991 - 1050
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. Perhaps the most significant European writer on music between Boethius and Johannes Tinctoris, after the former's De institutione musica, Guido's Micrologus was most widely distributed medieval treatise on music.Biographical information on Guido is only available from two contemporary documents; though they give limited background, a basic understanding of his life can be unraveled. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Guido of Arezzo has received more than 538,864 page views. His biography is available in 57 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2019). Guido of Arezzo is the 42nd most popular composer (up from 54th in 2019), the 142nd most popular biography from Italy (up from 183rd in 2019) and the 8th 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.
Page Views (PV)
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
Languages Editions (L)
Effective Languages (L*)
Coefficient of Variation (CV)
Among composers, Guido of Arezzo ranks 42 out of 1,216. Before him are Sergei Prokofiev, Johann Strauss I, Modest Mussorgsky, Jean Sibelius, Béla Bartók, and Camille Saint-Saëns. After him are Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Gaetano Donizetti, Tomaso Albinoni, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Carl Maria von Weber, and Erik Satie.
1891 - 1953
HPI: 76.67
Rank: 36
1804 - 1849
HPI: 76.60
Rank: 37
1839 - 1881
HPI: 76.35
Rank: 38
1865 - 1957
HPI: 76.20
Rank: 39
1881 - 1945
HPI: 76.16
Rank: 40
1835 - 1921
HPI: 76.03
Rank: 41
991 - 1050
HPI: 75.43
Rank: 42
1844 - 1908
HPI: 75.40
Rank: 43
1797 - 1848
HPI: 75.19
Rank: 44
1671 - 1751
HPI: 75.16
Rank: 45
1632 - 1687
HPI: 75.10
Rank: 46
1786 - 1826
HPI: 75.05
Rank: 47
1866 - 1925
HPI: 74.99
Rank: 48
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, Peter, King of Hungary, Anund Jacob, Ingegerd Olofsdotter of Sweden, Herleva, and Suryavarman I.
991 - 1050
HPI: 75.43
Rank: 1
978 - 1050
HPI: 69.52
Rank: 2
1011 - 1050
HPI: 64.52
Rank: 3
1008 - 1050
HPI: 64.06
Rank: 4
1001 - 1050
HPI: 61.17
Rank: 5
1003 - 1050
HPI: 55.03
Rank: 6
1000 - 1050
HPI: 53.00
Rank: 7
Among people born in Italy, Guido of Arezzo ranks 142 out of 4,668. Before him are Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (1869), Nerva (30), Andrea Palladio (1508), Pope Clement VIII (1536), Andrea del Verrocchio (1435), and Pope Pius VII (1742). After him are Pope Urban VII (1521), Pope Pius VIII (1761), Paolo Veronese (1528), Luca Pacioli (1445), Pope Alexander VIII (1610), and Pope Pius II (1405).
1869 - 1947
HPI: 75.56
Rank: 136
30 - 98
HPI: 75.55
Rank: 137
1508 - 1580
HPI: 75.54
Rank: 138
1536 - 1605
HPI: 75.48
Rank: 139
1435 - 1488
HPI: 75.47
Rank: 140
1742 - 1823
HPI: 75.45
Rank: 141
991 - 1050
HPI: 75.43
Rank: 142
1521 - 1590
HPI: 75.40
Rank: 143
1761 - 1830
HPI: 75.39
Rank: 144
1528 - 1588
HPI: 75.39
Rank: 145
1445 - 1517
HPI: 75.31
Rank: 146
1610 - 1691
HPI: 75.30
Rank: 147
1405 - 1464
HPI: 75.30
Rank: 148
Among composers born in Italy, Guido of Arezzo ranks 8. Before him are Giuseppe Verdi (1813), Giacomo Puccini (1858), Gioachino Rossini (1792), Claudio Monteverdi (1567), Ennio Morricone (1928), and Antonio Salieri (1750). After him are Gaetano Donizetti (1797), Tomaso Albinoni (1671), Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632), Domenico Scarlatti (1685), Vincenzo Bellini (1801), and Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710).
1813 - 1901
HPI: 86.57
Rank: 2
1858 - 1924
HPI: 81.74
Rank: 3
1792 - 1868
HPI: 80.22
Rank: 4
1567 - 1643
HPI: 79.43
Rank: 5
1928 - 2020
HPI: 78.13
Rank: 6
1750 - 1825
HPI: 78.00
Rank: 7
991 - 1050
HPI: 75.43
Rank: 8
1797 - 1848
HPI: 75.19
Rank: 9
1671 - 1751
HPI: 75.16
Rank: 10
1632 - 1687
HPI: 75.10
Rank: 11
1685 - 1757
HPI: 74.29
Rank: 12
1801 - 1835
HPI: 74.28
Rank: 13
1710 - 1736
HPI: 72.37
Rank: 14