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Riccardo Drigo

1846 - 1930

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Riccardo Eugenio Drigo (ru. Риккардо Эудженьо Дриго) (30 June 1846 – 1 October 1930) was an Italian composer of ballet music and Italian opera, a theatrical conductor, and a pianist. Drigo is most noted for his long career as kapellmeister and Director of Music of the Imperial Ballet of Saint Petersburg, Russia, for which he composed music for the original works and revivals of the choreographers Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Riccardo Drigo has received more than 79,380 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Riccardo Drigo is the 560th most popular composer (up from 570th in 2019), the 2,004th most popular biography from Italy (up from 2,019th in 2019) and the 99th most popular Italian Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Riccardo Drigo ranks 560 out of 1,216Before him are Carmine Coppola, Johann David Heinichen, Jonathan Larson, Arno Babajanian, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, and Pierre Henry. After him are Bálint Bakfark, Aloysia Weber, Antonio Maria Abbatini, Pancho Vladigerov, François Devienne, and Johann Nikolaus Forkel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1846, Riccardo Drigo ranks 39Before him are Hermann Paul, Svetozar Marković, Antonio Abetti, Jambyl Jabayev, Boutros Ghali, and Vyacheslav von Plehve. After him are Julius Maggi, Lars Magnus Ericsson, Abdallahi ibn Muhammad, Count Kasimir Felix Badeni, Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau, and Prince Gaetan, Count of Girgenti. Among people deceased in 1930, Riccardo Drigo ranks 44Before him are José Carlos Mariátegui, Theodor Nöldeke, Adolf Engler, Eduard Meyer, Emil Krebs, and Rafael Merry del Val. After him are Frank P. Ramsey, Infante Antonio, Duke of Galliera, Alois Jirásek, Carl Panzram, Eric Lemming, and Paul Émile Appell.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Riccardo Drigo ranks 2,004 out of 4,668Before him are Victor Amadeus I, Prince of Carignano (1690), Nicoletta Braschi (1960), Publius Clodius Thrasea Paetus (100), Prospero Colonna (1452), Mariangela Melato (1941), and Margaret of Durazzo (1347). After him are William II, Duke of Apulia (1095), Antonio Di Natale (1977), Marcus Antonius Antyllus (-46), Felice Romani (1788), Carlo Rainaldi (1611), and Contessina de' Bardi (1390).

Among COMPOSERS In Italy

Among composers born in Italy, Riccardo Drigo ranks 99Before him are Agostino Steffani (1654), Pietro Nardini (1722), Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895), Giuseppe Sarti (1729), Domenico Dragonetti (1763), and Orazio Vecchi (1550). After him are Antonio Maria Abbatini (1595), Maddalena Casulana (1544), Marc'Antonio Ingegneri (1535), Tommaso Traetta (1727), Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli (1752), and Francesco Canova da Milano (1497).