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Giovanni Battista Sammartini

1700 - 1775

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Giovanni Battista Sammartini (c. 1700 – 15 January 1775) was an Italian composer, violinist, organist, choirmaster and teacher. He counted Gluck among his students, and was highly regarded by younger composers including Johann Christian Bach. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giovanni Battista Sammartini has received more than 136,269 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Giovanni Battista Sammartini is the 289th most popular composer (down from 279th in 2019), the 1,243rd most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,187th in 2019) and the 59th most popular Italian Composer.

Giovanni Battista Sammartini is most famous for being one of the first composers to write symphonies.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Giovanni Battista Sammartini ranks 289 out of 1,216. Before him are Stanisław Moniuszko, Nikolai Myaskovsky, Eduard Hanslick, Charles Ives, Julius Fučík, and Nicolaus Bruhns. After him are Alan Silvestri, Jacques Arcadelt, Antonio Soler, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Bernard Herrmann, and Gustave Charpentier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1700, Giovanni Battista Sammartini ranks 6. Before him are Daniel Bernoulli, Baal Shem Tov, Charles Frederick, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, and Nicolaus Zinzendorf. After him are Sophie Magdalene of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, Ewald Georg von Kleist, Gerard van Swieten, Charlotte Aglaé d'Orléans, Johann Christoph Gottsched, and Jean-Antoine Nollet. Among people deceased in 1775, Giovanni Battista Sammartini ranks 4. Before him are Yemelyan Pugachev, Caroline Matilda of Great Britain, and Empress Xiaoyichun. After him are Paul of the Cross, Louise Élisabeth de Bourbon, Prithvi Narayan Shah, Christian IV, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Peter August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, John Baskerville, Ahmad Shah Bahadur, and Richard Montgomery.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giovanni Battista Sammartini ranks 1,243 out of 4,668. Before him are Antipope Honorius II (1010), Stefano di Giovanni (1392), Ascanio Sobrero (1812), Angelo Secchi (1818), Maria Teresa of Savoy (1803), and Luigi Einaudi (1874). After him are Maria Beatrice of Savoy (1792), Calpurnia (-77), Maria Theresa of Austria (1767), Stefania Sandrelli (1946), Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus (-220), and Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (-2).

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Among COMPOSERS In Italy

Among composers born in Italy, Giovanni Battista Sammartini ranks 59. Before him are Alessandro Stradella (1643), Niccolò Jommelli (1714), Gioseffo Zarlino (1517), Leonardo Vinci (1690), Gaspare Spontini (1774), and Ferdinando Carulli (1770). After him are Saverio Mercadante (1795), Andrea Luchesi (1741), Giovanni Bottesini (1821), Leonardo Leo (1694), Pietro Della Valle (1586), and Franco Alfano (1875).

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