COMPOSER

Pietro Mascagni

1863 - 1945

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Pietro Mascagni (7 December 1863 – 2 August 1945) was an Italian composer primarily known for his operas. His 1890 masterpiece Cavalleria rusticana caused one of the greatest sensations in opera history and single-handedly ushered in the Verismo movement in Italian dramatic music. While it was often held that Mascagni, like Ruggero Leoncavallo, was a "one-opera man" who could never repeat his first success, L'amico Fritz and Iris have remained in the repertoire in Europe (especially Italy) since their premieres.Mascagni wrote fifteen operas, an operetta, several orchestral and vocal works, and also songs and piano music. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pietro Mascagni has received more than 427,442 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). Pietro Mascagni is the 90th most popular composer, the 406th most popular biography from Italy (down from 389th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Italian Composer.

Pietro Mascagni is most famous for his opera, Cavalleria Rusticana.

Memorability Metrics

  • 430k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 70.14

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 61

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.76

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.01

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Pietro Mascagnis by language

Over the past year Pietro Mascagni has had the most page views in the with 68,737 views, followed by English (47,433), and Japanese (14,597). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Ido (79.60%), Belarusian (73.22%), and Piedmontese (69.19%)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Pietro Mascagni ranks 90 out of 1,451. Before him are Josquin des Prez, Nino Rota, George Gershwin, François Couperin, Luigi Cherubini, and Luigi Boccherini. After him are Olivier Messiaen, Guillaume Du Fay, Alma Mahler, César Franck, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Marc-Antoine Charpentier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, Pietro Mascagni ranks 10. Before him are Pierre de Coubertin, Swami Vivekananda, Paul Signac, Konstantin Stanislavski, Arthur Henderson, and Gabriele D'Annunzio. After him are Henry van de Velde, David Lloyd George, Constantine P. Cavafy, Carlos I of Portugal, George Herbert Mead, and Vladimir Vernadsky. Among people deceased in 1945, Pietro Mascagni ranks 20. Before him are Subhas Chandra Bose, Thomas Hunt Morgan, Magda Goebbels, Paul Valéry, Heinrich Müller, and Wilhelm Canaris. After him are George S. Patton, Irma Grese, Pierre Laval, Johan Huizinga, David Lloyd George, and Vidkun Quisling.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Pietro Mascagni ranks 406 out of 5,161. Before him are Simone Martini (1284), Pope Benedict IX (1012), Pope Silverius (490), Luigi Boccherini (1743), Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863), and Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1519). After him are Pope Innocent IV (1195), Alessandro Cagliostro (1743), Petronius Maximus (396), Antonio Meucci (1808), Philip Neri (1515), and Pope Leo VII (900).

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Among COMPOSERS In Italy

Among composers born in Italy, Pietro Mascagni ranks 19. Before him are Antonio Salieri (1750), Alessandro Scarlatti (1660), Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710), Nino Rota (1911), Luigi Cherubini (1760), and Luigi Boccherini (1743). After him are Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857), Jacopo Peri (1561), Carlo Gesualdo (1566), Giulio Caccini (1551), Gregorio Allegri (1582), and Muzio Clementi (1752).

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