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Vincenzo Galilei

1520 - 1591

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Vincenzo Galilei (3 April 1520 - 2 July 1591) was an Italian lutenist, composer, and music theorist. His children included the astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei and the lute virtuoso and composer Michelagnolo Galilei. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vincenzo Galilei has received more than 219,661 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia. Vincenzo Galilei is the 156th most popular composer (down from 155th in 2019), the 752nd most popular biography from Italy (down from 739th in 2019) and the 30th most popular Italian Composer.

Galileo was most famous for his work with the telescope. He was the first person to use a telescope to study the stars and planets.

Memorability Metrics

  • 220k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 65.22

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Vincenzo Galileis by language

Over the past year Vincenzo Galilei has had the most page views in the with 21,871 views, followed by Spanish (10,855), and Italian (8,642). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Basque (56.57%), Esperanto (55.86%), and Macedonian (30.63%)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Vincenzo Galilei ranks 156 out of 1,451. Before him are Adrian Willaert, Enrique Granados, Iannis Xenakis, Pierre Boulez, Michel Legrand, and Ryuichi Sakamoto. After him are Michael Haydn, Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, Ferruccio Busoni, Komitas, Siegfried Wagner, and Giovanni Paisiello.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1520, Vincenzo Galilei ranks 4. Before him are Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Pope Sixtus V, and Sigismund II Augustus. After him are Barbara Radziwiłł, Koca Sinan Pasha, Christophe Plantin, William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, Matthias Flacius, Alessandro Farnese, Thoinot Arbeau, and Dorothea of Denmark, Electress Palatine. Among people deceased in 1591, Vincenzo Galilei ranks 5. Before him are Pope Innocent IX, Pope Gregory XIV, John of the Cross, and Aloysius Gonzaga. After him are Veronica Franco, Dmitry of Uglich, Sen no Rikyū, Christian I, Elector of Saxony, Jacobus Gallus, Jost Amman, and Luis de León.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Vincenzo Galilei ranks 752 out of 5,161. Before him are Poliziano (1454), Giovanni Schiaparelli (1835), Rosso Fiorentino (1494), Luca della Robbia (1399), Emilio Segrè (1905), and Atia (-85). After him are Domenico Modugno (1928), Lino Ventura (1919), Charles Edward Stuart (1720), Marie Joséphine of Savoy (1753), Curzio Malaparte (1898), and Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe (1749).

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Among COMPOSERS In Italy

Among composers born in Italy, Vincenzo Galilei ranks 30. Before him are Gregorio Allegri (1582), Muzio Clementi (1752), Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583), Domenico Cimarosa (1749), Giovanni Gabrieli (1557), and Ottorino Respighi (1879). After him are Ferruccio Busoni (1866), Giovanni Paisiello (1740), Vittorio Monti (1868), Pietro Locatelli (1695), Baldassare Galuppi (1706), and Amilcare Ponchielli (1834).

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