COMPOSER

Umberto Giordano

1867 - 1948

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Umberto Menotti Maria Giordano (28 August 1867 – 12 November 1948) was an Italian composer, mainly of operas. His best-known work in that genre was Andrea Chénier (1896). He was born in Foggia in Apulia, southern Italy, and studied under Paolo Serrao at the Conservatoire of Naples. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Umberto Giordano has received more than 180,614 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia. Umberto Giordano is the 195th most popular composer (up from 200th in 2019), the 948th most popular biography from Italy (down from 914th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular Italian Composer.

Umberto Giordano is most famous for composing the opera "Andrea Chénier".

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  • 180k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 63.39

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.28

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.30

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Umberto Giordano ranks 195 out of 1,451. Before him are Karol Szymanowski, Andrea Luchesi, Francis Lai, Witold Lutosławski, Anna Maria Mozart, and Johann Stamitz. After him are François-Joseph Gossec, Philippe de Vitry, Johann Joachim Quantz, Ludwig Minkus, Niels Gade, and Eugène Ysaÿe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1867, Umberto Giordano ranks 25. Before him are Pierre Bonnard, Enrique Granados, Stanley Baldwin, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Ignacy Mościcki, and Irving Fisher. After him are Hector Guimard, Sakichi Toyoda, Eugen Sandow, Alexander Parvus, Margaret Brown, and Rubén Darío. Among people deceased in 1948, Umberto Giordano ranks 31. Before him are Maria Mandl, Arthur Liebehenschel, Kurt Schwitters, John J. Pershing, Georges Bernanos, and Hugo Boss. After him are D. W. Griffith, Iwane Matsui, Pompeu Fabra, Kantarō Suzuki, Emil Ludwig, and Yoshiko Kawashima.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Umberto Giordano ranks 948 out of 5,161. Before him are Antipope Anacletus II (1090), Cesare Pavese (1908), Ibycus (-600), Carlo Crivelli (1430), Servilia (-104), and Nicola Amati (1596). After him are Franco Modigliani (1918), Pietro Bembo (1470), Nina Ricci (1883), Ambrogio Spinola, 1st Marquess of Balbases (1569), Gabriele Falloppio (1523), and Filippo Maria Visconti (1392).

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Among COMPOSERS In Italy

Among composers born in Italy, Umberto Giordano ranks 43. Before him are Francesca Caccini (1587), Luciano Berio (1925), Francesco Cavalli (1602), Giuseppe Torelli (1658), Leonardo Vinci (1690), and Andrea Luchesi (1741). After him are Alessandro Marcello (1673), Niccolò Piccinni (1728), Francesco Landini (1325), Maurizio Pollini (1942), Andrea Gabrieli (1533), and Nicola Porpora (1686).

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