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Luigi Cherubini

1760 - 1842

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Maria Luigi Carlo Zenobio Salvatore Cherubini ( KERR-uu-BEE-nee; Italian: [luˈiːdʒi keruˈbiːni]; 8 or 14 September 1760 – 15 March 1842) was an Italian Classical and Romantic composer. His most significant compositions are operas and sacred music. Beethoven regarded Cherubini as the greatest living composer of his era. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Luigi Cherubini has received more than 382,675 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia. Luigi Cherubini is the 88th most popular composer (up from 92nd in 2019), the 397th most popular biography from Italy (up from 411th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Italian Composer.

Luigi Cherubini is most famous for his operas. He was a composer and a conductor.

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  • 380k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 70.27

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 49

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 12.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Luigi Cherubini ranks 88 out of 1,451. Before him are Alban Berg, Carl Czerny, Josquin des Prez, Nino Rota, George Gershwin, and François Couperin. After him are Luigi Boccherini, Pietro Mascagni, Olivier Messiaen, Guillaume Du Fay, Alma Mahler, and César Franck.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1760, Luigi Cherubini ranks 4. Before him are Hokusai, Pope Leo XII, and Henri de Saint-Simon. After him are Camille Desmoulins, Jiaqing Emperor, Alexandre de Beauharnais, François-Noël Babeuf, Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, Johan Gadolin, August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, and Jan Ladislav Dussek. Among people deceased in 1842, Luigi Cherubini ranks 3. Before him are Stendhal, and Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun. After him are Bernardo O'Higgins, Constanze Mozart, Clemens Brentano, Jules Dumont d'Urville, Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans, Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi, Dominique Jean Larrey, Pierre Cambronne, and Peter Fendi.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Luigi Cherubini ranks 397 out of 5,161. Before him are Gianni Versace (1946), Pope Liberius (310), Pope Marinus II (932), Pope John II (470), Pope Benedict VII (910), and Annibale Carracci (1560). After him are Ancus Marcius (-675), Pope John XI (910), Simone Martini (1284), Pope Benedict IX (1012), Pope Silverius (490), and Luigi Boccherini (1743).

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Among COMPOSERS In Italy

Among composers born in Italy, Luigi Cherubini ranks 17. Before him are Tomaso Albinoni (1671), Domenico Scarlatti (1685), Antonio Salieri (1750), Alessandro Scarlatti (1660), Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710), and Nino Rota (1911). After him are Luigi Boccherini (1743), Pietro Mascagni (1863), Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857), Jacopo Peri (1561), Carlo Gesualdo (1566), and Giulio Caccini (1551).

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