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Maddalena Casulana

1544 - 1590

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Maddalena Casulana (c. 1544 – c. 1590) was an Italian composer, lutenist and singer of the late Renaissance. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maddalena Casulana has received more than 87,741 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Maddalena Casulana is the 503rd most popular composer (up from 573rd in 2019), the 1,924th most popular biography from Italy (up from 2,046th in 2019) and the 97th most popular Italian Composer.

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  • 20

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  • 5.22

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  • 2.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Maddalena Casulana ranks 503 out of 1,451Before her are Erwin Schulhoff, Kaija Saariaho, Agostino Steffani, John Adams, Guillaume Lekeu, and Vasily Kalinnikov. After her are Aleksandra Pakhmutova, Ethel Smyth, Alexandre Desplat, Alexandre Tansman, Princess Cecilia of Sweden, and Peter Cornelius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1544, Maddalena Casulana ranks 10Before her are Ismihan Sultan, Gevherhan Sultan, Renata of Lorraine, Maria Temryukovna, Şah Sultan, and Anna of Saxony. After her are Gillis van Coninxloo, Giovanni Botero, Sigismund Rákóczi, Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Dorothea Susanne of Simmern, and Giovanni Maria Nanino. Among people deceased in 1590, Maddalena Casulana ranks 14Before her are Bernardino de Sahagún, Francis Walsingham, Charles de Bourbon, Marietta Robusti, Frans Hogenberg, and Giambattista Benedetti. After her are François Hotman, Leone Leoni, Archduchess Magdalena of Austria, Catherine of Ricci, André Thevet, and Hōjō Ujimasa.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Maddalena Casulana ranks 1,924 out of 5,161Before her are Archduke Johann Salvator of Austria (1852), Gio Ponti (1891), Giorgio Chiellini (1984), Giambattista Benedetti (1530), Fabio Testi (1941), and Albert Azzo II, Margrave of Milan (1009). After her are Nanni di Banco (1380), Perctarit (645), Princess Maria Antonietta of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1851), Francesco Botticini (1446), Massimo D'Alema (1949), and Paulinus II of Aquileia (740).

Among COMPOSERS In Italy

Among composers born in Italy, Maddalena Casulana ranks 97Before her are Antonio Maria Abbatini (1595), Remo Giazotto (1910), Antonio Sacchini (1730), Giuseppe Sarti (1729), Gian Francesco Malipiero (1882), and Agostino Steffani (1654). After her are Giuseppe Gazzaniga (1743), Francesco Maria Veracini (1690), Luigi Rossi (1597), Pietro Nardini (1722), Riccardo Drigo (1846), and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895).