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Amilcare Ponchielli

1834 - 1886

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Amilcare Ponchielli (US: , Italian: [aˈmilkare poŋˈkjɛlli]; 31 August 1834 – 16 January 1886) was an Italian opera composer, best known for his opera La Gioconda. He was married to the soprano Teresina Brambilla. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Amilcare Ponchielli is the 189th most popular composer (down from 173rd in 2019), the 921st most popular biography from Italy (down from 840th in 2019) and the 39th most popular Italian Composer.

Amilcare Ponchielli is most famous for his ballet "La Gioconda."

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Among composers, Amilcare Ponchielli ranks 189 out of 1,451. Before him are Michael Haydn, Baldassare Galuppi, Vincenzo Galilei, Reinhold Glière, Louis Spohr, and Ferruccio Busoni. After him are Johann Adolph Hasse, Giovanni Bononcini, Dmitry Kabalevsky, Stanisław Moniuszko, Samuel Barber, and Michael Praetorius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1834, Amilcare Ponchielli ranks 14. Before him are Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, William Morris, Samuel Pierpont Langley, Léon Walras, Carl Bloch, and August Weismann. After him are Jan Neruda, Vasily Perov, Charles Spurgeon, Aleksis Kivi, Johann Philipp Reis, and Norodom of Cambodia. Among people deceased in 1886, Amilcare Ponchielli ranks 8. Before him are Franz Liszt, Ramakrishna, Ludwig II of Bavaria, Leopold von Ranke, Chester A. Arthur, and John Deere. After him are Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust, Asher Brown Durand, Alexander Ostrovsky, Ilya Ulyanov, Prince Louis, Count of Trani, and Lydia Koidula.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Amilcare Ponchielli ranks 921 out of 5,161. Before him are Lorenzo di Credi (1459), Italo Gariboldi (1879), Sandro Pertini (1896), Carla Bruni (1967), Giuseppe Guarneri (1698), and Pietro Lorenzetti (1280). After him are Bruttia Crispina (164), Giovanni Pisano (1248), Ambrogio Spinola, 1st Marquess of Balbases (1569), Michele Placido (1946), Teia (550), and Titus Labienus (-100).

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Among COMPOSERS In Italy

Among composers born in Italy, Amilcare Ponchielli ranks 39. Before him are Luciano Berio (1925), Giuseppe Torelli (1658), Francesco Cavalli (1602), Baldassare Galuppi (1706), Vincenzo Galilei (1520), and Ferruccio Busoni (1866). After him are Giovanni Bononcini (1670), Niccolò Piccinni (1728), Luigi Nono (1924), Vittorio Monti (1868), Leonardo Vinci (1690), and Umberto Giordano (1867).

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