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Antonio Salieri

1750 - 1825

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Antonio Salieri (18 August 1750 – 7 May 1825) was an Italian composer and teacher of the classical period. He was born in Legnago, south of Verona, in the Republic of Venice, and spent his adult life and career as a subject of the Habsburg monarchy. Salieri was a pivotal figure in the development of late 18th-century opera. As a student of Florian Leopold Gassmann, and a protégé of Christoph Willibald Gluck, Salieri was a cosmopolitan composer who wrote operas in three languages. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Antonio Salieri is the 42nd most popular composer (up from 53rd in 2019), the 183rd most popular biography from Italy (up from 212th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Italian Composer.

Antonio Salieri is most famous for being the composer of many operas and symphonies, including "The Marriage of Figaro."

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Antonio Salieri ranks 42 out of 1,451. Before him are Béla Bartók, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Domenico Scarlatti, Camille Saint-Saëns, Johann Strauss I, and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. After him are Gaetano Donizetti, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Orlande de Lassus, Tomaso Albinoni, Modest Mussorgsky, and Anton Bruckner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1750, Antonio Salieri ranks 1. After him are Ali Pasha of Ioannina, Letizia Ramolino, Caroline Herschel, Frederick Augustus I of Saxony, Archduchess Maria Johanna Gabriela of Austria, Tipu Sultan, Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Heshen, Francisco de Miranda, Adam Afzelius, and Murad Bey. Among people deceased in 1825, Antonio Salieri ranks 3. Before him are Jacques-Louis David, and Alexander I of Russia. After him are Daniel D. Tompkins, Henri de Saint-Simon, Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria, Eli Whitney, Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies, Pauline Bonaparte, Henry Fuseli, Jean Paul, and Dmitry Bortniansky.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Antonio Salieri ranks 183 out of 5,161. Before him are Pope Celestine III (1106), Pope Boniface IX (1350), Pope Gregory VIII (1100), Pope Innocent VII (1339), Luigi Galvani (1737), and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (-89). After him are Pope Urban III (1200), Gaetano Donizetti (1797), Marcello Mastroianni (1924), Andrea del Verrocchio (1435), Andrea Palladio (1508), and Fra Angelico (1400).

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Among COMPOSERS In Italy

Among composers born in Italy, Antonio Salieri ranks 8. Before him are Giuseppe Verdi (1813), Giacomo Puccini (1858), Gioachino Rossini (1792), Claudio Monteverdi (1567), Ennio Morricone (1928), and Domenico Scarlatti (1685). After him are Gaetano Donizetti (1797), Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632), Tomaso Albinoni (1671), Guido of Arezzo (991), Vincenzo Bellini (1801), and Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710).

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