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Pasquale Anfossi

1727 - 1797

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Pasquale Anfossi (5 April 1727 – February 1797) was an Italian opera composer. Born in Taggia, Republic of Genoa, he studied with Niccolò Piccinni and Antonio Sacchini, and worked mainly in London, Venice and Rome. He wrote more than 80 operas, both opera seria and opera buffa, although he concentrated on church music, especially oratorios, during his last years. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pasquale Anfossi has received more than 36,397 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Pasquale Anfossi is the 582nd most popular composer (up from 615th in 2019), the 1,631st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,756th in 2019) and the 21st most popular British Composer.

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  • 1.62

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Pasquale Anfossi ranks 582 out of 1,451. Before him are Thomas Arne, Georg Joseph Vogler, Julius Benedict, Tielman Susato, Albert Ketèlbey, and Jean-Joseph de Mondonville. After him are Paul Lincke, Hermann Scherchen, Veljo Tormis, Malcolm Arnold, Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, and Johann Ludwig Krebs.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1727, Pasquale Anfossi ranks 17. Before him are Luis of Spain, Count of Chinchón, Florimond Claude, Comte de Mercy-Argenteau, Prince Karl Anton August of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne, Ercole III d'Este, Duke of Modena, and Tommaso Traetta. After him are Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, Jean-André Deluc, Philibert Commerson, Horatio Gates, Ernest Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen, and James Wolfe. Among people deceased in 1797, Pasquale Anfossi ranks 15. Before him are Lazare Hoche, Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg, Vilna Gaon, Joseph Wright of Derby, Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony, and Horace Walpole. After him are Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec, Olaudah Equiano, Wang Zhenyi, Molla Panah Vagif, and Ivan Shuvalov.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Pasquale Anfossi ranks 1,631 out of 8,785. Before him are Matthew Festing (1949), Philippa Foot (1920), Charles Macintosh (1766), Chris Martin (1977), Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield (1859), and Malo (487). After him are Frank P. Ramsey (1903), P. F. Strawson (1919), Princess Mary of Great Britain (1723), Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst (1717), William Etty (1787), and Arnold Toynbee (1852).

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Among COMPOSERS In United Kingdom

Among composers born in United Kingdom, Pasquale Anfossi ranks 21. Before him are Frederick Delius (1862), William Walton (1902), John Blow (1649), Neville Marriner (1924), Thomas Arne (1710), and Albert Ketèlbey (1875). After him are Malcolm Arnold (1921), Jeremiah Clarke (1674), Orlando Gibbons (1583), William Boyce (1711), John Bull (1562), and Arthur Sullivan (1842).

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