COMPOSER

Gregorio Allegri

1582 - 1652

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Gregorio Allegri (c. 14 January 1582 – 17 February 1652) was an Italian Catholic priest and composer of the Roman School and brother of Domenico Allegri; he was also a singer. He was born and died in Rome. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gregorio Allegri has received more than 354,824 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia. Gregorio Allegri is the 114th most popular composer (up from 144th in 2019), the 565th most popular biography from Italy (up from 675th in 2019) and the 24th most popular Italian Composer.

Allegri is most famous for his composition, "Miserere mei, Deus" which is also known as the "Gregorian Chant."

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 12.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Gregorio Allegri ranks 114 out of 1,451. Before him are Carlo Gesualdo, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Giulio Caccini, Joaquín Rodrigo, Mily Balakirev, and Arthur Honegger. After him are Francisco Tárrega, György Ligeti, Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, Fanny Mendelssohn, Heitor Villa-Lobos, and Muzio Clementi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1582, Gregorio Allegri ranks 2. Before him is Frans Hals. After him are Taichang Emperor, Dmitry of Uglich, Şehzade Mahmud, Giovanni Lanfranco, George, Duke of Brunswick-Calenberg, Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny, Bartolomeo Manfredi, John Frederick, Duke of Württemberg, Magdalene of Brandenburg, and Stephen Pongracz. Among people deceased in 1652, Gregorio Allegri ranks 3. Before him are Jusepe de Ribera, and Georges de La Tour. After him are Jacob De la Gardie, John Casimir, Count Palatine of Kleeburg, Pietro Della Valle, Inigo Jones, Jan Asselijn, Jan Dirksz Both, Charles Amadeus, Duke of Nemours, Denis Pétau, and Johann von Werth.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Gregorio Allegri ranks 565 out of 5,161. Before him are Maria Luisa of Parma (1751), Gentile Bellini (1429), Bonaventura Cavalieri (1598), Denis (210), Philip of Swabia (1177), and Benedetto Croce (1866). After him are Giacomo Leopardi (1798), Propertius (-50), Claudio Ranieri (1951), Fausto Cercignani (1941), Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720), and Marcus Furius Camillus (-446).

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Among COMPOSERS In Italy

Among composers born in Italy, Gregorio Allegri ranks 24. Before him are Luigi Boccherini (1743), Pietro Mascagni (1863), Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857), Jacopo Peri (1561), Carlo Gesualdo (1566), and Giulio Caccini (1551). After him are Muzio Clementi (1752), Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583), Domenico Cimarosa (1749), Giovanni Gabrieli (1557), Ottorino Respighi (1879), and Vincenzo Galilei (1520).

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