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Alessandro Stradella

1643 - 1682

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Antonio Alessandro Boncompagno Stradella (Bologna, 3 July 1643 – Genoa, 25 February 1682) was an Italian composer of the middle Baroque period. He enjoyed a dazzling career as a freelance composer, writing on commission, and collaborating with distinguished poets, producing over three hundred works in a variety of genres. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alessandro Stradella is the 375th most popular composer (down from 284th in 2019), the 1,532nd most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,291st in 2019) and the 72nd most popular Italian Composer.

Alessandro Stradella is most famous for his opera "La morte d'Orfeo" which is about the death of Orpheus, and his "Missa pro Defunctis" which is a requiem mass.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Alessandro Stradella ranks 375 out of 1,451. Before him are Mykola Lysenko, Alfredo Casella, Jean-François Le Sueur, Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, John Dunstaple, and Ernest Ansermet. After him are Grażyna Bacewicz, Toru Takemitsu, Josef Rheinberger, Alexander Agricola, Louis Durey, and Nikolai Medtner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1643, Alessandro Stradella ranks 8. Before him are Ahmed II, Afonso VI of Portugal, Charles V, Duke of Lorraine, Philippe, Chevalier de Lorraine, Mary of Jesus de León y Delgado, and René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle. After him are Johann Adam Reincken, Ilona Zrínyi, Jean Chardin, Henri Jules, Prince of Condé, Fran Krsto Frankopan, and Jean-Baptiste Denys. Among people deceased in 1682, Alessandro Stradella ranks 11. Before him are Evliya Çelebi, Feodor III of Russia, Johann Joachim Becher, Avvakum, Jacob Kettler, and Baldassare Longhena. After him are Thomas Browne, Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Jean Picard, Yohannes I, Gu Yanwu, and Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Alessandro Stradella ranks 1,532 out of 5,161. Before him are Stefano di Giovanni (1392), Bruno Pontecorvo (1913), Marco Materazzi (1973), Carlo Blasis (1797), Carlo Maratta (1625), and Paolo Boi (1528). After him are Coluccio Salutati (1331), Henry Benedict Stuart (1725), Irnerius (1050), Antipope Eulalius (310), Antipope Constantine II (710), and Felix of Cantalice (1515).

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Among COMPOSERS In Italy

Among composers born in Italy, Alessandro Stradella ranks 72. Before him are Francesco Durante (1684), Riccardo Broschi (1698), Bernardo Pasquini (1637), Leonardo Leo (1694), Franco Alfano (1875), and Alfredo Casella (1883). After him are Ferdinando Carulli (1770), Giovanni Bottesini (1821), Giovanni Legrenzi (1626), Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco (1675), Adriano Banchieri (1568), and Domenico Zipoli (1688).

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