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Ottorino Respighi

1879 - 1936

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Ottorino Respighi ( reh-SPEE-ghee, US also rə-, Italian: [ottoˈriːno reˈspiːɡi]; 9 July 1879 – 18 April 1936) was an Italian composer, violinist, teacher, and musicologist and one of the leading Italian composers of the early 20th century. His compositions range over operas, ballets, orchestral suites, choral songs, chamber music, and transcriptions of Italian compositions of the 16th–18th centuries, but his best known and most performed works are his three orchestral tone poems which brought him international fame: Fountains of Rome (1916), Pines of Rome (1924), and Roman Festivals (1928). Respighi was born in Bologna to a musical and artistic family. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ottorino Respighi has received more than 726,737 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia. Ottorino Respighi is the 149th most popular composer (up from 154th in 2019), the 727th most popular biography from Italy (down from 724th in 2019) and the 29th most popular Italian Composer.

Ottorino Respighi is most famous for his orchestral suites for The Pines of Rome and The Fountains of Rome.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Ottorino Respighi ranks 149 out of 1,451. Before him are Jacob Obrecht, Paul Dukas, Kurt Weill, Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, John Barry, and Darius Milhaud. After him are Adrian Willaert, Enrique Granados, Iannis Xenakis, Pierre Boulez, Michel Legrand, and Ryuichi Sakamoto.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Ottorino Respighi ranks 19. Before him are Owen Willans Richardson, Symon Petliura, Milutin Milanković, Hans Luther, Rudolf von Laban, and Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. After him are Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted, Ramana Maharshi, Shunroku Hata, Sarojini Naidu, Francis Peyton Rous, and Joseph Wirth. Among people deceased in 1936, Ottorino Respighi ranks 25. Before him are Elsa Einstein, G. K. Chesterton, Premchand, José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Louis Blériot, and Buenaventura Durruti. After him are Hans von Seeckt, Karl Kraus, Charles Nicolle, Andrija Mohorovičić, Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, and Róbert Bárány.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Ottorino Respighi ranks 727 out of 5,161. Before him are Francis II of the Two Sicilies (1836), Giulia Farnese (1474), William II of Sicily (1153), Fausto Coppi (1919), Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus (-229), and Gaius Octavius (-100). After him are Carlo Azeglio Ciampi (1920), Renata Scotto (1934), Manfred, King of Sicily (1232), Paolo Borsellino (1940), Alexius of Rome (400), and Boniface I, Marquess of Montferrat (1150).

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Among COMPOSERS In Italy

Among composers born in Italy, Ottorino Respighi ranks 29. Before him are Giulio Caccini (1551), Gregorio Allegri (1582), Muzio Clementi (1752), Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583), Domenico Cimarosa (1749), and Giovanni Gabrieli (1557). After him are Vincenzo Galilei (1520), Ferruccio Busoni (1866), Giovanni Paisiello (1740), Vittorio Monti (1868), Pietro Locatelli (1695), and Baldassare Galuppi (1706).

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