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Domenico Cimarosa

1749 - 1801

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Domenico Cimarosa (Italian: [doˈmeːniko tʃimaˈrɔːza] ; 17 December 1749 – 11 January 1801) was an Italian composer of the Neapolitan School and of the Classical period. He wrote more than eighty operas, the best known of which is Il matrimonio segreto (1792); most of his operas are comedies. He also wrote instrumental works and church music. Cimarosa was principally based in Naples, but spent some of his career in various other parts of Italy, composing for the opera houses of Rome, Venice, Florence and elsewhere. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Domenico Cimarosa is the 109th most popular composer (up from 131st in 2019), the 546th most popular biography from Italy (up from 618th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Italian Composer.

Domenico Cimarosa is most famous for his operas, such as Il matrimonio segreto.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Domenico Cimarosa ranks 109 out of 1,451. Before him are Joaquín Rodrigo, Francis Poulenc, Arthur Honegger, Léo Delibes, Giacomo Meyerbeer, and Alma Mahler. After him are Mikhail Glinka, Zoltán Kodály, Mily Balakirev, Muzio Clementi, Francisco Tárrega, and Paul Hindemith.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1749, Domenico Cimarosa ranks 7. Before him are Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Edward Jenner, Nicolas Appert, Christian VII of Denmark, and Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau. After him are Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe, Yolande de Polastron, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Daniel Rutherford, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, and Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre. Among people deceased in 1801, Domenico Cimarosa ranks 3. Before him are Paul I of Russia, and Novalis. After him are Archduke Maximilian Francis of Austria, Benedict Arnold, Johann Kaspar Lavater, Carl Stamitz, Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia, Andrea Luchesi, Archduchess Maria Clementina of Austria, Infanta Maria Josefa of Spain, and Charles Louis, Hereditary Prince of Baden.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Domenico Cimarosa ranks 546 out of 5,161. Before him are Emilio Segrè (1905), Pope Agapetus II (900), Theocritus (-315), Lorenzo Valla (1407), Giovanni Falcone (1939), and Anna Magnani (1908). After him are Calpurnia (-77), Francesco I Sforza (1401), Gaius Julius Caesar (-135), Giulietta Masina (1921), Roberto Baggio (1967), and Francis I of the Two Sicilies (1777).

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Among COMPOSERS In Italy

Among composers born in Italy, Domenico Cimarosa ranks 22. Before him are Luigi Cherubini (1760), Luigi Boccherini (1743), Nino Rota (1911), Jacopo Peri (1561), Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857), and Pietro Mascagni (1863). After him are Muzio Clementi (1752), Carlo Gesualdo (1566), Giulio Caccini (1551), Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583), Giovanni Gabrieli (1557), and Giovanni Paisiello (1740).

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