COMPOSER

Guido of Arezzo

991 - 1050

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Guido of Arezzo (Italian: Guido d'Arezzo; c. 991–992 – after 1033) was an Italian music theorist and pedagogue of High medieval music. A Benedictine monk, he is regarded as the inventor—or by some, developer—of the modern staff notation that had a massive influence on the development of Western musical notation and practice. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Guido of Arezzo has received more than 654,040 page views. His biography is available in 57 different languages on Wikipedia. Guido of Arezzo is the 34th most popular composer (up from 42nd in 2019), the 122nd most popular biography from Italy (up from 141st in 2019) and the 7th most popular Italian Composer.

Guglielmo da Pisa, known as Guido of Arezzo, was a medieval Italian music theorist and composer. He is most famous for inventing the Guidonian hand, a system of musical notation that uses lines and spaces between staves to indicate pitch.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Guido of Arezzo ranks 34 out of 1,451. Before him are Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Jacques Offenbach, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Maurice Ravel, Hector Berlioz, and Richard Strauss. After him are Anton Bruckner, Johann Strauss I, Johann Strauss II, Jean Sibelius, Jean-Baptiste Lully, and Sergei Prokofiev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 991, Guido of Arezzo ranks 1.  Among people deceased in 1050, Guido of Arezzo ranks 1. After him are Zoë Porphyrogenita, Anund Jacob, Peter, King of Hungary, Ingegerd Olofsdotter of Sweden, Suryavarman I, Herleva, and Einar Thambarskelfir.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Guido of Arezzo ranks 122 out of 5,161. Before him are Brutus the Younger (-85), Sulla (-138), Pope Urban VIII (1568), Agatha of Sicily (235), Pope Pius II (1405), and Gina Lollobrigida (1927). After him are Terence Hill (1939), Pope Adrian II (792), John Bosco (1815), Donato Bramante (1443), Clare of Assisi (1193), and Andrea Palladio (1508).

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Among COMPOSERS In Italy

Among composers born in Italy, Guido of Arezzo ranks 7. Before him are Antonio Vivaldi (1678), Giuseppe Verdi (1813), Giacomo Puccini (1858), Gioachino Rossini (1792), Claudio Monteverdi (1567), and Ennio Morricone (1928). After him are Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632), Gaetano Donizetti (1797), Vincenzo Bellini (1801), Tomaso Albinoni (1671), Domenico Scarlatti (1685), and Antonio Salieri (1750).

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