COMPOSER

Luigi Rossi

1597 - 1653

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Luigi Rossi (c. 1597 – 20 February 1653) was an Italian Baroque composer. Born in Torremaggiore, a small town near Foggia, in the ancient kingdom of Naples, at an early age he went to Naples where he studied music with the Franco-Flemish composer Jean de Macque, organist of the Santa Casa dell’Annunziata and maestro di cappella to the Spanish viceroy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Luigi Rossi has received more than 80,139 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Luigi Rossi is the 533rd most popular composer (down from 479th in 2019), the 1,989th most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,785th in 2019) and the 100th most popular Italian Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Luigi Rossi ranks 533 out of 1,451Before him are Hervé, Boris Lyatoshinsky, Michael Kamen, Ivan Zajc, François-Joseph Fétis, and Edgard Varèse. After him are Paul Bowles, Louis Couperin, George Antheil, Vicente Martín y Soler, Manuel Ponce, and Maxim Berezovsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1597, Luigi Rossi ranks 8Before him are Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate, Electress of Brandenburg, Giovanni Battista Hodierna, Martin Opitz, Francesco Barberini, François Duquesnoy, and Senhime. After him are Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, Pieter Jansz. Saenredam, Justus Sustermans, Johann Liss, Honoré II, Prince of Monaco, and Salomon de Bray. Among people deceased in 1653, Luigi Rossi ranks 6Before him are Artemisia Gentileschi, Wolfgang Wilhelm, Count Palatine of Neuburg, Maarten Tromp, Adriaen van Utrecht, and Gabriel Naudé. After him are Robert Filmer, Simon de Vlieger, Théophraste Renaudot, Jan Wildens, Claudius Salmasius, and Lucrezia Marinella.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Luigi Rossi ranks 1,989 out of 5,161Before him are Nicoletta Braschi (1960), Gaius Suetonius Paulinus (10), Andrea Sacchi (1599), Antonio Vivarini (1440), Emerentiana (250), and Nino Castelnuovo (1936). After him are Gian Giorgio Trissino (1478), Quintus Servilius Caepio (-200), Cesare Mori (1871), Pietro Mennea (1952), Paolo Sorrentino (1970), and Joseph Freinademetz (1852).

Among COMPOSERS In Italy

Among composers born in Italy, Luigi Rossi ranks 100Before him are Giuseppe Sarti (1729), Gian Francesco Malipiero (1882), Agostino Steffani (1654), Maddalena Casulana (1544), Giuseppe Gazzaniga (1743), and Francesco Maria Veracini (1690). After him are Pietro Nardini (1722), Riccardo Drigo (1846), Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895), Ferdinando Paer (1771), Tommaso Traetta (1727), and Isabella Leonarda (1620).