COMPOSER

Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger

1580 - 1651

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Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger (also: Johann(es) Hieronymus Kapsberger or Giovanni Geronimo Kapsperger; c. 1580 – Rome 17 January 1651) was an Austrian-Italian virtuoso performer and composer of the early Baroque period. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger has received more than 97,348 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger is the 797th most popular composer (down from 770th in 2019), the 2,720th most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,520th in 2019) and the 138th most popular Italian Composer.

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.07

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger ranks 797 out of 1,451. Before him are Carlos Chávez, Johann Rosenmüller, Jan Václav Voříšek, Lodovico Grossi da Viadana, Alexander Spendiaryan, and Emil Paur. After him are Koji Kondo, Johann Caspar Kerll, Julius Röntgen, Aimeric de Peguilhan, Isaak Dunayevsky, and Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1580, Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger ranks 18. Before him are Andrea Falconieri, Bogislaw XIV, Duke of Pomerania, Ustad Ahmad Lahori, Pierre Vernier, Daniël Heinsius, and Gaspar de Borja y Velasco. After him are António de Andrade, Matei Basarab, Carlo Contarini, Julius Schiller, Thomas Middleton, and Elisabeth Magdalena of Pomerania. Among people deceased in 1651, Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger ranks 15. Before him are Virginia Centurione Bracelli, Ngawang Namgyal, Giulia Tofana, Jacob Adriaensz Backer, Cornelis de Vos, and Countess Amalie Elisabeth of Hanau-Münzenberg. After him are Henry Ireton, and Heinrich Albert.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger ranks 2,720 out of 5,161. Before him are Laura Biagiotti (1943), Antonio Ascari (1888), Federico Commandino (1509), Alice (1954), Joseph the Hymnographer (816), and Marco Cornaro (1285). After him are Nello Pagani (1911), Giovanni Fattori (1825), Galeazzo Alessi (1512), Ernesto Brambilla (1934), Giuseppe Colombo (1920), and Russell Bufalino (1903).

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Among COMPOSERS In Italy

Among composers born in Italy, Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger ranks 138. Before him are Giovanni Animuccia (1520), Francesco Manfredini (1684), Temistocle Solera (1815), Gaetano Pugnani (1731), Sigismondo d'India (1582), and Nicola Fago (1677). After him are Annibale Padovano (1527), Salvatore Sciarrino (1947), Marco da Gagliano (1582), Piero Piccioni (1921), Giovanni Artusi (1540), and Emanuele d'Astorga (1680).

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