COMPOSER

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 142,534 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia. Giovanni Battista Sammartini is the 283rd most popular composer (up from 289th in 2019), the 1,286th most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,240th in 2019) and the 60th 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 283 out of 1,451. Before him are Anton Arensky, Uzeyir Hajibeyov, Louis-Claude Daquin, Franz Xaver Süssmayr, Rodolphe Kreutzer, and Antonio Lotti. After him are Alessandro Stradella, Martin Agricola, Johann Jakob Froberger, Johann van Beethoven, Hugo Alfvén, and Friedrich Kuhlau.

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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, Johann Christoph Gottsched, Clemens August of Bavaria, Charlotte Aglaé d'Orléans, 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 Prithvi Narayan Shah, Paul of the Cross, Louise Élisabeth de Bourbon, Zahir al-Umar, Christian IV, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Peter August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, François-Hubert Drouais, and Ahmad Shah Bahadur.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giovanni Battista Sammartini ranks 1,286 out of 5,161. Before him are Adolfo Celi (1922), Cornelius Gallus (-69), Iullus Antonius (-43), Agrippa Postumus (-12), Antonio Lotti (1667), and Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (1920). After him are Irnerius (1050), Archduke Rainer Joseph of Austria (1783), Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1870), Archduchess Maria Clementina of Austria (1777), Alessandro Stradella (1643), and Princess Maria Clotilde of Savoy (1843).

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Among COMPOSERS In Italy

Among composers born in Italy, Giovanni Battista Sammartini ranks 60. Before him are Benedetto Marcello (1686), Francesco Durante (1684), Francesco Geminiani (1687), Gioseffo Zarlino (1517), Riccardo Broschi (1698), and Antonio Lotti (1667). After him are Alessandro Stradella (1643), Franco Alfano (1875), Niccolò Jommelli (1714), Leonardo Leo (1694), Francesco Cilea (1866), and Giovanni Bononcini (1670).

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