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Gioseffo Zarlino (31 January or 22 March 1517 – 4 February 1590) was an Italian music theorist and composer of the Renaissance. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gioseffo Zarlino has received more than 107,989 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Gioseffo Zarlino is the 260th most popular composer (down from 242nd in 2019), the 1,158th most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,084th in 2019) and the 55th most popular Italian Composer.

Gioseffo Zarlino was a composer and music theorist who is most famous for his book "The Art of Counterpoint" which was published in 1558.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Gioseffo Zarlino ranks 260 out of 1,216Before him are Alessandro Stradella, Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Irving Berlin, Niccolò Jommelli, and Ernst von Dohnányi. After him are Leonardo Vinci, Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, Dmitry Bortniansky, Max Steiner, Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, and André Grétry.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1517, Gioseffo Zarlino ranks 3Before him are Gotthard Kettler and Emperor Ōgimachi. After him are Francis I, Duke of Lorraine, Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, Li Shizhen, Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk, Pierre Belon, Rembert Dodoens, Peter Ernst I von Mansfeld-Vorderort, Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, and Jacques Pelletier du Mans. Among people deceased in 1590, Gioseffo Zarlino ranks 8Before him are Pope Sixtus V, Charles II, Archduke of Austria, Ambroise Paré, Christina of Denmark, Archduchess Anna of Austria, and Bernardino de Sahagún. After him are Francis Walsingham, Charles de Bourbon, Archduchess Magdalena of Austria, Giambattista Benedetti, Leone Leoni, and Maddalena Casulana.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Gioseffo Zarlino ranks 1,158 out of 4,668Before him are Titus Pomponius Atticus (-110), Marcus Claudius Marcellus (-42), Julia Drusilla (39), Veronica Franco (1546), Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti (1774), and Niccolò Jommelli (1714). After him are Franco Corelli (1921), Pope Leo VIII (900), Leonardo Vinci (1690), Taddeo Gaddi (1290), Saint Silvia (515), and Palma Vecchio (1480).

Among COMPOSERS In Italy

Among composers born in Italy, Gioseffo Zarlino ranks 55Before him are Riccardo Broschi (1698), Giacomo Carissimi (1605), Francesco Geminiani (1687), Luigi Nono (1924), Alessandro Stradella (1643), and Niccolò Jommelli (1714). After him are Leonardo Vinci (1690), Gaspare Spontini (1774), Ferdinando Carulli (1770), Giovanni Battista Sammartini (1700), Saverio Mercadante (1795), and Andrea Luchesi (1741).