COMPOSER

Andrea Falconieri

1580 - 1656

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Andrea Falconieri (1585 or 1586 – 1656), also known as Falconiero, was an Italian composer and lutenist from Naples. He resided in Parma from 1604 until 1614, and later moved to Rome, and then back to his native Naples, where in 1647 he became maestro di cappella at the royal chapel. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Andrea Falconieri is the 674th most popular composer (down from 626th in 2019), the 2,416th most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,260th in 2019) and the 114th most popular Italian Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Andrea Falconieri ranks 674 out of 1,451. Before him are Wilhelm Kienzl, Elfrida Andrée, François-Joseph Fétis, Sergei Lyapunov, Myroslav Skoryk, and Antônio Carlos Gomes. After him are Jacob van Eyck, Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, Francesco Canova da Milano, Claude Balbastre, Hans Rott, and Adolf Wiklund.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1580, Andrea Falconieri ranks 16. Before him are Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, Cristóvão Ferreira, Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger, Augusta of Denmark, António de Andrade, and Bogislaw XIV, Duke of Pomerania. After him are Gaspar de Borja y Velasco, Pierre Vernier, Matei Basarab, Julius Schiller, Daniël Heinsius, and Carlo Contarini. Among people deceased in 1656, Andrea Falconieri ranks 11. Before him are Thomas Francis, Prince of Carignano, James Ussher, Francisco Herrera the Elder, Ottavio Piccolomini, Thomas Fincke, and Laurent de La Hyre. After him are Dirck Hals, Christian II, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg, Massimo Stanzione, Carlo Contarini, Roberto de Nobili, and Georg Calixtus.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Andrea Falconieri ranks 2,416 out of 5,161. Before him are Geminianus (312), Lazare Ponticelli (1897), Anne Marie Martinozzi (1637), Luca Cambiaso (1527), Publius Decius Mus (-400), and Giovanni Pascoli (1855). After him are Giovanni Battista Ramusio (1485), Gaspard Dughet (1613), Antonio Bazzini (1818), Francesco Canova da Milano (1497), Adela of Flanders (1065), and Frank Lentini (1889).

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Among COMPOSERS In Italy

Among composers born in Italy, Andrea Falconieri ranks 114. Before him are Giuseppe Sammartini (1695), Antonio Sacchini (1730), Isabella Leonarda (1620), Ludwig Thuille (1861), Marc'Antonio Ingegneri (1535), and Ildebrando Pizzetti (1880). After him are Francesco Canova da Milano (1497), Giovanni Battista Vitali (1632), Orazio Vecchi (1550), Riccardo Zandonai (1883), Domenico Dragonetti (1763), and Bartolomeo Tromboncino (1470).

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