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Giovanni Bononcini

1670 - 1747

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Giovanni Bononcini (or Buononcini) (18 July 1670 – 9 July 1747) (sometimes cited also as Giovanni Battista Bononcini) was an Italian Baroque composer, cellist, singer and teacher, one of a family of string players and composers. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giovanni Bononcini has received more than 123,922 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Giovanni Bononcini is the 319th most popular composer (up from 332nd in 2019), the 1,408th most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,361st in 2019) and the 66th most popular Italian Composer.

Giovanni Bononcini is most famous for his operas and his sonatas.

Memorability Metrics

  • 120k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 65.50

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Giovanni Bononcini ranks 319 out of 1,451. Before him are Niccolò Jommelli, Leonardo Leo, Francesco Cilea, Valentyn Sylvestrov, Franz Benda, and Vincent d'Indy. After him are Paul Abraham, Saverio Mercadante, Pierre De Geyter, Charles Ives, Sylvius Leopold Weiss, and Johann Adam Reincken.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1670, Giovanni Bononcini ranks 7. Before him are Augustus II the Strong, Bernard Mandeville, Antonio Caldara, Countess Palatine Dorothea Sophie of Neuburg, John Toland, and Louis Auguste, Duke of Maine. After him are James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, Abigail Masham, Baroness Masham, Maria Margaretha Kirch, Gustav, Duke of Zweibrücken, Danilo I, Metropolitan of Cetinje, and Zheng Keshuang. Among people deceased in 1747, Giovanni Bononcini ranks 9. Before him are Alain-René Lesage, Alessandro Marcello, Catherine Opalińska, Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, Philip Johan von Strahlenberg, and Princess Christine Louise of Oettingen-Oettingen. After him are Giuseppe Crespi, Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, Francesco Solimena, Karl Leopold, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Jean-Féry Rebel.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giovanni Bononcini ranks 1,408 out of 5,161. Before him are Mariotto Albertinelli (1474), Andrew, Duke of Calabria (1327), Cornelia (-97), Norberto Bobbio (1909), Giovanni Sforza (1466), and Arsenius the Great (354). After him are Mario Bava (1914), Lucrezia de' Medici, Duchess of Ferrara (1545), Amadeus II, Count of Savoy (1050), Giuliano Amato (1938), Marco Ferreri (1928), and Antipope Honorius II (1010).

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Among COMPOSERS In Italy

Among composers born in Italy, Giovanni Bononcini ranks 66. Before him are Giovanni Battista Sammartini (1700), Alessandro Stradella (1643), Franco Alfano (1875), Niccolò Jommelli (1714), Leonardo Leo (1694), and Francesco Cilea (1866). After him are Saverio Mercadante (1795), Ferdinando Carulli (1770), Giovanni Bottesini (1821), Pietro Della Valle (1586), Luca Marenzio (1553), and Alfredo Casella (1883).

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