991 - 1050
Guido of Arezzo (also Guido Aretinus, Guido Aretino, Guido da Arezzo, Guido Monaco, Guido d'Arezzo, Guido Monaco Pomposiano, or Guy of Arezzo also Guy d'Arezzo) (991/992 – after 1033) was an Italian music theorist of the Medieval era. He is regarded as the inventor of modern staff notation that replaced neumatic notation. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Guido of Arezzo has received more than 386,075 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Guido of Arezzo is the 54th most popular composer, the 183rd most popular biography from Italy (up from 195th in 2019) and the 12th 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, Guido of Arezzo ranks 54 out of 1,228. Before him are Gaetano Donizetti, Erik Satie, Carl Orff, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Vincenzo Bellini, and Georg Philipp Telemann. After him are Anton Bruckner, Domenico Scarlatti, Aram Khachaturian, Edward Elgar, Henry Purcell, and Alexander Borodin.
1797 - 1848
HPI: 81.08
Rank: 48
1866 - 1925
HPI: 80.95
Rank: 49
1895 - 1982
HPI: 80.75
Rank: 50
1683 - 1764
HPI: 80.71
Rank: 51
1801 - 1835
HPI: 80.53
Rank: 52
1681 - 1767
HPI: 80.48
Rank: 53
991 - 1050
HPI: 80.44
Rank: 54
1824 - 1896
HPI: 80.41
Rank: 55
1685 - 1757
HPI: 80.40
Rank: 56
1903 - 1978
HPI: 80.28
Rank: 57
1857 - 1934
HPI: 80.28
Rank: 58
1659 - 1695
HPI: 80.01
Rank: 59
1833 - 1887
HPI: 80.00
Rank: 60
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, Herleva, and Suryavarman I.
991 - 1050
HPI: 80.44
Rank: 1
978 - 1050
HPI: 79.00
Rank: 2
1008 - 1050
HPI: 72.59
Rank: 3
1011 - 1050
HPI: 72.18
Rank: 4
1001 - 1050
HPI: 69.93
Rank: 5
1003 - 1050
HPI: 64.54
Rank: 6
1000 - 1050
HPI: 63.96
Rank: 7
Among people born in Italy, Guido of Arezzo ranks 183 out of 4,088. Before him are Giovanni Bellini (1430), Pope Gregory XV (1554), Vincenzo Bellini (1801), Pliny the Younger (61), Pope Paul IV (1476), and Pope Martin V (1369). After him are Luchino Visconti (1906), Domenico Scarlatti (1685), Vitellius (15), Pope Nicholas V (1397), Didius Julianus (133), and Rita of Cascia (1381).
1430 - 1516
HPI: 80.59
Rank: 177
1554 - 1623
HPI: 80.57
Rank: 178
1801 - 1835
HPI: 80.53
Rank: 179
61 - 113
HPI: 80.50
Rank: 180
1476 - 1559
HPI: 80.48
Rank: 181
1369 - 1431
HPI: 80.48
Rank: 182
991 - 1050
HPI: 80.44
Rank: 183
1906 - 1976
HPI: 80.44
Rank: 184
1685 - 1757
HPI: 80.40
Rank: 185
15 - 69
HPI: 80.40
Rank: 186
1397 - 1455
HPI: 80.40
Rank: 187
133 - 193
HPI: 80.40
Rank: 188
1381 - 1457
HPI: 80.38
Rank: 189
Among composers born in Italy, Guido of Arezzo ranks 12. Before him are Antonio Salieri (1750), Claudio Monteverdi (1567), Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632), Tomaso Albinoni (1671), Gaetano Donizetti (1797), and Vincenzo Bellini (1801). After him are Domenico Scarlatti (1685), Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710), Alessandro Scarlatti (1660), Nino Rota (1911), Luigi Boccherini (1743), and Jacopo Peri (1561).
1750 - 1825
HPI: 82.96
Rank: 6
1567 - 1643
HPI: 82.24
Rank: 7
1632 - 1687
HPI: 81.83
Rank: 8
1671 - 1751
HPI: 81.65
Rank: 9
1797 - 1848
HPI: 81.08
Rank: 10
1801 - 1835
HPI: 80.53
Rank: 11
991 - 1050
HPI: 80.44
Rank: 12
1685 - 1757
HPI: 80.40
Rank: 13
1710 - 1736
HPI: 79.52
Rank: 14
1660 - 1725
HPI: 78.76
Rank: 15
1911 - 1979
HPI: 78.34
Rank: 16
1743 - 1805
HPI: 77.96
Rank: 17
1561 - 1633
HPI: 76.98
Rank: 18