COMPOSER

Michele Carafa

1787 - 1872

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Michele Enrico Francesco Vincenzo Aloisio Paolo Carafa di Colobrano (17 November 1787 – 26 July 1872) was an Italian opera composer. He was born in Naples and studied in Paris with Luigi Cherubini. He was Professor of counterpoint at the Paris Conservatoire from 1840 to 1858. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michele Carafa has received more than 30,951 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Michele Carafa is the 893rd most popular composer (up from 900th in 2019), the 2,925th most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,788th in 2019) and the 147th most popular Italian Composer.

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  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.84

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.24

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Michele Carafa ranks 893 out of 1,451. Before him are Philippe Gaubert, Mateo Flecha, Sándor Veress, Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, Gian Carlo Menotti, and Henri Rabaud. After him are Tigran Mansurian, Klaus Huber, Paul Dessau, Hermann Goetz, Václav Tomášek, and Tan Dun.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1787, Michele Carafa ranks 34. Before him are Mathieu Orfila, Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Francisco de Paula Martínez de la Rosa y Berdejo, Alexander Alyabyev, Ninomiya Sontoku, and Nils Gabriel Sefström. After him are Ramón Freire, Sven Nilsson, José María Bocanegra, Joaquín Mosquera, Manuel Dorrego, and François Sudre. Among people deceased in 1872, Michele Carafa ranks 44. Before him are Kamehameha V, Carl Jaenisch, Princess Feodora of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Horace Greeley, Princess Amalia of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, and Martin Ohm. After him are Benjamin Briggs, George Catlin, Friedrich Welwitsch, Ion Heliade Rădulescu, Andrew Smith, and Michel Carré.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Michele Carafa ranks 2,925 out of 5,161. Before him are Toni Servillo (1959), Adolfo Baloncieri (1897), Gian Carlo Menotti (1911), Eugenio Calabi (1923), Marcia Furnilla (1), and Raffaele Farina (1933). After him are Dorotea Bucca (1360), Franca Rame (1929), Nicola Canali (1874), Prince Francis Joseph of Battenberg (1861), Giovanni Lanza (1810), and Filippo Buonaccorsi (1437).

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Among COMPOSERS In Italy

Among composers born in Italy, Michele Carafa ranks 147. Before him are Marco da Gagliano (1582), Piero Piccioni (1921), Giovanni Artusi (1540), Emanuele d'Astorga (1680), Valentino Fioravanti (1764), and Gian Carlo Menotti (1911). After him are Antonio Bertali (1605), Alberto Franchetti (1860), Carlo Rustichelli (1916), Jacopo da Bologna (1340), Errico Petrella (1813), and Francesco Araja (1709).

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