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Alfredo Catalani

1854 - 1893

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Alfredo Catalani (19 June 1854 – 7 August 1893) was an Italian operatic composer. He is best remembered for his operas Loreley (1890) and La Wally (1892). La Wally was composed to a libretto by Luigi Illica, and features Catalani's most famous aria "Ebben? Ne andrò lontana." This aria, sung by American soprano Wilhelmenia Fernandez, was at the heart of Jean-Jacques Beineix's 1981 film Diva. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alfredo Catalani is the 473rd most popular composer (down from 371st in 2019), the 1,825th most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,566th in 2019) and the 86th most popular Italian Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Alfredo Catalani ranks 473 out of 1,451. Before him are Joseph Martin Kraus, Friedrich von Flotow, Antonio Maria Abbatini, Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska, Étienne Méhul, and Johann Gottfried Walther. After him are Robert Stolz, Rodion Shchedrin, Vítězslav Novák, Adolf von Henselt, Oscar Straus, and Paolo Tosti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1854, Alfredo Catalani ranks 33. Before him are Alphonse Allais, Georg Kerschensteiner, Jean-Marie Guyau, Hubert Lyautey, Thomas R. Marshall, and Otto Sverdrup. After him are Lady Randolph Churchill, Edward Carson, Jacek Malczewski, Charles Algernon Parsons, Alois Lexa von Aehrenthal, and Charles Webster Leadbeater. Among people deceased in 1893, Alfredo Catalani ranks 22. Before him are Benjamin Butler, Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle, Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Abner Doubleday, Leland Stanford, and Ferenc Erkel. After him are George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, José Zorrilla, Heinrich Göbel, Adolf I, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, Ford Madox Brown, and Alexander Cunningham.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Alfredo Catalani ranks 1,825 out of 5,161. Before him are Lorenzo Baldisseri (1940), Bartolomeo Manfredi (1582), Julius Firmicus Maternus (400), Massimo D'Alema (1949), Roger Borsa (1060), and Luigi Comencini (1916). After him are Maria Teresa Felicitas d'Este (1726), Leonard of Port Maurice (1676), Salvatore Giuliano (1922), Altichiero (1330), Peter II, Count of Savoy (1203), and Moschus (-200).

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Among COMPOSERS In Italy

Among composers born in Italy, Alfredo Catalani ranks 86. Before him are Agostino Steffani (1654), Giovanni Pacini (1796), Bruno Maderna (1920), Stefano Landi (1587), Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (1876), and Antonio Maria Abbatini (1595). After him are Paolo Tosti (1846), Claudio Merulo (1533), Giuseppe Sarti (1729), Gian Francesco Malipiero (1882), Riz Ortolani (1926), and Ferdinando Paer (1771).

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