COMPOSER

Ruggero Leoncavallo

1857 - 1919

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Ruggero (or Ruggiero) Leoncavallo (UK: LAY-on-kav-AL-oh, US: LAY-ohn-kə-VAH-loh, -⁠kah-, Italian: [rudˈdʒɛːro leˌoŋkaˈvallo]; 23 April 1857 – 9 August 1919) was an Italian opera composer and librettist. Throughout his career, Leoncavallo produced numerous operas and songs but it is his 1892 opera Pagliacci that remained his lasting contribution, despite attempts to escape the shadow of his greatest success. Today Pagliacci, continues to be his most famous opera and one of the most popular and frequently performed works in the operatic repertory. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ruggero Leoncavallo has received more than 342,636 page views. His biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). Ruggero Leoncavallo is the 97th most popular composer, the 447th most popular biography from Italy (up from 451st in 2019) and the 20th most popular Italian Composer.

Ruggero Leoncavallo is most famous for his opera "Pagliacci."

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  • 340k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 69.59

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 60

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 12.32

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Ruggero Leoncavallo ranks 97 out of 1,451. Before him are Olivier Messiaen, Guillaume Du Fay, Alma Mahler, César Franck, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Marc-Antoine Charpentier. After him are Léo Delibes, John Cage, Arvo Pärt, Jacopo Peri, Francis Poulenc, and Zoltán Kodály.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, Ruggero Leoncavallo ranks 14. Before him are Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Alfonso XII of Spain, Henrik Pontoppidan, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, and William Howard Taft. After him are Alfred Binet, Theo van Gogh, Eugen Bleuler, Alexander of Battenberg, Paul Doumer, and Axel Munthe. Among people deceased in 1919, Ruggero Leoncavallo ranks 10. Before him are Ernst Haeckel, Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Gojong of Korea, Emil Fischer, Karl Liebknecht, and Emiliano Zapata. After him are Carl Larsson, John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, Andrew Carnegie, Alfred Werner, Yakov Sverdlov, and William Crookes.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Ruggero Leoncavallo ranks 447 out of 5,161. Before him are Lucky Luciano (1897), Pope Nicholas III (1215), Pope Benedict VI (900), Andrea Bocelli (1958), Pope Lando (900), and Pope Paul I (700). After him are Pope Nicholas IV (1227), Fabio Capello (1946), Pope Gregory II (669), Umberto Nobile (1885), Andrea del Sarto (1486), and Pope Symmachus (460).

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Among COMPOSERS In Italy

Among composers born in Italy, Ruggero Leoncavallo ranks 20. Before him are Alessandro Scarlatti (1660), Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710), Nino Rota (1911), Luigi Cherubini (1760), Luigi Boccherini (1743), and Pietro Mascagni (1863). After him are Jacopo Peri (1561), Carlo Gesualdo (1566), Giulio Caccini (1551), Gregorio Allegri (1582), Muzio Clementi (1752), and Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583).

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