COMPOSER

Nicola Porpora

1686 - 1768

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Nicola (or Niccolò) Antonio Giacinto Porpora (17 August 1686 – 3 March 1768) was an Italian composer and teacher of singing of the Baroque era, whose most famous singing students were the castrati Farinelli and Caffarelli. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nicola Porpora has received more than 191,067 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia. Nicola Porpora is the 221st most popular composer (down from 165th in 2019), the 1,045th most popular biography from Italy (down from 198th in 2019) and the 49th most popular Italian Composer.

Nicola Porpora is most famous for being a composer of opera in the 18th century.

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  • 190k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 62.51

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.75

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.41

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Nicola Porpora ranks 221 out of 1,451. Before him are Francesco Landini, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Maurizio Pollini, Lili Boulanger, Andrea Gabrieli, and Ion Ivanovici. After him are Ernest Chausson, Jerry Goldsmith, Johann Ambrosius Bach, Henri Vieuxtemps, Gaspare Spontini, and John Field.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1686, Nicola Porpora ranks 2. Before him is Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit. After him are Benedetto Marcello, Charles, Duke of Berry, Hans Egede, Senesino, Hakuin Ekaku, Jean-Baptiste Oudry, Vasily Tatishchev, Adolphus Frederick III, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Antoine de Jussieu, and Johann Georg Christian, Prince of Lobkowicz. Among people deceased in 1768, Nicola Porpora ranks 5. Before him are Marie Leszczyńska, Canaletto, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, and Laurence Sterne. After him are Georg Brandt, Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, Hermann Samuel Reimarus, Francesco Maria Veracini, Louis Alexandre, Prince of Lamballe, Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, and Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Nicola Porpora ranks 1,045 out of 5,161. Before him are Ercole I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara (1431), Ettore Scola (1931), Romuald (951), Frank Costello (1891), Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici (1667), and Vincenzo Viviani (1622). After him are Bartolomeo Ammannati (1511), Stanislao Cannizzaro (1826), Sebastian Cabot (1484), Oscar Luigi Scalfaro (1918), Giovanni Messe (1883), and Luigi Cadorna (1850).

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Among COMPOSERS In Italy

Among composers born in Italy, Nicola Porpora ranks 49. Before him are Umberto Giordano (1867), Alessandro Marcello (1673), Niccolò Piccinni (1728), Francesco Landini (1325), Maurizio Pollini (1942), and Andrea Gabrieli (1533). After him are Gaspare Spontini (1774), Giacomo Carissimi (1605), Luigi Nono (1924), Antonio Caldara (1670), Benedetto Marcello (1686), and Francesco Durante (1684).

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