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Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga

1806 - 1826

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Juan Crisóstomo Jacobo Antonio de Arriaga y Balzola (27 January 1806 – 17 January 1826) was a Spanish Basque composer. He was nicknamed "the Spanish Mozart" after he died, because, like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, he was both a child prodigy and an accomplished composer who died young. They also shared the same first and second baptismal names; and they shared the same birthday (due to both having been born on the feast of St. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga has received more than 108,633 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga is the 367th most popular composer (up from 406th in 2019), the 462nd most popular biography from Spain (up from 492nd in 2019) and the 9th most popular Spanish Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga ranks 367 out of 1,216Before him are Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska, Joseph Martin Kraus, Friedrich von Flotow, György Kurtág, Alfred Newman, and Mieczysław Weinberg. After him are Johann Schein, Martin Agricola, Rodion Shchedrin, Hans Richter, Francesco Gasparini, and Joseph Kosma.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1806, Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga ranks 15Before him are Omar Pasha, William Webb Ellis, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller, Louis III, Grand Duke of Hesse, and Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov. After him are Duchenne de Boulogne, Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play, Charles Gleyre, Antoine Wiertz, Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich, and William, Duke of Brunswick. Among people deceased in 1826, Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga ranks 19Before him are Maria Leopoldina of Austria, Frederica of Baden, Louis-Gabriel Suchet, Nikolay Karamzin, Levin August von Bennigsen, and Johann Elert Bode. After him are Franz Danzi, Clarke Abel, Johann Baptist von Spix, Jean Lafitte, François-Joseph Talma, and Marie-Guillemine Benoist.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga ranks 462 out of 2,932Before him are João da Nova (1460), Andoni Zubizarreta (1961), Juan Prim, 1st Count of Reus (1814), Hisham III of Córdoba (975), Amancio Amaro (1939), and Andrés Nin Pérez (1892). After him are Bermudo II of León (953), Don Juan Manuel (1282), Rafael Alberti (1902), Luis of Spain, Count of Chinchón (1727), Xabi Alonso (1981), and Francisco Rabal (1926).

Among COMPOSERS In Spain

Among composers born in Spain, Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga ranks 9Before him are Manuel de Falla (1876), Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548), Enrique Granados (1867), Nicola Porpora (1686), Jordi Savall (1941), and Antonio Soler (1729). After him are Joaquín Turina (1882), Sebastián Iradier (1809), Federico Mompou (1893), Gaspar Sanz (1640), Vicente Martín y Soler (1754), and Antonio de Cabezón (1510).