COMPOSER

Sylvano Bussotti

1931 - 2021

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Sylvano Bussotti (1 October 1931 – 19 September 2021) was an Italian composer of contemporary classical music, also a painter, set and costume designer, opera director and manager, writer and academic teacher. His compositions employ graphic notation, which has often created special problems of interpretation. He was known as a composer for the stage. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sylvano Bussotti has received more than 104,666 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Sylvano Bussotti is the 1,078th most popular composer (down from 773rd in 2019), the 3,397th most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,528th in 2019) and the 171st most popular Italian Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Sylvano Bussotti ranks 1,078 out of 1,451Before him are Edvard Mirzoyan, Tristan Murail, Arif Malikov, Emilio Arrieta, Leonard Rosenman, and Jean Gilbert. After him are Jean Langlais, Ignaz Schuppanzigh, Henri Pousseur, Toivo Kuula, Semen Hulak-Artemovsky, and Carter Burwell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Sylvano Bussotti ranks 321Before him are Jean Philippe, Kenneth H. Cooper, Viktor Tsaryov, Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat, Ahmed Laraki, and Janwillem van de Wetering. After him are Robert Stephens, Olja Ivanjicki, Mike Parkes, Ingrid van Bergen, Lonnie Donegan, and Hennadiy Udovenko. Among people deceased in 2021, Sylvano Bussotti ranks 328Before him are Ivan Toplak, Art Metrano, Frederic Rzewski, Anatoliy Zlenko, Susana Higuchi, and Masayuki Uemura. After him are Chuck Close, Una Stubbs, Anatoly Chukanov, Donald Kagan, Jeannette Altwegg, and Nikolai Slichenko.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Sylvano Bussotti ranks 3,397 out of 5,161Before him are Mario Rigoni Stern (1921), Angelo Di Livio (1966), Lamberto Leoni (1953), Pier Andrea Saccardo (1845), Bartolomeo della Gatta (1448), and Francesco Quinn (1963). After him are Marcus Ummidius Quadratus Annianus (138), Francesco Maselli (1930), Paolo Sardi (1934), Sisto Badalocchio (1585), Alessandro Antonelli (1798), and Gualtiero Bassetti (1942).

Among COMPOSERS In Italy

Among composers born in Italy, Sylvano Bussotti ranks 171Before him are Franco Faccio (1840), Alessandro Grandi (1586), Lorenzo Perosi (1872), Gioseffo Guami (1542), Alessandro Striggio (1540), and Marcello Abbado (1926). After him are Francesco Antonio Vallotti (1697), Dario Marianelli (1963), Detto Mariano (1937), Cecilia Seghizzi (1908), and Ezio Bosso (1971).